An apology came later with and the infamous, “I’m not a racist,” disclaimer. RIGHT. Technology + Highschool + Racism + the likes Imus/Isaiah Washington behavior = Irresponsible and irrevocable damage to young Asian-Americans For links to the lame apology and more, go to and give a h/t to The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum
Author: Lisa
The Desire for ReFraming
With a psychology background, it is a privileged ability to “reframe” a situation. Reframing is simply the dismantling of one context and rebuilding another. Reframing is often used in counseling. You reframe a sentence and say it back to a client to put it in a different, hopefully more positive or uplifting tone. For example, […]
Happy Birthday to A Womyn’s Ecdysis
A Womyn’s Ecdysis is one year old. That one year has changed my life. Oh, how trite that sounds! Let me provide evidence. BeforeWavering in writer’s confidenceAloneVisions without beamsStrong, but without convictionIntimidatedDocile AfterCertain I have something to contribute to this world and I indeed will contributeMet and keep in touch with fabulous WOC bloggers around […]
LIVE BLOGGING from…the BEACH
Traveling around so much is draining all my energy, forgive the lack of insight and sporadic postings that is to come this week. 48 hours after the AMC conference in Detroit, I loaded up a University car and took off for St. Charles, Illinois for the NWSA conference. Saturday, I flew to Norfolk, VA to […]
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Here are some shots of the crowd and panel for the Bridge tribute. The marvelous of the evening could not be caputured, accurately.
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Tribute panel to “This Bridge Called My Back” Daisy Hernandez AnaLouise Keating Maria del Carmen Ochoa veronica precious bohanan, leftcamil willliams, right Tonight held the session I had been waiting for with curiosity. A Tribute Panel, Bridge Inscriptions: Radical Women of Color Envision – Pasts, Presents, Futures. Basically, it was a worship session for This […]
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The 2007 NWSA keynote speaker was Sandra Cisneros, a Chicana writer who bases her writing in her life, personal relationships, and Latin@ culture. Her poetry seductive, her prose inquisitive into family secrecy, Cisneros spoke for nearly three and a half hours. In the span of over three hours, she spanned topics of women of color […]
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I only took notes for the first 10 minutes of this session. I have much to write about these particular hours, which I will post in a separate piece. Creating Conversations to Dismantle Racism and White Privilege in Our Women’s Centers and the NWSA Women’s Centers Committee Utilizing vignettes from The Way Home, taping of […]
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These are my notes, at times hard to follow, from my first session. My style for this session was to record the comments of both the panelists and participants and letting my mind (read in bold) go where it felt called. So my thoughts unspoken are in bold and the rest are the discussion points. […]
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Not that I am one to complain, but in Detroit, I was in a singular bedroom dorm, suite style, with NO comforts of home. Hey, I enjoyed it and I loved the accessibility it gave me to Blackamazon next door and Fabi a few floors away, among other awesome WOC. But, here in St. Charles, […]