Gukira

• X Tourism

  Posted: September 25, 2009, 4:24 am by keguro

  For many of us, slum tourism represents a step back in our relation to mostly European and North American white tourists. We worry that the black bodies on display in our slums are akin to the wild animals that adorn the tourist souvenirs we sell. We worry, even more, that those who visit slums will [...]

• On Caster Semenya

  Posted: September 20, 2009, 12:00 am by keguro

  It is difficult to write on Caster Semenya. It is difficult because it participates in an ongoing spectacularization that, at this time, could probably not have been handled better. I write this not simply to be perverse, to go against the many people who have claimed it could have been handled better, but because I [...]

• Color

  Posted: September 16, 2009, 2:10 am by keguro

  The real color of the African is really purple and nothing else. Pauline Hopkins, 1905

• Purity

  Posted: September 15, 2009, 10:54 pm by keguro

  Unless we conquer our present vices they will conquer us: we are diseased, we are developing criminal tendencies, and an alarmingly large percentage of our men and women are sexually impure. W.E.B. Du Bois, 1897

• On History

  Posted: September 13, 2009, 7:55 pm by keguro

  It is true we are too busy making history, and have been for some years past, to be able to write history yet, or to understand and interpret it. Anna Julia Cooper, 1892 Beyond the common duties peculiar to woman’s sphere, the colored woman must have an intimate knowledge of every question that agitates the councils of [...]

• Dear Spam

  Posted: September 13, 2009, 6:34 pm by keguro

  I like you. At your best, you are inventive. At your worst, provocative. And while I am happy to read you and indulge in our dl love, let’s keep it dl. No need to be brazen about what we do off the page.

• On Politics

  Posted: September 7, 2009, 12:01 am by keguro

  And yet politics, and surely American politics, is hardly a school for great minds. Sharpening rather than deepening, it develops the faculty of taking advantage of present emergencies rather than the insight to distinguish between the true and the false, the lasting and the ephemeral advantage. Anna Julia Cooper, “Status of Woman in America” (1892) [...]

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