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- Thoughts on a Year of Blogging Every Single Day: Part 1December 30 2008
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Maybe you guys noticed? I have posted every single day of 2008!
I started the task as a New Year's resolution. I am terrible at New Year's resolutions--like losing the last ten pounds (I've done that three times, maybe this year will be the fourth!), and cleaning out my closets, and those kinds of things. I really didn't expect that I would follow through with this resolution either--but look at me! With just one more post to go in 2008, barring any calamity, it looks like I've followed through.
At first, I tried to focus my posts on biracial and bicultural identity. That's my Light-skinned-ed Girl thing! And I think I did focus on that topic much of the time--it's the biggest cloud tag for this blog. I had a lot of help with that thanks to President-Elect Obama's ascension. Biracial biracial biracial. Everybody is talking about it now!
But I found that if I was going to write every single day, I had to incorporate all of my me-ness -- the whole writer thing (I know I bored you to death with the whole cow, bug, Wyoming sky thing--but that's all I had), the travel (Cos
- More on Ethnic LegosDecember 21 2008
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Cloudscome at Sandy Cove has got me obsessing about ethnic Legos again. She's posted a great photo of a brown Lego minifig who is NOT a basketball player. With a little digging Ifound a couple more today which I hope I'll be able to add to my collection soon.
Meet these two ethnic Lego minifigs from the Star Wars set: a Bespin Guard and Lando Calrissian. Pretty cool, eh? Hat tip to Minifigs.net.
- Zadi Smith on Black AuthenticityDecember 7 2008
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If I had known about writer Zadi Smith's talk last night at the New York Public Library, I surely would have been there. But, lucky for me (and you), here is the audio recording!
- Obama and Biracial PrideNovember 29 2008
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Check out this Chicago Tribune article about "biracial pride." I was most struck by this statement:
Like Obama, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, 35, a former professor of political science at the University of Chicago who now teaches at Princeton University, identifies herself as black, although her mother is white and her father is African-American. "I was raised to be a black woman with a white mother, like a tall person with a short mother," she says.
It's an interesting analogy but not a completely accurate one. I can't explain why in words. Thoughts?
- On ChildhoodNovember 28 2008
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"So like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us." - Gaston Bachelard