Turiya Autry and I will be co-teaching another class this fall at Portland State University, Black Feminism/Womanism BST 342 (in the Black Studies Department). We are really excited about it, it's our second time teaching it together, and we have some tried and true material as well as some new and exciting materials to share.

This summer I will be teaching my first solo class at Portland State University! It is called Black Women in Popular Culture, and the information is below. Please pass the word on to any folks you know taking summer classes at PSU, they need to sign up no later than July 7, 2008. If they miss it, I'll be posting more classes I'll be teaching and co-teaching next year, so keep checking in.

Black Women in Popular Culture
CRN 82701 BST 410 002
Second Summer Session
July 21 – Aug. 15, 2008
10:30-12:50 pm MTWR
Room: CH 71

i started writing for this new website called Imagine 2050, which is about reenvisioning what it means to be an American in a reality where people of color will be the majority within our lifetimes (we'll depending how old we are right now!)

I'm going to be doing monthly movie reviews. They will be coming out the fourth week of the month. My first one is on Children of Men. (I'll be doing older movies as well as newer ones):

imagine2050.blogspot.com/2008/06/who-you-calling-illegal-pilgrim.html

This is rather belated, but wanted to let folks know that I edited a special section in Left Turn Magazine www.leftturn.org in the last issue #28 April/May on alternatives to the prison industrial complex. It was a lot of work but I was really happy with how it turned out. There are articles from international movements building alternatives to incarceration, there is a main article on alternatives here in this country, and a piece on alternatives to the death penalty. I also wrote two short pieces for it.