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The Lady Is A Tramp: Aiyana Stanley-Jones at the Altar of the Media
I'm taking a moment from my usual sexing-it-up posts because of the little girl pictured above.For those who don't know, her name is Aiyana Stanley Jones. And she's dead. Her family just buried her...
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Hello, hello! Ready for some thought-provoking links? I knew you were!Today, in bad taste... anti-abortion group Life Always is comparing aborted fetuses to people killed by the earthquake in Japan....
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Thoughts on the So-Called Gay Cemetery
On Monday, the GA Voicebroke the news that Atlanta's Crest Lawn Memorial Park cemetery will soon have a section "for gay people—couples, their children, single people, people who want to be with their...
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Stop. Link time. (It had to be said.)For RH Reality Check, Jaime Jenett bravely discusses her experiences as a non-biological lesbian parent of an ill child while enduring the daily hurt of Prop 8...
View ArticleBitchTapes: Gone Too Soon
It's no secret that musicians often die far too quickly. In this Only the Good Die Young, Part II mix, I recognize some of the artists we've lost in the past twenty years (a few of whom even sang about...
View ArticlePreacher's Daughter: Mourning and Spirituality in Steve Reich's Response to 9/11
Whenever something significant happens related to the events of September 11, 2001, I notice a dearth of empathy on the (secular and religious) left. It's as if some leftists think we can't mourn the...
View ArticlePreacher's Daughter: Love in the Time of Apocalypse
Over at Global Comment back in May, Bitch contributor Emily Manuel argued that "jokes about the Rapture express a deeper anxiety about the decidedly apocalyptic times we live in." She cited natural...
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Preacher's Daughter: "We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest" in Wake of Troy...
One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that...
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In The Frame: Life, Death, and Other Lessons Learned from Art
For me, art isn't just about finding something pretty or intelligent, or wishing I could paint as well as someone else. It's about looking at a piece and knowing that it's taught you something and you...
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