Image via Metro Times Dedicated to Jonzey and our conversations about Hennessy / Carol’s Daughters sponsored art. This post is about money, artists and how corporations are deliberate and never neutral. Spending the last few months teaching a multiracial group of young people about race, art, class, history and feminism, I have learned a lot [...]
Archive for December, 2011
The Choices that Creatives Make
Saturday, December 31st, 2011On Kim Kardashian’s Empire and Race
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011On Clutch Danielle Belton has an excellent and problematic post titled, “Celebrating the Black Beauty on White Women”. She discusses in general the politics of race and women’s bodies as well as the politics of White artists performing what has historically been seen as Black music (see Eminem, Elvis and Adele). I am really interested [...]
What Awkward Black Girl and Trans Women Have Taught Me About Black Gender Politics
Friday, December 9th, 2011Where in the hell do I begin? I will just start with me and the two questions that have been on my mind since Moya (and I believe a loose collective of folks) wrote the criticism of Awkward Black Girl‘s usage of transphobic and homophobic language in a recent episode of the web series Awkward [...]
