Cambodia Calling – Business Competition in Cambodia
I had explained to Sipha that people who pay piece rate can sell the bags cheaper and make a profit, because they do not have fixed overhead costs, such as salaries, the rent for the workshop, sewing machines, electricity etc etc. Bloom is a social enterprise and I want [...]

What About Our Daughters?: Dunbar Village Teens Still Wilding Out– Attack on 3-Year Old baby
“This past week the tyranny of violent teenagers returned to Dunbar Village. There were two separate attacks in less than a week. Once victim was a 3 year old boy.”
(tags: crime race)

TransGriot: Repeat After Me: All Black Transwomen AREN’T Hookers
“I don’t [...]

by Latoya Peterson

It’s three a.m.
I’m fucking wired.
I fell down the rabbit hole after watching the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight.
So, I’ve been commissioned to do a review of this movie, so I can’t quite discuss it here yet until I figure out what’s going in the article. But…I’m a fan girl. And [...]

by Latoya Peterson

So, now I am curious. When I made a comment about my life being one big PoC party on this thread, I got back a response that I didn’t anticipate. A few people (on the thread and on BFPs thread) expressed the desire to belong to a PoC community in real [...]

by Latoya Peterson
For some strange reason, I’ve found myself in the multiplex more times in the last week than I have in the last couple months. I caught Wall-E and Wanted, and I am heading toward The Dark Knight this weekend. (Hancock is still being debated by my friends who fall into two camps [...]

Salon.com – Five Things – “Ex diplomat: Teen sex OK abroad”
“An ex-diplomat convicted of having sex with teenage girls in the Congo and Brazil and taping the encounters is asking a judge for leniency, claiming that cultural differences in those countries make sex with girls more acceptable.”
(tags: via:jasmine sextourism sexualabuse)

gay persons of color: No minarets [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s podcast about America’s obsession with race. Here’s a rundown of what you’ll find in this episode:
Warning: This episode contains adult content, explicit language, and frank discussions of sexual acts.
Why aren’t there more people of color giving sex-positive sex advice? How have stereotypes about hyper-sexualized non-white people [...]

A Womyn’s Ecdysis: Working Womyn, Dying Womyn
“Many of these women who work overseas are separated from their families, work alone, and are subject to modern day slavery conditions, particularly in the Middle East, Singapore, Japan, and the US.”
(tags: international women gender humanrights)

Our government wants to define some forms of birth control as abortion | Bitch [...]

by Guest Contributor Jafari Sinclaire Allen

Congratulations, Michael Brewer.
I have never walked across the stage on the Morehouse College campus green to receive my degree. On the first day of our indoctrination in 1986, who would have thought I would end up as one of those missing in action four years later? The upperclassman speaking prophesized: [...]

by Latoya Peterson
I am opening a separate thread on this because it is difficult not to ignore. (I just did not want it discussed while discussing the New Yorker cover.)
So, while at a Obama fundraiser, Bernie Mac decided to perform his usual schtick*:

Speaking to about 600 donors at a downtown hotel, Mac joked that [...]

by Latoya Peterson

Last weekend, while channel surfing, I was flying through my channel line up when my remote paused on a program I had heard about for quite some time – Meeting David Wilson.
The MSNBC site describes the documentary:
David Wilson was a 28-year-old African-American man from Newark, New Jersey. He grew up in a tough, [...]

by Latoya Peterson

I was planning to write this post when I began my guest blogging stint over at Feministe. Then I looked around and noticed a lot of smart women were thinking along the same lines, so I decided to go ahead and put this out there.
After all the issues in the feminist blogoshere, [...]

by Guest Contributor AJ Plaid, originally published at The Cruel Secretary

By now, you’ve seen the latest New Yorker cover, with the Obamas garbed in the gear of the latest fear-mongering Americans’ wet dream.
Of course, people at Michelle Obama Watch, Daily Kos, Politico, and other blogs have expressed rightful and righteous outrage over [...]

Is Black the New Bitch? | BlogHer
Great piece on the intersection of racism and sexism in the election. There isn’t one good quote to pull though; the analysis is long and involved. – LDP

French Rapper Could Go To Jail For Anti-France Lyrics / Stereohyped
“A court recently agreed to consider a complaint lodged by a conservative [...]

My thoughts later.
This one is open to the floor – satire or subtly playing to fears?