in particular the line of...Saturday I was talking to my daddy and was catching him up on my week. I told him I was reading this awesome book on Billie Holiday, If You Can’t Be Free Be a Mystery by Farah Griffin, and that I was having a public conversation with another writer, a Black man, about the importance [...]
Archive for November, 2010
My Daddy Ain’t No Feminist
Monday, November 22nd, 2010Rap Blogs + Feminism, an Uneasy Marriage
Monday, November 22nd, 2010Via Complex (Really awesome post on “dead” rap magazines.”) In May of 2009, every since John posted the nude pictures of who is largely speculated to be singer Rihanna Fenty, I haven’t felt the same way about rap music. When I saw that he posted the pictures, I contacted him and we had a conversation [...]
3 Questions on Art and Desire
Sunday, November 21st, 2010Is my work such an integral part of me, that if you don’t get it, I can’t fuck with you? Is this being dogmatic? Or am I just being honest? Would I even have to ask myself these questions if I were born male? These questions came out a conversation with @hotcombpics this morning. As [...]
Now That You Got It, What ‘Chu Gone Do With It.
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Yesterday, I was sending an email to someone and I came across an old Law school colleague in the little auto fill jawn, so I decided to look her up. Be careful when you do that shit. I did a search and learned via the NY Times that she got married last fall to a [...]
For Colored Bloggers Who Consider Sexism and Racism
Sunday, November 14th, 2010Crystal and Beau Willie Brown and in a pivotal scene in For Colored Girls. In Ta-Nehisi’s response to me, he acknowledges me, which I appreciate, then he apologizes for critiquing For Colored Girls without having read it recently, then I read him to go on to say that his blog is his space to work [...]
“He Sleeps Around But He Gives Me A Lot”
Sunday, November 7th, 2010While reading Ayana Byrd’s essay “Claiming Jezebel: Back Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expression in Hip Hop,” while preparing for my lecture on women’s bodies and rap videos I came across an interesting quote by and about Foxy Brown? on the “Ain’t No Nigga” era. Byrd writes quoting Foxy, “At sixteen I was just so happy [...]
Jay-Z Blinks at ‘Big Pimping’ Lyrics and I Take Notice
Sunday, November 7th, 2010In The Wall Street Journal last week Jay-Z blinked at some of the lyrics that he has used historically. He was referring to his bars on “Big Pimping”. Here is the first verse, You know I thug ‘em, fuck ‘em, love ‘em, leave ‘em Cause I don’t fuckin’ need ‘em Take ‘em out the hood [...]
Jay-Z x Nzingha Stewart x For Colored Girls.
Saturday, November 6th, 2010Last week I learned that in 2005 Jay-Z stopped the release of his autobiography, tentatively titled, The Black Book because he found it to be too personal. After reading this and realizing that Nzingha Stewart was originally signed to direct For Colored Girls, ? I concluded that a barometer of Black womens? freedom is our [...]
Ta-Nehisi Coates asked “Is ‘For Colored Girls’ a Classic”: My Response.
Saturday, November 6th, 2010In March, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a blog post titled, “The Debatable Legacy of For Colored Girls.” He writes, “I haven’t read it in years, but even as a younger person I remember thinking it was somewhat over the top and heavy-handed. Hence when I heard that Perry was involved my thoughts were more along the [...]
When Blog Readers Respond: Ms. Whitney M.
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010Image from UK Daily Mail This weekend I wrote a lot. One of the posts was “Can African Americans Find Their Voice in Cyberspace?” And Whitney Muse responded writing a comment so long that it crashed the comments box. I am honored! One of the material differences between newspapers and blogs is the interaction between [...]
