I’m not even sure anyone reads this blog anymore because it’s been over 2 months since I last posted! But on the off-chance that someone is reading and cares, I’m posting a list of things I’d like to write about. I can’t seem to find the time and/or mental space to do it. At various points I’ve felt that there wasn’t a point. And definitely a major issue is that the thing I most passionately wish to write about, I can’t really discuss publicly. (Don’t worry, Lucy and I are blissfully partnered and in perfect health.)

So my list:
1. Black intellectuals who want to complain about how the Black majority doesn’t get them. Intellectuals: Get the fuck over it.
2. Light skinned Black people who are angry at the Black community for “not accepting them”: Honestly, you think the Black community is the problem?
3. Canadians & Israelis who don’t care about the fact that you live on stolen land: what the fuck is wrong with you?
4. Barack Obama: Dreams From My Father is actually a fantastic book. Too bad the guy who wrote it doesn’t actually seem to be the same guy who eventually decided to run for president. But, Tupac we gon see a Black president! A fucking Black President!!!! That is just … wow.
5. Black Power Panda vs. White Privilege Panda. Politically Correct Zebra arbitrates. Hapa Giraffe and Yellow Giraffe.
6. Why I do and do not want a PhD in Afro-Canadian Studies.
7. I was on national TV in Canada … playing chess and talking about racism! The newspaper too.
8. My trip home to California. My acceptance that until immigration law changes, I’m marooned. Thanks homophobic pricks.
9. Let’s clear the air. I actually do like physics. I’m actually a nerd.
10. But let’s face it, the academy is fucking evil. But I think the only way to save humanity from science is to save science for humanity. Which means I have to keep trying to forge a path.
11. I need to finish blogging The Book of Negroes, which, by the way, my step-father read and thought was amazing.
12. Why Houston A. Baker rules and Randall Kennedy drools and Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates just plain suck.
13. Beautiful Black women
14. Women vs. Womyn?
15. Omar Khadr and how you have to be an evil fucking country to persecute and torture a child (maybe) soldier (ahem USA & Canada)
16. Hip-Hop is Dead?
17. And whatever happened to John Singleton, the director who made movies that meant something?

In the meantime, if you have my email address. Email me. I could use some friendly noises.

Music for this entry: Alicia Keys, As I Am