January 2011
14 posts
Our whole life a translation the permissible fibs and now a knot of lies eating at itself to get undone Words bitten thru words ~~ meanings burnt-off like paint under the blowtorch All those dead letters rendered into the oppressor’s language Trying to tell the doctor where it hurts like the Algerian who waled form his village, burning his whole body a could of pain and there are no...
xicana grrrl: "Nigger" →
It’s that time of year again where we discuss the word “nigger.” Seems like it was just yesterday when Oprah popularized the daytime-TV-safe “n-word”—I’m surprised that it didn’t make Word of the Year, but then again, I’m not. No matter how much you try to sugarcoat it, “nigger” makes people uncomfortable. This time the discussion is pegged to NewSouth Books’ “nigger”-free version of Mark...
