Black Girls Are From The Future Meet and Greet: Event Photos

On Saturday July 20th, 2013, one of my dreams came true. We celebrated the work of Mambu Badu Photography Collective and the release of my new book Black Girls Are from the Future: Essays on Race Digital Creativity and Pop Culture.
For those of you who were able to make it out to the event in that hot sweltering heat, I really appreciate it. For those of you who were there in spirit, you are appreciated too!

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You can buy the book Black Girls are from the Future: Essays on Race, Digital Creativity and Pop Culture on Amazon and Big Cartel.

 

 

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The new edition of the “Black Girls are from the Future” tote bags are here as well. This version is larger, brown and cotton! You can buy these at Big Cartel as well. There is a limited number of t-shirts available in small, medium and large.

More event photos are available on Facebook, BlackGirlsArefromtheFuture.com and NewModelMinority.com.

Hip Hop Feminisms: Digital Black Feminisms – An Archive by Renina Jarmon

There has been a substantial amount of work created at the intersection of Digital Black Feminisms and Hip Hop Feminisms over the last five or so years. While finishing my book Black Girls Are From the Future: Essays on Race Digital Creativity and Pop Culture I realized that a lot of the contemporary and cutting edge work currently done at this intersection is happening on the internet (thank you to @zandria for pointing this out!)  I also realized that I have written nearly 30 blog posts written at this intersection.  Some of the work is awful and I am not proud of it, some of the work is awesome, in that I am pushing the limits on race, gender and sexuality in hip hop within the public sphere. There are also moments where it seemed as though I was writing to stay alive.

I decided to make the beginnings of an archive of this work so that this history isn’t obscured, lost or rendered irrelevant like so much of the work created by our Black feminist foremothers. My rationale is that in archiving our work, I archive theirs too, because we would not exist without the Black feminists and womanists who came before us. Please leave additional articles, blog posts that I may have missed in the comments section. #StakesIsHigh.

BLOG POSTS AND ARTICLES – Hip Hop Feminisms: Digital Black Feminisms

Beyonce Says Big Ego, but Ruth says, “Eat your [damn] eggs, Walter Lee” by Fallon W, 2009.

Chris Brown is Effing Up My Sex Life by Crunktastic, 2011

And You Even Licked My Balls: A Black Feminist Note on Nate Dogg by Renina Jarmon, 2011

Is Beyonce the Face of Contemporary Feminism? by Arielle Loren, 2011

On Being Feminisms Ms. N-I-G-G-A by Latoya Peterson, 2011

Nicki Minaj: The Flyest Feminist by April Gregory, 2011

First You Gotta Put Your Neck Into It: Loving Pariah by Andreana Clay, 2012

Ooh La La La: Reflections on Lady T by Andreana Clay, 2010

Hip Hop, Patriarchy: My Struggles with Mobb Deep by Renina Jarmon, 2008

by Arielle Loren

Dear Old Morehouse, by 2009 L’Heureux Dumi Lewis-McCoy

Feminism and Hip Hop Blogs: An Uneasy Marriage by Renina Jarmon, 2011

On the Mean Girls of Morehouse, by Moya Bailey, 2010

On Eddie Long and NWNW, by Moya Bailey, 2010

Really Regis, by Moya Bailey, 2011

Musing on Genealogies, Sex, Digital Black Feminisms by Renina Jarmon, 2011

Why Jay Electronica Can Choke on His Own Words by Crunktastic, 2010

Beyond/With Precious: Black Women Incest and Rape by Renina Jarmon and Moya Bailey, 2010

For Colored Bloggers Who Consider Racism and Sexism by Renina Jarmon, 2010

On Ashely Judd and The Politics of Citation by Moya Bailey, 2011

My Daddy Ain’t No Feminist by Renina Jarmon, 2010

I Know Why Zane Sells by Renina Jarmon, 2008

Why People Hate 808’s and Heartbreak by Renina Jarmon, 2008

We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For, Young Black Feminists Take Their Research and Activism Online by Moya Bailey and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, 2010

Students At Spellman College Protest Nelly’s Video ‘Tip Drill by Moya Bailey, 2005.

Tricks Getting Whipped: Race, Class, and the “Politics of Obliteration” in Memphis by Zandria Robinson, 2013

Carry on Tradition by Britni Danielle, 2010

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DOCUMENTARIES, VIDEOS AND FILMS – Hip Hop Feminisms: Digital Black Feminisms

Beyond Beats and Rhymes dir. by Byron Hurt

My Mic Sounds Nice dir. by Ava Duvernay (Check here, here and here too.)

