February 2012
5 posts
“We are often called further into experiences than we’d like to go, but it...”
– Mark Nepo, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING
Liquor&Spice: Who Sings songs to Black Girls? →
blackamazon:
Chris Brown
Chris Brown all I hear about in what passes for feminist discussion has centered around Chris Brown.
Does HE deserve a second chance.
Is he worth it?
Why do women support him.
And every person with out a blink without a flinch mocked the girls.
I have never…
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele: You are NOT the Father →
lumumbabandele:
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele
Thirteen years ago my oldest child, Naima Bandele arrived and changed my life. My world was now focused on parenthood. From that moment, everything I thought, planned and did was centered around my daughter. How will my work, activities and politics impact her? …
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Queer Sisters Keep Saving Me: The Brilliantly... →
Today is the first St. Valentine’s Day in three years in which I write a new blog about what this day means to me. In 2009 I wrote one wherein I recount why St. Valentine was a historical figure worthy of recognition especially in these times and reiterate my support for marriage equality. (These may seem like disparate themes, but trust me, they come together in the blog.) Rather than write a...
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January 2012
1 post
Shit Birds Say →
Even if you’re not a birder or nature lover, the final call makes this worth watching.
December 2011
4 posts
7 tags
“Christmas: Celebrating an unmarried teenage mom giving birth in a stable, to a...”
– from a post by Oshan Anand
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Making Don Draper a Feminist: Remix and Narrative... →
by one of my sheroes “pop culture pirate” Elisa Kreisinger
“Work like The Help is racially-easy. And we all know the recipe: Develop code...”
– - Blanca E. Vega
in “Choosing Between “The Help” or “Faces at the Bottom of the Well”: On Reproducing Racially-Easy Work or Constructing...
November 2011
8 posts
Day 26: Document Someone You Love #30DaysofGOOD
good:
Read more about this month’s challenge here. See all daily challenges here.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
strugglingtobeheard replied to your post: lol someone made an exact duplicate of my blog called “dumbthingsblackpeoplesay”, stole all my information, my exact wurds and errythang.
what the fuck? that’s the most ridiculous thing they could do. they are the ones who are fucking bat shit crazy anyways… ugh. jeeze.
The funny thing? There is a blog called...
“Most guys, we can recite all of The Godfather, we can recite all of Caddyshack,...”
– - Aaron Sorkin (follow and join the #LadiesinFilm tag on Twitter to prove him wrong with quotable lines from women across film history.
My two cents.
Now maybe he’s attempting to criticize how poorly written film characters tend to be. It’s hard to give him that benefit of the doubt...
guerrilla mama medicine: thunk →
james-bliss:
you show me a person who’s complaining that somebody is trying to institute a hierarchy of oppressions
and I’ll show you a person who is lashing out at Black people.
you show me a person who quotes Audre Lorde as far as an essay title (with no engagement with the content of…
Fly (Girls)
Me: Dammit!
Pa: What?
Me: These damn flies!
Pa: (singing) Shoo, fly...
Me; (singing) Don't boootha me.
Pa: (pointing) There she goes.
Me: (confused) Who?
Pa: The fly.
Me: How do you know it's a she?
Pa: Flies are girls.
Me: They can't all be girls.
Pa: Fly! Fly girls!
Me: Hahahahaha!
“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to...”
– Thomas Merton
October 2011
8 posts
6 tags
They're Going to Laugh at You: White Women, ... →
Who spiked the Evian? Lately, there’s been a rash of White women using the n-word – including self-professed liberals and progressives. As if that were not bad enough, they act shocked, defensive and even downright arrogant when told by women of all races that they should cut that shit out. (Click to continue reading.)
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AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives: "Am I Troy Davis?... →
afrolez:
Sister/Comrade Stephanie Gilmore, who spoke at SlutWalk Philadelphia, is, to the best of my knowledge, one of the ONLY anti-racist White Feminists who has PUBLICLY SUPPORTED the IDEA/PREMISE of SlutWalk while PUBLICLY CHALLENGING its CURRENT RACIST REALITY.
