For comps, I read Clarie Moses’s “What’s In a Name?” On Writing the History of Feminism” this weekend. What is fascinating is that she discusses the history of the word feminism, what exactly do we mean when we use the term feminism to describe women’s organizing activities and is it legitimate to call someone a [...]
Archive for July, 2011
On the History of the Word “Feminist” and How It is Used.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011Walgreens is Going to Sell #WhiteGroceries?- Race, Food and the City
Monday, July 25th, 2011I just came from the local co-op where a half gallon of organic milk was nearly $5.00 and the cereal, much of which looked like granola and berries was $5.00 as well. I like granola in yogurt. I DO NOT like granola as cereal. I had a $5-6 budget for cereal and milk this morning. [...]
The City is Like Chitlins: Notes on Gentrification in Washington, DC.
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Peace to Janel for staying on me to write about class. Peace to Latoya Peterson for reminding me to think about how cities are similar, different and the reasons why DC, with it’s 25 miles, is special to me. I once said that the city was like chitlin’s. Moving from the deep South to DC, [...]
Race, Class and Prostitution in the City: Washington DC’s Black Madam- Odessa Madre
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011For @AlaiaWilliams for continuing to remind me to write this. Readers are a precious commodity. In the essay “Working for Nothing but a Living” Dr. Sharon Harley describes the life of Odessa Madre, a dark skinned Black woman who became a Madam in the 1940′s because as a high school graduate, who as dark skinned [...]
On White Men and Their Fascination with Odd Future
Thursday, July 14th, 2011Looking for a database of Odd Future’s lyrics, I came across this article last fall in The Voice by Zach Baron. I remember reading it, but I didn’t have the head space to process and write about it. Baron writes, To condemn Odd Future for their lyrics we’d have to talk about Eminem, Cam’ron (unspeakable [...]
On Mambu Badu and Black Girl Problems Tumblr x Essence’s New White Male Editor
Thursday, July 14th, 2011Earlier this year I said that Mambu Badu was the freshest thing since Honey Magazine. The Quirky Black Girl magazine from 2000 that articles on Lil Kim and Lauryn Hill. The articles seemed to reflect a vision of Black girls that wasn’t as focused on racial uplift, natural hair guides, and finding a “good Black [...]
Making Connections between Odd Future x Jay Z x Beyonce
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011In my head I have been trying to make sense of Beyonce, Jay-Z and Odd Future and how audiences have received, accepted and criticized their work. I have written about Beyonce here and here. Jay-Z here. I add Odd Future because I have yet to see a feminist analysis of them and I am theorizing that there is a [...]
A Feminist Analysis of Sheryl Sandberg and the ‘Male Dominated’ Silicon Valley
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011In a society organized by and for men, it makes sense for women to be exluded from pursuing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). STEM research and jobs spur the innovation for our Capitalist economic system. You can’t have innovation, at least how we are thought to conceive of it, without STEM. Which leads me [...]
Tip Your Servers, It is How We Survive.
Thursday, July 7th, 2011#Dedicated to Jerm the Perm and to everyone else on that shift work for tips. For the last two summers I have worked as a waitress at some point. #AutonomyisExpensive. Depending on the state in which you live, a restaurant may pay a server between $2 and $4 dollars an hour. This means that servers [...]
On Black Men Telling Our Stories?
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011One of the reasons why I have devoted nearly a year and half to working on a project on Black women’s sexuality is because I am sick and tired of Black men speaking for us. Telling our stories. Stories help us to understand who we are. Stories are how we make sense of the world. [...]
