Author Archives: Jack Stephens

Pecah Lobang – Muslim Transexual Workers in Malaysia

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Jack Stephens

This is a documentary by my wonderful friend (whom I had the honor of meeting in a mass media and law class which has developed into what will obviously be a life long friendship) Poh Si Teng.

Posted in Gender and the Body, Gender and the Economy, International issues, Sex work, porn, etc, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 1 Comment

Bristol Palin's Choice

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Jack Stephens
Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights | 3 Comments

An Open Letter on Behalf of Amy Goodman

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Katrina vanden Heuvel blogs:
We join with you in condemning the arrest and harassment of Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and members of her crew on the first day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. These arrests were a transparent attempt to intimidate journalists and an assault on our constitution.
Goodman was arrested for […] Continue reading →

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Racist mother goose and grimm cartoon

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Angry Asian Man blogs:

Kimchi Mamas first blogged about this a couple of weeks ago… What kind of messed up nonsense is this? This Mother Goose and Grimm comic strip is a couple of weeks old, but dude, what the hell? Come on! Really? They really had to go there with the idiotic […] Continue reading →

Posted in Race, racism and related issues, Syndicated feeds | 15 Comments

On Being Radical

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Julian blogs:
Radical means open: to new understandings, to new perspectives, to new awareness, and the valuing of self-examination and critique. White Men’s Conservatism and White Men’s Liberalism are closed systems of thought the boundaries of which their ideologues refuse to acknowledge, identify, or name. Radicalism, as a social-political perspective, here means not closed. It means […] Continue reading →

Posted in Race, racism and related issues, Syndicated feeds | 2 Comments

On being transgender

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Mia, at Black Looks, blogs:
My name is Mia Nikasimo. As a volunteer for Changing Attitudes at the Lambeth Conference I found myself in an opportune position to reflect from a translesbian (i.e. a transsexual woman who identifies as a lesbian not to be confused with above or beyond “lesbians,” or a transgender man) standpoint on […] Continue reading →

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Wind that Shakes the Golden Barley

Posted on August 30, 2008 by Jack Stephens

T’was hard the woeful words to frame To break the ties that bound us. But harder still to bear the shame of foreign chains around us. And so I said the mountain glen I’ll meet at morning early. And I’ll … Continue reading →

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White Privilege, Office Culture, and Subversive Black Identities

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Margari Aziza Hill blogs on white privilege in society:
Some individuals have striven so hard to be accepted and to succeed in majority white environments may find themselves transformed with little vestiges of their original self. Others, I know, feel disingenuous as they wear different masks for different people. It is interesting how this plays out […] Continue reading →

Posted in Race, racism and related issues, Syndicated feeds | 16 Comments

The Case of Structural Critique

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Ta-Nehisi blogs:
So my beef with these guys is not that they make structural critique, it’s that they seem bound to a set of strategies that just haven’t gotten us anywhere. Again, I need to hear about something else besides Affirmative Action and a vague notion of social justice. And then I’d like to see it […] Continue reading →

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My Slanted Eyes are Beautiful

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Eugene Cho, pastor of Quest Church in Seattle, blogs about the Spanish Basketball team’s picture in where they slant their eyes as an “affectionate gesture” toward their Chinese hosts:
I’m in no position to judge any of the individuals or players involved as racists.  I like to give people the benefit of the doubt and I […] Continue reading →

Posted in Race, racism and related issues, Syndicated feeds | 22 Comments