With her FULL PERMISSION, I have…
Blackamazon is too much: Open Letter to Slutwalk →
blackamazon:
Dear Slutwalk and all of it’s supporters,
Good luck I mean that ,with whatever you intend to do. However with Shira Tennant now just LYING in print , it is obvious we can not continue to hold a dialogue about this.. It’s not just a disagreement. It’s not minor. It’s resource and class violence…
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September 2011
10 posts
“Don’t make oithers’ feelings about you more Important than your...”
– Wayne Dyer
THE POWER OF INTENTION
Latinegro: Poetry/Music: The Day I Learned How to... →
latinegro:
The world changed ten years ago. It was a shift in the American paradigm that we are all still getting adjusted to. I can barely remember life prior to September 11, 2001. I do know that nothing has ever been the same. Everything that was our way of life changed when those towers came down….
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Funny Women are Dangerous: Rape Culture and... →
Sometimes I miss doing standup. Women who are funny are powerful, and therefore dangerous. But this is the first time I ever regretted not pursuing standup because I missed an opportunity to hand some predator’s ass to him.
Summary: in pursuit of shits and giggles, a man admitted before a live audience that he aggressively pursued sex with a woman who told him repeatedly that she didn’t want him...
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Just 3 Days Left to submit RFP for BGP: Sisterhood... →
wllc:
BGP: Sisterhood Summit 2011- Call for Submissions
The Black Girl Project (BGP) is holding its first Sisterhood Summit, a symposium designed to provide a platform for young women and girls to develop the tools to advocate, express, create and inspire, while also building active and sustainable…
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“Americans want Jamaicans or Puerto Ricans to think (and act) in black and white....”
– Professor Ronald Fernandez who transcended this past Tuesday.
August 2011
4 posts
9 tags
The Live Trilogy Mixtape Jam Release Party...
casmik:
Venue Information: Mercury Lounge New York, NY 217 E Houston St. http://mercuryloungenyc.com
at what point do i get a lawyer....
latinosexuality:
b/c im being targeted by radical anti-choice fundamentalist b/c of who i am, what i do, and exercising my first amendment right while they put my safety in danger.
Yes, hermana, contact the local chapters of NOW, NARAL and ACLU to see if they can support or at least steer you in the right direction. I’d also reach out to media sources. Seriously, pitch el Diario,...
The CFC: Indie Films By Black Women. Please... →
newmodelminority:
glossylalia:
squeetothegee:
newmodelminority:
I am creating a link page on NewModelMinority.co. A set of the links will be indie films or documentaries or even MSM films and docs DIRECTED by Black women.
Help.
1. Just Another Girl on the IRT
2….
If the sole criterion is having a Black woman director, then you might also include:
1. I Like It Like That
2....
July 2011
17 posts
get free or die tryin'.: blackamazon: Dear black... →
blackamazon:
Dear black middle ( bougie) class
You don’t get progress racially and get to leave out
The hoodrats
The skrippers
The chickenheads And the
Ghetto bitches
I’m sorry it hurts your standing at the country club in a way that means not sorry at all
But it’s not Shaniqua’s or…
“Did you ever wonder why so many sisters look so angry? Why we walk like...”
– Opal Palmer Adisa, “Rocking in the Sunlight: Stress and Black Women” in THE BLACK WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK
“Here’s the thing: We’ve so romanticized the tortured artist, been complicit in...”
– Ernest Hardy on the passing of Amy Winehouse
“Addiction is not a chemical reaction. Addiction is an experience - one which...”
– Stanton Peele, 1975
“Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause...”
– Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt-Eaters
“Some might argue that reading a scholarly anthology, silently, with (say)...”
– Straight Outta Comp 101
not sure why but this is one of my favorite articles on hip hop. i think it is because i can understand/share this guys enthusiasm for rap on a literary level. and it supports my suspicions that rap is its own literary genre. (via guerrillamamamedicine)
“In fact a mature person does not fall in love, he rises in love. The word ’fall’...”
– Osho (via fernsandmoss)
ay. if this wasnt so fuckin true.
(via soydulcedeleche)