Yesterday Jeff and I took a lovely trip to the MOCA, Pacific Design Center to see the Emory Douglas exhibit currently on display. Emory Douglas was the Black Panther's "Minister of Culture" and was the artist mastermind that created the Panther's iconic posters. Douglas' artwork combined drawings and collages and powerful anti-colonial statements ( Read more... )

The idea that we live in a color blind society and that color blindness is a good thing has been deployed by conservatives to roll back racial justice and ciivil rights efforts and attack affirmative action and other race conscious remedies. Yet in certain contexts like law enforcement, can some of the principles behind color blindness be useful? i ( Read more... )

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as a consequence of me spending the weekend at my mom's without any internet access which is pretty much equivalent to being holed up in siberia, i didn't find out about sir. james brown's passing till very very late last night. although i am very sad to see the godfather go, i can't help remark about how amazing it is that the soulfather lived to ( Read more... )

here are my favorite pictures of yoko in what i think are some of her most impressive and unique fashion statements. forget john, yoko had all the personality.

love that hat and kooky furry jacket and beaded princess shoes:

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i must profess my love for yoko ono's fashions that have typically been very overlooked in favor of typical photos of her and john naked, or dressed all in black, or in white during their Hair Peace days ( Read more... )

UPDATE: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED BUT THIS LINK DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE. I THINK THE N*AT*ION MUST HAVE CAUGHT ON AND REALIZED THAT I WAS SHAMELESSLY E-MAILING THE ARTICLE TO MYSELF AND FRIENDS A WHOLE BUNCH OF TIMES TO DELIBERATELY MAKE IT THE MOST EMAILED ARTICLE. I BET THEY REALIZED WHAT I WAS UP TO AND PUT IN SOME CODE TO MAKE THAT ARTICLE UN- ( Read more... )

the article i wrote for the N*ation on the 10th anniversary of Prop 209, is finally up on the website this week, but unfortunately, you can't read the entire article online because they went and made it for Paid Subscribers only!!!!! DAMNISES ( Read more... )

One of the most memorable Thanksgivings ever, was several years ago when my Filipino family-mom, dad, aunts and uncles, decided to have THIS for our thanksgiving meal, instead of the golden brown turkey that i had expected:


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