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Renina continues to
challenge herself and
give these types of
conversations a platform
away from the classroom.
i also think she grapples
with a lot of ideas and
i love that she?s not afraid
to put that work on display.
i?m thankful.
-Bianca
l Brooklyn

You’re bookmarked based off of this post alone
-Ketchums
l Michigan

I’ve read your blog for a long time and this is
my first time responding. You give me reason
to think and improve upon myself and others.
Thank you.
-John l Florida


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Archive for August, 2010

Black Women’s Complicity in Being Dominated

Friday, August 27th, 2010

RHOA fight b/w Kim and Nene. @tkoed and ‘Toya. See, I wrote it! Fan on Facebook. #new Last day to vote for my #SXSW presentation here. After writing several posts in June about Black men, Love, and domination John challenged me to talk about the ways in which Black women are complicit in being dominated, [...]

#HannaMontanaFishburne

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Recently Montana Fishburne, actor Laurence Fishburne’s 19 year old daughter, has decided to release a sex tape. As the daughter of one of the United States Black elite, I found it interesting that she has chosen to publicly choose a career as a pornography star as a way to earn a living.? Summer M. of [...]

?uestlove’s Black Feminist Response x Sabina O’Donnell

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Sabina O’Donnell and Donte Johnson photo via thebeatofphilly.com I have been haunted by the murder and rape of Sabina O’Donnell, allegedly by Donte Johnson. “PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP/KYW) Two weeks to the day after 20-year-old Sabina Rose O’Donnell was brutally raped and strangled to death in an empty lot, Philadelphia police have announced they have arrested the [...]

SXSW Countdown: 2+ (Race, Sex and Blogging: Vote Here)

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

How Zora and Dilla Helped me to Claim My Crush There are two more days of voting for my #SXSW panel, Race, Sex and Blogging, The Limits and The Possibilities. Vote Here. Oh. And you can Like the Blog on Facebook here. The Brilliant Ann, who did the site redesign, created these awesome buttons to [...]

Join Me on Tumblr

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

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#BlackGirlsarefromtheFuture @ SXSW Interactive!

Monday, August 16th, 2010

^^^This is that NY Taco Fun…I needs that Austin Taco Fun in my life. #blackGirlsAreFromtheFuture #ForReal. My presentation proposal, “Race, Sex and Blogging: The Limits, The Possibilities” has been accepted into SXSW Interactive. Please help take #blackGirlsfromthefuture to Austin, so we can GET LIVE! The more votes I get, the more likely I will be [...]

#Nixonland Reading Schedule #NMM Book Club

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Let Them Eat Crack by Banksy @tkoed @skippcoon @mdotwrites @arieswym @MZ_of_TSS I am not sure if this will work but lets try it. What do you all think of this. For the next three Monday’ s, we can Tweet/Chat #Nixonland. On Sunday’s I will put up a blog post w/ guiding questions. If you have [...]

Hope Is Hella Underrated: Musing on Youth Social Movements

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

Black Youth Rising, by Shawn Ginwright is a book that changed my life because it addresses violence, East Oakland, social movements and the need for folks to understand how the crack epidemic’s most profound impact may be the ways in which it underminded Black city residents ability to hope that shit might get better. Given [...]

Notes on Black Male Privilege x Towards a New Black Masculinity

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Robert Johnson, Blues Musician This post is for my nephew, who inspires me to this work. Black Mothers Raise Their Daughters and Love Their Sons ~Saying I/we have heard …The oppression of women is a difficult issue for our community partly because it is such a personal one. It is passed on to us through [...]

Black Male Privilege x Male Privilege

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

This piece is dedicated to Michele, T.Dot, John, and Pepe Shout out to Bianca for the above image. While on an awesome date last weekend, Pepe hesitated, then proceeded to challenge me on the idea of Black Male Privilege. He didn’t want to because he suspected that it would derail the date. It didn’t. In [...]