Johan Botha has the same kind of facial expression for joy, anger, shock, and dying in Otello, and he’s also a blackface in that one.... oh god something is wrong, but he’s a good singer. My political correctness is fighting my aesthetic justice...
Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith ... Class problems are often ignore in the U.S., and that’s also a problem... but capitalists won’t tell you what class is, they only tell you what (white) democracy means.
The dean of my department sent an email to three Asian girls, including me, and asked us to write a nomination letter for excellent in teaching for a professor. At first I was willing to write for her, but this fucking race-specific email really insulted me. No thanks. Fuck you all.
Peter Mattei’s album, Once in My Life, is such a precious one. Singing jazz in an operatic way sounds so innovative and novel. Love love love! (please don't call it cultural appropriation
When you feel exhausted and don’t wanna sleep, I really have no idea how to solve this inner conflict... and almost Chinese New Year here, happy new year to whoever cares (said by a person who hasn’t been home for a third of her life.)
Yesterday I participated in a clubhouse panel (whatever you call it). OMG, so many fucking mansplainers... Always interrupted women, corrected their grammars, didn't listen to what they said... These fuckers need to shut uuuuup..
“[vitalism] urges a return to raw, unverbalized lived experience through the bracketing of the sedimented categories and schema by which we reflect on and “deaden” it.” --Donna Jones. I really have no idea what she’s talking abt...