One of the things that surprised me most about the death of Whitney Houston was the vitriol directed at her in some White mainstream Internet spaces. Many of the comments struck me as being both racist and sexist. I understand that both racism and sexism exists, but I always leave room for myself to to [...]
Archive for February, 2012
On Seeing Black Women’s Genius: For Whitney Houston
Sunday, February 26th, 2012On How “The Secret Life of Bee’s” Used 4 Black Women to tell a White Girl’s Story
Monday, February 20th, 2012I saw The Secret Life of Bee’s (TSLB) yesterday and I couldn’t helped but be struck by two things. First, the tone of TSLB was extremely similar to the tone of The Help. From the color palate of the sets, to the language and how folks moved and the music. TSLB was directed by a [...]
Why Black Women Film Directors?
Sunday, February 5th, 2012NY Times article on Black Film in the early 1990′s titled “They’ve Gotta Have Us” by Karen Grigsby Bates Note: There will be a few blog posts on Pariah and Black women’s directors over the next few weeks as I move like a squirrel with a flashlight trying to finish this paper. I cannot have [...]
On Black Women’s Sexuality
Saturday, February 4th, 2012The second time that I saw Pariah I decided to change my paper’s title, or even to give it a proper title because of the direction the paper is taking. The working title is “I am Not Broken, I am Open: Toward Hetergenous Representations of Black Women’s Sexuality”. After walking around with a notebook [...]
