Bill Maher’s blind spot is white people’s blind spot: When – haha – white people operate out of the place he did tonight on his long-running Real Time show on HBO, they do so out of a privilege that is misunderstood. Maher could not fathom, let alone concede that there are concessions that we – […]
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Lady Loop
The multi-hyphenate dynamo that is Janelle Monáe was set to headline Antebellum, her first starring vehicle, in the spring – but then came COVID-19. Wah, wah. Monáe was to be seen on the big screen as Veronica Henley, a successful author, who finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality – one that is mortifying, discombobulating, […]
Notre-Dame Caught Fire and…
Notre-Dame de Paris caught fire last year, and you wanna know what my memory of that day is? Urgh, the old coot I used to enjoy helping at the grocery store where I used to work, until that day. Him, his blue hat, and his loud and misguided Made-in-the-USA Islamophobia. Old (Caucacious) Man Chad. A […]
Challenges Ahead
I don’t think anyone has ever been better prepared than us at this moment in time to confront the ongoing COVID-19 and racism pandemics head on and without fear, and finally vibe to the global shift of energy and consciousness each has pushed and thrusted upon the planet. We are going to have to lean […]
Pandemic Peeps-Día 86: Roxana Villanueva de Haro
Día 86: La pandemia del COVID-19 que nos tiene en casa por acá, por allá, partout desde marzo – con más y más incertidumbre en unos que en otros lugares – nos está retando. De una u otra manera, claro que sí. En Estados Unidos, los efectos y estragos del pecado original americano – 400 […]
Pandemic Peeps: Massimo Giusti
As the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by a novel and deadly coronavirus that spread out of China during the winter months, has us looking at Month 4 of a generalized global shutdown, a situation that recently showed signs of potential improvement but has now been compounded by America’s racism, I thought I’d check in on some […]
America the Caucacious, the Ugly
Oh, America. If the goal was for us to look at a white man, especially for the world to look at a white American man in uniform, with mistrust and contempt, then mission accomplished, Minneapolis PD. The same goes to every police department in the United States of America that has ever been involved with […]
DiscrimiNation
Discrimination of any form is nothing but an excuse not to do a job well. “We the People…” all have the same Bill of Rights. Why haven’t we all been seeking to form a more perfect union, establish justice, and insure domestic tranquility? Why haven’t we been able to provide for the common defense, promote […]
Three Little Words
“Hello,” “Please,” and “Thanks.” People of the world, these are the three little words ya gotta remember when you go to a grocery store, always and forever, but especially during this pandemic. Look, I know what I’m talking about when I gripe about the casual cultural classism and racism that surprisingly permeates San Francisco, or the […]
Campaña Escolar
Y ahora que el verano se acabó, se acordarán los amigos y las amigas del colegio que ahora tienen hijitos e hijitas, de los 15 años durante los cuales me mariconeaban a diario? O de cómo se jileaban a las chicas, o comentaban sobre su apariencia, o de cómo las puteaban? De cómo armaban las […]
King of Cups 