As I mentioned in my previous post, I will be incorporating mapping into my everyday reading and writing practice. Mapping … More
Category: Popular Culture
Thoughts on Margaret Atwood’s “A Handmaid’s Tale”: Part 2
Writing is world-making, and speculative fiction and science fiction are genres of literature that are most telling of the writer’s … More
Thoughts on Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”
So I’m (re)reading Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and wondering what the story would be like if Of-fred had been … More
No, You May Not Touch My Hair: Or Why Antonia Opiah’s Public Art Exhibit Misses the Mark
Antonia Opiah’s “You Can Touch My Hair” public art exhibit features Black women in Union Square, New York City, holding … More
Write Back: Storytelling is a Political Act
“The technology may have changed, but the money still flows the same way: to creators of contracts not creators of … More
Is Your Respectability Bulletproof?: The (bio)Politics of Respectability and the Lives that Matter
I see this image used without irony all over the internet. I don’t think it’s funny. It just reminds me … More
Musings: Why the Framing of “FGM” is Problematic
(Note: By no means is this piece exhaustive. As the title says, it only intends to be a brief musing … More
Why Invisible Child’s #Kony2012 Campaign Gets No Applause From Me
In short: #Kony2012 #StopKony misrepresents N. Uganda, spreads misinformation abt Kony/the LRA, denies Africans’ agency and is imperialist. It raises … More
Forcible Resettlement and Land Grabs in Ethiopia
Cross-linked at Bertelsmann Stiftung – Future Challenges Organization’s Blog Ethiopia is Africa’s biggest aid recipient, and one of Africa’s most food-insecure nations. Simultaneously, … More
The Greater WE: Military Interventions in a Globalized World
Cross-linked at Bertelsmann Stiftung- Future Challenges’ blog Global governance and the movement toward a Greater WE means a protection of global public goods, … More
Land Grabs and Deforestation in South Sudan
[Cross-linked at Bertelsmann Stiftung – Future Challenges’ blog] According to a report issued by the Oakland Institute, hedge fund land grabs … More
“Things That Your Mother Intended To Teach You-But You Learned On Your Own”
As most of my regular readers know, I write. Or rather, I am a writer. Anyway, I have noticed that … More
Remittances to Drought/Famine-Affected Households in Northern Kenya
[Cross-linked at Bertelsmann Stiftung – Future Challenges’ blog] Women and children are the ones most susceptible to the effects of … More
What Does Justice Look Like in the US?: A Few Scattered Thoughts
Growing up as an African-American girl, I was always somewhat aware of the racialized nature of policing in the US. … More
Hunger, Unemployment, & Socio-Economic Inequality in the “Greatest Nation on Earth”
‘Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed … More
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