Janelle Monae Tight Rope
For T.dot. There is nothing wrong with being at check ball with your lady friend, every point is a point of motion, depending on how we look at it.
The funny thing about asking for what you want is that just might
get it.
I wrote last week about Slow Dynamite just kinda running into [...]
Archive for March, 2010
#therisktakers #vulnerableyfearless
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Openly Loving Women is Prolly Radical….
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Yesterday I tweeted a thought, and apparently I touched a cord.
I was so moved by the reaction that I did a screen shot to preserve this history.
The quote is:
Openly Loving women, in a society premised on oppressing women,
is prolly one of the most radical thing you can do.
Agreed?
No?
Beyond/With Precious: Black Women, Incest and Rape
Sunday, March 28th, 2010Last fall, in an email thread about Precious, Ma’ia stated that people were so concerned with the Precious the character, she asked, where was the conversation about the Black women who had been raped?
I responded by saying that I would conduct a conversation here on my blog, to provide a space for such a conversation, [...]
Abstract- Help.
Sunday, March 28th, 2010I want to look at crack in East Oakland. But my prof says that if I look for crack, I will find crack. So I tried to broaden it to violence, as there were 130 murders in Oakland that year. The most in 18 years, at that point.
Abstract
According to Oakland Police Department statistics, in 1986 [...]
Erykah x Pedestrian White Art
Sunday, March 28th, 2010Merriam Webster’s Dictionary
Main Entry: 1pe·des·tri·an
Pronunciation: \pə-ˈdes-trē-ən\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin pedestr-, pedester, literally, going on foot, from ped-, pes foot — more at foot
Date: 1716
1 : commonplace, unimaginative
Doesn’t the Erykah Video render the above images pedestrian and really White?
I am saying.
This afternoon, I was looking for a link to Turn Me [...]
Musing on The Window Seat Video
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Earlier today, I was on the phone with Bacon Grits, chit chatting,planning my outfit, my day, flirting, and he asked me I had seen the Window Seat video? I continued looking for my fuchsia leggings, turned it on, put him on speaker, and continued to chat. I sat down in front of the computer half [...]
Badun’em is a Verb
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Basquiat, is one of my favorites, along with Frida, Renee Cox, Kara Walker, Faith Ringgold, Michelle Wallace, Klimt, Rothko , Chuck Close
There is something liberating about being around someone who is clear that “everyone has a right to be who they are.”
Last month, while speaking to Supreme, we got into
it about the impact that Erykah [...]
It’s All in a Name
Friday, March 26th, 2010Sweet Jesus + Moi on my born day
You and I both know that I am really good at naming people, places and things.
Well. Way back woo, Hot Momma Leo said that she didn’t think that a jawn really liked me, because he didn’t have more than one nick-name for me. I just looked at her [...]
3.23.10 Fresh Stuff Around The Web
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010Unemployment is the New Black T. $24, Digital Gravel
@JdGreenSoul gave me a shout on Twitter today saying “Hey girl, this reminded me of your crush.” SHE CAN SANG! I was like word? Listen Here. Crush Pt. 1
Danny can write her ass off. She modest. But damn if I wasn’t glued to the screen when I [...]
#Intheair #Nosideeye
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Side Eye Wins
I have an “expressive” face, so humans get the side eye
on the reg.
I got back from Bk Thursday and was having a bite to eat with Slow Dynamite. As I was getting up to leave this Negro, asked me twice,
“How was Brooklyn?” I kept it even. “Bk was awesome, hung
with people that loved [...]
