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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading. What I&#8217;m Thinking.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2012/04/16/what-im-reading-what-im-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was not natural. And she was the first&#8230; A poet can read. A poet can write. A poet is African in Africa, or Irish in Ireland, or French on the left bank of Paris, or white in Wisconsin. A poet writes in her own language. A poet writers of her own people, her own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1426&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>however do you want me. however do you need me.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/09/06/however-do-you-want-me-however-do-you-need-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Viva La Vida]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dime-1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[la belle epoque.]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bellewetherstate.com/?p=1364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I took the summer off from blogging and have been on my reinvention grind. This economy has been various degrees of unkind and kind to black girls (and yes, everyone). As of late I&#8217;m choosing to embrace a more positive dream (more on that later). Yet, these hands were not idle. There&#8217;s the summer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1364&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>dancebreak.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/05/18/dancebreak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 14:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bellewetherstate.com/?p=1351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but lately, everything is coming up &#8217;80s for me. 1980s. Bad economy, the ghost of Ronald Reagan, bad banks, doc siders, penny loafers, jelly shoes, skinny jeans, jeggings, acid wash jeggings, jelly bracelets (silly bands), flannel. That stupid article in Psychology Today calling me and mine ugly got me watching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1351&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>against appropriation, cont.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/03/02/against-appropriation-cont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still don&#8217;t have an answer to the dilemma of influence versus appropriation without attribution.  While I was re-reading Rene Ricard&#8217;s essay, The Radiant Child (Artforum XX, Issue 4 December, 1981), for other obsessive reasons (research) the following passage seemed especially poignant: As much as undervaluation can kill, so can a false sense of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1306&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>against appropriation.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/02/25/against-appropriation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bellewetherstate.com/?p=1273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One would categorize this situation as a thorny issue: Though he describes himself as a good friend of hers, the fashion and art photographer David LaChapelle has decided to settle his differences with the pop star Rihanna in a place where friends don’t usually end up: court. Mr. LaChapelle, known for his candy-colored, sexually over-the-top [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1273&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther King on Extremism.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/17/martin-luther-king-on-extremism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[via Jay Smooth. YouTube &#8211; Martin Luther King on Extremism.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1196&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>same, same. but different.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/10/same-same-but-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking about Saturday&#8217;s shooting in Tuscon, I remembered an Adam Gopnik piece from the 2007 New Yorker in the wake of the Virgina Tech Shooting. It&#8217;s worth a re-read as we uncover &#8216;facts&#8217; and salacious details about the psyche and life of the alleged shooter, Jared Loughner. While we&#8217;re all trying to find space to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1191&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>holding us back.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/09/holding-us-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bellewetherstate.com/?p=1181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t watch a lot of television. In fact, most of my television consumption these days is completely over the internet.  However, I have five shows that I&#8217;ve deemed essential: House, Community, Grey&#8217;s Anatomy, Private Practice, Mad Men. Private Practice is a residual holdover because of my love for Grey&#8217;s.  I watch Grey&#8217;s regularly and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1181&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on huck finn.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/06/on-huck-finn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tayari Jones zeroes in on my feelings on the subject: The revisions to &#8220;Huckleberry Finn&#8221; have been described as &#8220;politically correct,&#8221; but I disagree with this characterization. Political correctness is not about airbrushing history to allow us to remember our past in a way that more closely resembles our present. Though more honorable in intent, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1178&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1.1.11</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/02/1-1-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One. This year is a prime number. And according to this guy, the sum of 11 consecutive prime numbers: The prime-ness of this year suggest one should do something momentous. So I went to Coney Island with my friends to watch a few hundred giddy people of all shades and shapes jump into the 38 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1159&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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