The information that you find will change you. The day started with a conversation with Bacon Grits where I confessed that he and I are different from most people in that we don’t rank human beings hierarchically, meaning that we treat people with a base level of respect. I also told him that I appreciated [...]
Archive for March, 2011
On Spirit and Other Things
Thursday, March 24th, 2011A Note Black Gender Relations in 2011
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011After writing that post on Nate Dogg, I spoke to Rob and learned that there is an entire dating blogosphere were men, Black and White, blog about their relationships. I always KNEW these blogs existed but I didn’t know that they existed across race and I didn’t know how popular they were. The second thing [...]
And You Even Licked My Balls: A Black Feminist Note on Nate Dogg
Sunday, March 20th, 2011So I have been thinking of Nate Dogg in general but rap music in particular and the difference between how I as a Black woman and how White men relate to rap music. While I understand that sexism and patriarchy is systemic, that we LEARN and are taught how to be “men” and “women,” how [...]
Mommas, Artists and Interns: All Expected to Work for Free
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011On the train a couple of weeks ago, I had an epiphany. I was tripping off of the notion of the student intern, and how that socializes young people to accept working for free. @RafiKam and I have had several conversations on twitter about who is an artist, who should get paid to be an [...]
I had an Awesome Meeting with my Adviser and…
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011…we are on the same page and I am hella juiced, because I know that my ability to connect with her means that I will do what I need to do to get everything done. I am working on an interdiscplinary paper on Black Women’s sexuality and I was on her shit list, two weeks [...]
On Energy y Energy Conduits
Monday, March 14th, 2011Yesterday I was speaking to a White man neuroscientist, and he said three things that kind of blew me. First, he said that our brains use up most of the nutrients that we derive from our food. I had always known that low income mommas had babies with birth defects but this totally lays it [...]
Frying Pan into the Fire….
Monday, March 14th, 2011Image Courtesy Allison Achauer Well. Today, I graded papers, made a mid term spread sheet and emailed it on time. Phew. Spoke to my college roommate (first person I EVAR shared a room with) and told her I had NO idea how she went to graduate school for a Ph.D at 22. This shit is [...]
20 Question’s Wednesday 3.9.11
Wednesday, March 9th, 20111. What is it so hard for people to think in terms of the group rather than the individual? 2. Why $100 don’t last? 3. Why Red soda taste so good? 4. Did you read Latoya’s ‘Miss. Nigga’ piece? 5. Why my time with Josephine last fall seem like a blur? 6. Why I tell [...]
Aquemini’s Helium Balloon
Sunday, March 6th, 2011The last time I chilled with Aquemini, Green Eyes said being around the two of us is like being in a helium balloon and boy was she right. After I left him yesterday I felt like I had Coltrane withdrawals, what every that fees like. However, it was nice to be able to just be [...]
