Mamalicious!

So, not that I needed anything else to play with, but…I now have a Tumblr.  See/hear/feel it.

No, I’m not quoting from the hate-mail bag.  Not that I have a hate-mail bag, but anyway…I’ve just been invited to be a guest blogger for a coupla months at everyone’s favorite “feminist response to pop culture” mag…Bitch. My article “Ain’t I a Mommy” ran as a feature in Bitch‘s Summer 2008 issue. I’ll be [...]

No, I’m not quoting from the hate-mail bag.  Not that I have a hate-mail bag, but anyway…I’ve just been invited to be a guest blogger for a coupla months at everyone’s favorite “feminist response to pop culture” mag…Bitch. My article “Ain’t I a Mommy” ran as a feature in Bitch‘s Summer 2008 issue. I’ll be [...]

I’m feeling kinda blah and cranky. I’m not going to blog about Caylee Anthony, the meter reader’s story, or the fact that I’m afraid that justice will not be served for this little girl. I’m not going to blog about “Katrina’s Hidden Race War”, or the fact that Scott Peterson’s 4th wife just might be [...]

The year: 1989. The place: Yale, The Afro-American Cultural Center (bka “The House”) Me, a freshman, not dancing, just holding up the wall as the song below plays. The album it’s from, along with “Poison” (BBD, “Never trust a big butt and a smile…”), was the soundtrack to my freshman year: Question: Did we really [...]

I’ve always like Donna Brazile, and I’ve recently gotten to know and appreciate Roland Martin’s commentary. But now my affection for them has new roots. Hat tip to Yvette (who hat-tipped What About Our Daughters). I had to sit on my “white people admiring black people’s dancing prowess” racial paranoia for a minute and just [...]

Lorrie wants to know if I can come up with a better word for “plus-sized”.  As someone who used to happily shop at Lane Bryant, and who will likely always be only a few really large meals away from shopping there again, and who thinks that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes–this subject is [...]

Lorrie wants to know if I can come up with a better word for “plus-sized”.  As someone who used to happily shop at Lane Bryant, and who will likely always be only a few really large meals away from shopping there again, and who thinks that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes–this subject is [...]

“…and a Few Other Observations from the Summer o’ Coasters” (in no particular order) 1. I really should have bought stock in the parent companies of Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, and Aeropostale. Every fourth person in the amusement parks (in four different states!) was wearing a shirt from one of these four stores. [...]

“…and a Few Other Observations from the Summer o’ Coasters” (in no particular order) 1. I really should have bought stock in the parent companies of Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, and Aeropostale. Every fourth person in the amusement parks (in four different states!) was wearing a shirt from one of these four stores. [...]