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About me

Gender	Female
Location	East Coast, United States
Introduction	This blog signifies an act of resistance -- resistance to oppression in all forms, particularly, racism, sexism, classism, genderism/transphobia, heterosexism and U.S. neo-imperialism. I hope that this blog becomes a space that validates and privileges the voices of people of color and their white allies.
Interests	Reading, writing, and teaching U.S. History.
Favorite movies	Namesake, Hotel Rwanda, Control Room, Hearts and Minds, Rabbit in the Moon, Matteawan, Rosewood, Malcolm X, Hurricane, Color Purple, Previous, Disappearing Acts, Something New, Frida, North Country, Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, Thelma & Louise, Iron Jawed Angels, Coach Carter, Great Debaters, X-Men 3, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Terminator 2, Sky High, Spider Man 2, Hancock (and, yes, I realize it's a hot mess!), When Harry Met Sally, Chantilly Lace, Running Man (yes, seriously:), Good Will Hunting, The Prestige, Hitch
Favorite music	Rage Against the Machine, Tool, N.W.A., Etta James, Ani Di Franco, Violent Femmes, Utah Phillips, Dead Prez, Public Enemy, Mos Def, Pearl Jam, Jill Scott, Carole King, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Tori Amos, System of A Down, Dashboard Confessional, Led Zepplin, The Doors, Fantasia, Janis Joplin, Anita Baker, Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Temptations
Favorite books	Nell Irvin Painter "The History of White People," Mumia Abhul Jamal "Jailhouse Lawyers," Sioban Sommerville "Queering the Color Line," Khalil Gibran Mohammed "Condemnation of Blackness," Samuel Roberts "Infectious Fear," Fox Butterfield "All God's Children," bell hooks "Killing Rage; Ending Racism" and "Feminism from Margin to Center," Tim Wise's "White Like Me" and "Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White," Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States; 1492 to the present," David Roediger's "Wages of Whiteness," Deborah Gray White's "Arn't I A Woman," Angela Davis' "Women, Race and Class" and "Are Prison's Obsolete?," Leslie Feinberg's "Stone Butch Blues," Kevin Mumford's "Interzones; black/white sex districts in New York and Chicago," Martha Hodes' "White Women, Black Men," Grace Elizabeth Hale's "Making Whiteness," Harriet Washington "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present," Noam Chomsky "9/11," Gloria J. Browne-Marshall "Race, Law, and American Society, 1607 to Present," Kali N. Gross "Colored Amazons," Catherine Clinton & Michelle Gillespie "Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South," Robin Kelley "Race Rebels," Deborah Gray-White "Ar'n't I a Woman? Slave Women in the Antebellum South"