My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Female
Location	Queens, New York
Introduction	No matter how hard I try I can't give up the idea that things will be better for me.
Interests	national news, international news, race, feminism, american history, black history, higher education, american politics, gender, caribbean history, women's politics, rap music, popular culture, rightism, leftism, conservatism, ice cream, Coca-Cola, pepperoni pizza, Yueling beer, fried calamari, merlot, white zinfandel
Favorite movies	Inglorious Basterds, Girl Interrupted
Favorite music	Eminem, M.I.A.
Favorite books	Women Race and Class (Angela Davis), Diary of A Lost Girl (Kola Boof), Right Wing Women (ed. Paola Bachetta & Margaret Power), The Other Side of Paradise (Staceyann Chin), The Reactionary Mind (Corey Robin), Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Fiction From the Antilles (ed. Thomas Glave), The Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James), A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (Elaine Brown), Living For Change (Grace Lee Boggs), Red Azalea (Anchee Min), Native Speaker (Chang Rae Lee), Tangerine (Edward Bloor), The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier), Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli), Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)