Shark Fu practices the fine art of bitchitude at AngryBlackBitch.com, where she has developed a blog that offers opinion pieces on a wide variety of subjects from a black feminist perspective. Shark Fu is a staff writer for RH RealityCheck.org and a featured contributor to National Public Radio's (NPR) "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin. Merritt's writing has been published in the Chicago Sun-Times and in Salon.com's Broadsheet. In 2008 AngryBlackBitch.com was named one of the world's 50 most powerful blogs by The Guardian (London).
Thank you all for the warm welcome! And thanks for Biden and Palin's contact info - trust that I shall be in touch with them shortly! I look forward to discussing many of the issues raised in comments to this (posted to Notes from a bitch...)
Tara K - nope, I'm not a hockey mom. Hell, I'm not a mom. But I do adore hockey - GO BLUES!! tonisjadine & 76cents - too true! Canvassing and phone banking taught me that my fellow voters are in (posted to Notes from a bitch...)
Wonderful first post, Shark-Fu! Looking forward to more! I don't mind saying that your posts are a reason to start reading here more. You are a much needed addition (not to say that the writers here aren't wonderful) to this (posted to Notes from a bitch...)
What the B-Word and N-Word Mean To Me I'm trepidating here, truly! But as a black male, I don't see the B-Word and N-Word to be analogous or comparable epithets or having the same genesis or etymology Why? These reasons: (posted to Notes from a bitch...)
Hi I'm from St. Louis as well. So glad I found Feministing, feel like I've found my home. (posted to Notes from a bitch...)
Shark-Fu - "And thanks for Biden and Palin's contact info - trust that I shall be in touch with them shortly!" Are you really that arrogant to believe that either one of them will give a damn about what you (posted to Notes from a bitch...)
I was doing some phone banking tonight. I live in Montana, so I got more "no thank yous" than anything.It felt ultimately satisfying though, and I was glad that I had the chance. Going door-to-door is better, you get to (posted to Notes from a bitch...)