I received a lot of feedback in response to “I Fit the Description…” Some of the emails and comments were down right hateful, so much so that I shut down comments on my blog and I stopped reading the emails. When I finally went back to them, I found a couple from a Girl Scout Troop leader… (read more)
There is no safe place for black people in America. Black people do not have the presumption of innocence. The law is not organized for their protection, rather it is organized around their annihilation. There are highly funded media outlets and personalities that perpetuate racist stereotypes and hate speech against black people. When black people… (read more)
I made this drawing. It’s called “Fuck Reagan.” Let me know if you are offended because that was the point. Reagan was not actually sodomized in the making of this image.
I am getting ready to leave Istanbul. In a lot of ways, I have left already. I have sort of contracted into a ball here, walking around the city in the morning and coming back to the hotel in the afternoons to sleep for a few hours. Then going out in the evening for dinner… (read more)
There is pending congressional legislation that will remove significant copyright protection from all works of art if it is enacted. The Orphan Works Act of 2008 makes it possible to declare a copyrighted work “orphaned” if an infringer says that he is unable to locate the author based on the infringer’s idea of a reasonable… (read more)
Let me reiterate: cops are the same all over the world. My friend and colleague, Noel Ignatiev says “All over the world cops beat up poor people; that is their job, and it has nothing to do with color.” I spent the majority of the day in my hotel room yesterday. In every country that… (read more)
The driver of our tour bus (Omer, not to be confused with Omer, our tour guide) is one of the most beautiful men I have ever seen. I don’t know what he is doing driving a bus of tourists around Turkey. He should be a movie star. He smokes, like most Turks and I guess… (read more)