Courtesy of @RichieFresh Two weeks ago, I was out. I wasn’t even suppose to be. However, I came across #Aquemini. Luminous eyes and June born. #Pow. I introduced myself to him and he kissed my cheek. Then he turned around and kissed Greeneye’s hand. I couldn’t let THAT ‘ish slide. So we are chatting. So I [...]
Archive for February, 2011
For Colored Girls Who Considered Love….
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011On Being Honest and Saying No.
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011I finally laid it down with SD on Friday. He saw me and wanted to sip and I said sure. But we needed to talk first. I basically said listen, I need to get off this ride. I adore you, we have a lot in common but you come at me like you want to [...]
Thank you for Moya and Jessica.
Friday, February 18th, 2011For the last two years. Moya and Jessica have taken my calls, given me advice, listened to me while I was in tears and wanted to drop out. Listened to me deal with breaking up with Filthy, listened to me deal with what it means to be a graduate student in a Research 1 University. [...]
Keep That Thang Clean…
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011I woke up with clarity this morning. You know THAT post that I wrote last week, well, I ran into him again. I wasn’t even suppose to be out Friday. I passed on going to see the free Bilal show. Up early at a fundraiser brunch at 8:30 am, taught at 1pm, the day was [...]
Black Poets + Writers, Born to Stay Broke?
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Langston Hughes x Underpaid Poets x DJ Kool Herc’s Hospital Bills. There are a few things going through my head, clearly. The first is, a couple of weeks ago, poet and professor Thomas Sayers Ellis took the cardboard cut out of Langston Hughes from Busboys arguing that it was disrespectful and that the poets are [...]
How Oakland Brought Me #Aquemini
Monday, February 14th, 2011On Saturday, I met #Aquemini. I was posted up, waiting for someone, doing me. He then spoke, and asked if I was a professor. I had just come from writing the midterm and reading so I had a bag of books next to my chair. I responded no, I am a teacher. I asked him [...]
On Desire and Being #VulnerableyFearless
Thursday, February 10th, 2011In the name of all things vulnerableyfearless. Last night I ran into SD. I was just posted up by myself, my Jeffersonian date ended early and last night was my Friday because I am going to be working through this weekend. Normally when I go out I either meet up with folks or run into [...]
He is Such a Gemini.
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011#ummhmm.<<<<Click. I Live for the day when a Black woman can be this THIS explicit and unapologetic. Publicly.
The Sheer Queerness of the Little Dragon Audience
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011Photo by Danielle Scruggs This post is Dedicated to #JermthePerm aka #OldManRap A couple of Fridays I got a call, my homie said “What are you doing tomorrow, you want to go to the Little Dragon show?” I responded yes and immediately began to think about my outfit. I have to have my priorities in [...]
What Women Have to Do With It: A Response to Chrystia Freeland’s Rise of the New Global Elite.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011Chrystia Freeland at The Atlantic has written an interesting article “Rise of the New Global Elite” analyzing the new transnational elite. Her main points are that in the US we are “plutocracy, in which the rich display outsize political influence, narrowly self-interested motives, and a casual indifference to anyone outside their own rarefied economic bubble” [...]
