December 2011
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Intervention: Cinderella
Cinderella’s friends and family are concerned that she’s a sex addict.
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On Awkward Black Girl and the CFC →
I didn’t infer the language policing part. In the letter, which I quote in my article, the writers state, “We have seen your responsiveness to the fans of ABG and we hope that by raising this concern you will respond accordingly by not using such language in future episodes.” I’m not sure how to read that other than an exceedingly polite way of asking someone not to say...
“If I were a stand-up comedian, I’d have a joke called The Nigger Test. The...”
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Summer’s Take on our Awkward Black Girl Conversations and in some ways my use of Don Imus’s racist comment towards Black girls as a frame for understanding why transphobic and homophobic language is problematic. Looking back, the Imus moment played a very particular role in how I see my space was...
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On Awkward Black Girl and the CFC →
Why are fictional characters supposed to be decent? Or more decent than we often are? Or, at least, decent in the way that we want them to be?
I’m not defending ABG. What I’m hoping to do is really push back on our expectations of the things we enjoy, and the idea that what we enjoy should reflect ideological positions that are, well, decent. I, for one, really like Disney movies....
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On Awkward Black Girl and the CFC →
A letter appeared on the Crunk Feminist Collective Tumblr site in response, mainly, to this bit of dialogue and some other issues the composers of the letter wanted to bring to the fore.* A mini-internet controversy commenced in response to the response, with commenters calling the writers of the letter too sensitive, too politically correct, too much. In other words, many were just not going to...
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You Got Served →
Rita Dove’s response to Helen Vendler:
The amount of vitriol in Helen Vendler’s review betrays an agenda beyond aesthetics. As a result, she not only loses her grasp on the facts, but her language, admired in the past for its theoretical elegance, snarls and grouses, sidles and roars as it lurches from example to counterexample, misreading intent again and again. Whether propelled by...
