My Feminist Card Is Snatched Again - Blame Lupe

Reblogged from The B(e)-Girl Manifesta:

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So, hiphop artist, Lupe Fiasco was thrown off the stage at a pre-inauguration event following an  anti-Obama rant... and the Twitterverse exploded.

As to be expected, there were were a slew of staunch supporters, a bevy of vehement detractors and very few who fell in between the heated debated that ensued. My timeline alternated between those who viewed Lupe as the heroic, revolutionary, protagonist and those who dismissed him as an attention-seeking, "stunt-queen" only interested in advancing his own cult of personality.

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Reasoned...and reasonable!

~ by Siah Salma Bangai on January 22, 2013.

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