From the Book - First edition.
Politics, gender and race
Feel me, see me, hear me, reach me --
Typical first year professor --
To scratch, claw or grope clumsily or frantically --
How to be friends with another woman --
I once was Miss America --
Garish, glorious spectacles --
Not here to make friends --
Reaching for catharsis : getting fat right (or wrong) and Diana Spechler's Skinny --
The smooth surfaces of idyll --
The careless language of sexual violence --
The illusion of safety/the safety of illusion --
The spectacle of broken men --
Some jokes are funnier than others --
Dear young ladies who love Chris Brown --
So much they would let him beat them --
The trouble with Prince Charming, or, He who trespassed against us --
The solace of preparing fried foods and other quaint remembrances from 1960s Mississippi : thoughts on The help --
Beyond the struggle narrative --
The morality of Tyler Perry --
The last day of a young black man --
The politics of respectability --
When Twitter does what journalism cannot --
The alienable rights of women --
Holding out for a hero --
A tale of two profiles --
The racism we all carry --
Tragedy, call, compassion, response --
Bad feminist : take one --