Meet Carmen, Wendi and Latoya in person!
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Wendi and I met Latoya in real life for the very first time this weekend! Since I never fact-checked her life story, I was relieved to find that Latoya was indeed who she said she was, and not a white woman playing make-believe a la Margaret Seltzer. 
The reason we got together was to plan the workshop/panel we’re presenting next weekend in Cambridge, MA at the Women, Action & the Media (WAM!) 2008 conference titled “Can Blogging Help End Racism?”
So if you’re interested in seeing us live, head on over to the WAM! site to register. There will be lots of other very cool bloggers, writers and activists at the conference. And if you’re planning to be there and want to meet up, email us at team@racialicious.com.
I’ll also be on the road later this week, hitting up Virginia and Pennsylvania. If any of you are students at Radford or Swarthmore, I hope you’ll have a chance to sit in on my presentations there.
I’ll be presenting the workshop Not Just Fetishists and Race Traitors: Challenging the Ways We View Interracial Relationships at both schools. Email me at carmen@newdemographic.com if you’d like details.
- Thursday, March 20: Radford University in Radford, VA
- Friday, March 21: Swathmore College in Swarthmore, PA
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Latoya Peterson wrote:
LOL, you’re an ass Carmen!
Unlike Seltzer’s awkward descriptions of “OG Homie” , all my slang is certified and entered into Urban Dictionary.
Posted 18 Mar 2008 at 8:52 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
You’ll always be my OG Homie, Latoya.
Word.
Posted 18 Mar 2008 at 9:01 am ¶
Lynn wrote:
Come to Minnesota! Please?
Thanks!
Posted 18 Mar 2008 at 2:17 pm ¶
Jenn wrote:
I love when people have these confrences at expensive and elite colleges that the masses don’t have access to and claiming they are going to change the world.
Posted 18 Mar 2008 at 3:30 pm ¶
Damien Luxe wrote:
Actually I found WAM really accessible; possibly because of the exorbitant money students pay to go to MIT, my new media collective – made up of working class queer ladies – was funded to bring our DIY New Media seminar there! I say “yay!!!” to WAM and to al the presenters busting ass to get there! Hope to meet you Racialicious folks there!
xo
Posted 19 Mar 2008 at 1:37 pm ¶
meownette wrote:
I second Lynn’s sentiment, but make it California instead!!
Posted 19 Mar 2008 at 3:22 pm ¶