by Latoya Peterson
Well, I’m a little late with this announcement.
Okay – a lot late. Let’s just say I gave them a couple months to get their feet wet.
I am please to announce that our fabulous contributor and literary superstar Thea Lim is stepping up to bat as the Deputy Editrix of the blog. [...]

by Latoya Peterson
SXSW 2009 was great, and our panel on “Can Social Media End Racism” went over well. (If you missed it, the link leads to the overview and where you can download the podcast.)
Now, the voting for 2010 is open, and I pitched a new panel:

Social Justice and Video Games
Organizer:
Latoya [...]

(Sorry, these should have run on Friday!)
Study seeking biracial, multiracial, and mixed heritage individuals
One of our regular readers is doing a study. Amanda writes:
My name is Amanda Rivera and I am a doctoral student of clinical-community psychology at the University of La Verne. I am currently working on my dissertation, under the supervision of [...]

The Jewish Community Stands with Domestic Workers: The Shalom Bayit Public Forum

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal announce “The Jewish Community Stands with Domestic Workers: The Shalom Bayit Public Forum,” to be held on Thursday, April 23, 2009 @ 7:00PM at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, located [...]

by Latoya Peterson
Coming soon to a SXSW near you – attack of the POCs!
Okay, well, it isn’t quite that dramatic.
(Yet.)
But if you’re in town for the festival, feel free to come by and check out our panel, “Can Social Media End Racism“:
Can Social Media End Racism?
Room 8
Sunday, March 15th
11:30 am – [...]

The Asian Educators Alliance (AsEA) is proud to announce its first ever High School Student Conference!!!
The Asian Educators Alliance (AsEA), an affinity organization for Asian/Pacific Islanders (API) is a national organization committed to creating opportunities for API teachers and school staff to meet, network and support one another. For the past 5 years we have [...]

by Latoya Peterson

I blame Carmen.
She has decided Racialicious needs to be on Twitter.
So now I’m on Twitter. Well, technically we. The official Racialicious Twitter feed is now live.
Add us if you’d like.
(And why no, I have no idea how I am going to communicate in 140 characters when our normal blog [...]

by Latoya Peterson
I’m a little busy. I got some book submissions due, some articles due, some speeches to prep, some conference calls to host, and some other events to schedule and do in addition to my day job and my regular duties here.
I’ve also got an apprentice comment moderator in training.
So imagine my surprise [...]

We generally don’t do meet ups here at Racialicious (if you saw the deleted comments, you would see why), but I pop into some of the Happy Hours that happen with other blogs. I headed out to a Feministing one back in the summer, and since then Ann, Miriam, and I have kicked around [...]

Jessica Yee dropped me an email with this message:
Dear friends, colleagues, and allies in the struggle,
As many of you already know, the ban on abortion is back on the ballot for the upcoming November 5th election in South Dakota. This is a very scary time, not only because we already defeated the ban 60% to [...]