But Aretha stood as a corrective to both, and tied them together. Her activist drive proved effective when the money ran dry. Her canon of anthems encompassed racial, gender, and sexual freedom, and properly located the hard knot of women at the center of the movement.
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Whatever-sexual, Rainbows, and Unicorns
Pansexual?! Jeez. No. Done. How about I skip any such info about anyone? Just be you. Not loud or proud, just be you! Toni Hoskin, May 02, 2018 at 03:44PM […]
Intro to Pro-Holocaust Twitter – The Atlantic
I copied this article over a year ago and ran across it in my notes today. It’s an interesting but disturbing piece from The Atlantic magazine. Things you need to know […]
Gojira, Godzilla in the eyes of Japanese atomic era survivors
Godzilla can be hero or villain, protector or destroyer, but he is always the ultimate force of nature upon the face of the Earth. Watch a BBC documentary to place […]
Cultural Appropriation of Hoop Earrings from Whom?!
I was listening to Joe Rogan’s podcast and heard something absurd. Again. There is some current outrage about white ‘cultural appropriation’ of hoop earrings. What? Historically that makes no sense. But […]
process and panic, another young death
This was originally posted a couple of years ago, 2015. It was auto-posted again recently, so here it is again. When I read about Jonathan Ferrell I was shocked. When […]
Che Guevara’s daughter fears Donald Trump’s ‘madness’ could destroy humanity
Visually striking headline. I am intrigued by the epic verbiage. I am instantly amused to see ‘Che Guevara‘ in the same phrase as ‘Donald Trump‘ with ‘madness‘. World/PTI New Dehli Oct, 08 […]
The Preamble in Constitutional Interpretation
I was creating a short post with the Preamble of the US Constitution for my ESL site. An essay came up in my search results: THE PREAMBLE’S SIGNIFICANCE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL […]
National Priorities, American style
“When a country places more importance on sports than on academic achievement, its decline is inevitable…” “Until we get our collective head out of our ass and treat teachers and […]
the only American not on Earth on 9/11
Let’s take this day to remember the sacrificed in this crime of hate against humanity, and that was it perpetrated by neither a country nor a religion. A fascinating and […]