My Writing - Two Links

I'm back from vacation. It was awesome... I'll post some more on it later.

While I was gone, I had two thingies published.

One was a short comment on adoption, in the Minnesota Women's Press, in response to this story, A Feminist Lens on Adoption. It's not a very notable comment that would stand out for regular readers here, except for the fact that it's now printed on dead trees.

The second was a long piece on racist abuse, published at my favorite hangout, Racialicious.com. It's sort of a non-adoption-related expansion on one of my early posts at this blog, Handling Racism as a Child. It's got the unwieldy title of Getting Past the Bears: Racist Abuse in Middle School and the Formation of People of Color Consciousness. I wrote it as part of the Racialicious Things We Do to Each Other/Things We Do to Ourselves series.

I spent a long time working on the Bears post, and I'm pretty happy with it. The edits Latoya suggested were also a great help. I tried to produce something emotionally perturbing, yet measured and analytical, and I think I mainly succeeded. The comments to the post (100+) contain a lot of people sharing experiences very close to mine, or that intersect in interesting ways. I wish I had time to interact with the commenters more, but I was in the middle of the grueling three-flight trip back to Atlanta.