in particular the line of...Once I learned that Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality mutually construct each other, I ain’t been the same since/sense. For more reading: Black Sexual Politics Black Queer Studies New Black Man
Archive for March, 2010
Race + Class + Sexuality
Sunday, March 7th, 2010#Blackgirlfromthefuture#12
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Today I saw Lorraine O’Grady speak. In the above photo, she is doing a performance piece titled Mlle Bourgeoise Noire. Here is some information about the performance: Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, O’Grady’s first public performance, remains the artist’s best known work. The persona first appeared in 1980 under the Futurist dictum that art has the power [...]
All That I Can Say
Saturday, March 6th, 2010I have been listening to this Mary Album lately. Its up beat and has some jawns on it. Countdown to Erykah, 3/30/10. Think I am going go to or throw listening party for that album. Seems apropo, no?
Hip Hop is a Masculine Space
Monday, March 1st, 2010Peace to Vince Lopez How did I get into hip hop as a feminist? As a teenager, I found, in the early 90′s that the cool kids, at least the ones I wanted to be liked by where into hip hop. Furthermore, as I got older, and got into The Source, but Fridah, Basquiat and [...]
Second Semester
Monday, March 1st, 2010Second Semester is different from the first in a few ways. The first is that I read with more confidence. I have process for being able to absorb a book by reading the introduction closely, recognizing the arguement then proceeding to read the relevant chapters that I feel the author care’s most about. Second is [...]
