Race & Culture Shock: 3 Lessons from South Africa
A few years back I was invited to a conversation about race, spirituality, disability and sexuality. I was excited: “Yeah, let’s go there!” I thought.
So there I sat, waiting for the forum to [...]
You v. Structural Racism: Rinku Sen’s Netroots Talk
This past July I went to Netroots where I was honored to attend powerful sessions like “The Resurgence of Black Feminism” and “Ain’t I an Organizer? How Women of Color are the Future [...]
Drunk In Love & Political Imagination: My Week At VONA
Last week I went to Voices of Our Nation, the week long program for emerging writers of color that co-founder Junot Díaz wrote about in his New Yorker article “MFA v. POC.”
A former [...]
Latino Sci-Fi Film Gets a Second Life
Fifteen years ago, when Alex Rivera came up with the premise for his award-winning science fiction film Sleep Dealer, the idea of telecommuting was futuristic. Since then, we have become accustomed to the [...]
More Art. More Justice. More Community.
I’m sitting at a corner window at Pico Taco, a mom-and-pop taqueria that’s been North Oakland for more than a minute. The area’s called Temescal now and somebody’s serving up a new kind [...]
Rest in Power Maya Angelou: Writer, Survivor, former Sex Worker & Icon of Black Female Determination
We lost a phenomenal writer in Maya Angelou. While many will remember her as an inspirational poet, I will always recall her as a groundbreaking memoirist. She was the first writer whose multi-volume autobiography gave [...]
The Five Stages of Diversity
In recent weeks, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed participating in conversations on twitter about diversity in media. This recent round began in March with the publication of a New York Times article by Walter Dean [...]
Blogging, Movement Building, & Online Discrimination
Sometimes it’s best to get the stupid questions out right away. So it was, nine months ago, when I sat down for my first MSC blog development meeting.
“What is a blog?” I asked.
I [...]
