Neens and D.J. Les courtesy of @sixfive Thursday night, I went to a function. Boom bap deliciousness, but I hadn’t anticipated it. I had a big work day, and knew I wanted to chill later,? so I had given KB a heads up. Got a text? around @ 6:00 pm saying, “not going to be [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Crush’s and Being Human
Sunday, February 21st, 2010How Zora and Jay Dilla Helped Me Claim My Crush
Monday, February 15th, 2010This one is for T.dot and Black girls desire. A month ago, I read There Eyes Watching God in one sitting, in Oakland. I hadn’t read the book since I was a 16. At that time I appreciated Zora’s use of language, but I didn’t have the life experience to appreciate the beauty of the [...]
Future Global Gated Communites
Saturday, February 13th, 2010I strongly suspect that our world is bifurcating into a global gated community where the folks in the first world/ global north will have access to: Fruits and vegetables Water The internet Physical Books Information Economy Jobs Jobs that provide direct support to the information economy Whereas the folks in the third world/global south will: [...]
“Niggers, Fags and John Mayer, Oh My”
Friday, February 12th, 2010The reason why Black women’s sexuality and pop culture is one of my research interests is because I know that when you dominate someone sexually, you dominate them physically and spiritually as well. No one was put on this earth to be dominated, all humans are intrinsically valuable, so I/we resist. Before I get into [...]
Two Heavy Post’s
Friday, February 12th, 2010Concurrently, I am working on John Mayer jawn, and a jawn on my new idea about how society is going break into a global gated community and bifurcate around food and the internet. Light stuff, hunh? The good thing about having these ideas, is that they may turn into papers, and the back and forth [...]
Quoted: Global Feminism, Gats, Haiti, Nukes
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Structural Violence makes population more vulnerable to social, economic, health, and environmental harms. Not only has the United States increased structural violence against its own population in favor of waging direct (and structural) violence abroad, but also a number of other countries, some of which have the weakest social safety nets, have made similar choices, [...]
Jay Dilla x Capitalism
Monday, February 8th, 2010My homie went to the Jay Dilla Tribute Party on Saturday? night in BK. He was on the line @ 12am. There were people inside partying and on the line outside. After waiting in line for 30 minutes, the bouncer told the folks on line, “Only single women can be admitted, no [heterosexual] couples, no [...]
Black Women and Resistance: I was Free
Saturday, February 6th, 2010It was in mid semester last year that I learned, while reading Damita Jo Brown’s dissertation, “History is a Hungry Traveler: Black Female Subjects and The Grammars of Liberation” about how Black women who worked as washer women during reconstruction would meet together and discuss who to work for, who to avoid, who paid well, [...]