Black Woman Walking dir. by Tracey Rose

Say My Name dir. by Nirit Peled

Who’s that Girl: Women of Color in Hip Hop dir. by Nuala Cabral

Barack and Curtis by Byron Hurt

Walking Home by  Nuala Cabral

Hey Shorty by Girls For Gender Equity, 2009

Hollaback Interview: Nuala Cabral by HollaBackPhilly, 2011

BOOKS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES – Hip Hop Feminisms

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost:My Life As a Hip Hop Feminist by Joan Morgan, 1999.

Home Girls Make Some Noise edited by Gwendolyn Pough, 2007. (Synopsis here.)

Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership and Hip Hop Culture by Yvonne Bynoe, 2004.

From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism by Patricia Hill Collins, 2006.

Nappy Happy: A Conversation Between Ice Cube and Angela Davis by Angela Davis,  1992

 bell hooks Interview by Lawrence Chua, 1994

Wish To Live: The Hip-hop Feminism Pedagogy Reader edited by Ruth Nicole Brown and Chamara Jewel Kwakye, 2012.

Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak by Bettina L. Love, 2012.

Mapping the Intersections: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw, 1993

Black Noise by Tricia Rose, 1994

Hip Hop Wars by Tricia Rose, 2008

Hip Hop Matters, Craig Watkins, 2006

The Fire This Time, Young Activists and The New Feminism edited by , 2004

Colonize This!:Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism edited by Daisey Hernandez and Bushra Rehman, 2002

Pimps Up, Hoes Down: Hip Hops Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, 2008

Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones, 1997

 

Peace to the Person in Ashburn,Virginia Who is Digging Through My Archives.

I see you.

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My Kanye Ramblings…Why Because I?…For Reasons

Yesterday there was an interview in the NY Times featuring Kanye West. I had several thoughts about it but there were three that that stuck with me. The first, is that Kanye is one of the only Black men in pop culture who continues to evolve publicly, in real time, while remaining squarely in front of his narrative.

Second, a big part of Kanye’s public evolution has to do with his willingness to be vulnerable and emotional, publicly. He is willing to be vulnerable, honest and wrong. When I say emotional I don’t mean full of rage, there is space for Black men to do that in pop culture, in fact some folks expect it.  In fact way back in 2008, I wrote about his willingness to be vulnerable with the album 808’s and Heartbreak.

Last, I realized that a huge portion of the public sphere conversations about art don’t pivot around Black artists who put their craft first. On Twitter, we talk about Scandal (and Shonda Rhimes certainly puts her craft first but our conversations on Twitter aren’t about that dimension of her work), we talk about Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, we talk about rap music lyrics if they are inflammatory. But Black visual artists who are craft first!?!? But perhaps  one of the issues playing a role here is privilege, my own personal privilege that I need to own in this conversation. By privilege I mean the ability to know, study and read about Black artists who are craft first. When I think about Black artists who are craft first the folks who come to mind are Ava Duvernay, Wangechi Mutu, Sanford Biggers, Bradford Young,  Dee Rees, Aisha Simmons (who is on and engaged on Twitter). This list isn’t exhaustive, these are the folks who came to mind. I am not saying that they don’t have online presence, they do, what I am saying is that reading that Kanye article made me wonder, where are the artistic conversations by young(er) established and emerging artists in 2013? Or perhaps the conversations exist and I am slipping. If you are aware of such conversations, please link me, I’d Love to see them.

If a huge portion of the Black public sphere is happening on the internet, and this is MY observation, then what does it mean if we don’t see these artists in these spaces having conversations. Or is the issue also of one around time, space and labor. In other words, if you are too busy shooting documentaries, shooting photographs, writing novels, creating web series, creating multi-media work, then you simply may not have the time to be on Twitter.
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Social media is labor.

Anyhoo, just some thoughts that the Kanye interview had me thinking about.

I guess also has me thinking that as I move forward with the book and the doc, one of the questions rattling around in my head is whether will the historic spaces that I have visited and participated in, will they feel the same? Will the internet conversations be enough?

Black Girls Are Certainly From the Future…Book Update…(Tentative)Table of Contents List

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Strap in your seat belts, because this list is a doozy and it is completely me, and a record of our long relationship as a community!!! Can you believe that it is happening!?!?!
Race
1. On the Steve Harvey Industrial Complex (Blog Post)
2. Twerking, Ratchet and the Politics of Black Respectability: What Exactly Can We Teach Black Girls About Black Women’s Sexuality? (New)
3. Ta-Nehisi Asks If for Colored Girls is a Classic, My Response (Blog Post)
4. Gabby Douglass, Black Women’s Natural Hair and Standing Straight in a Crooked Room (Blog Post)
5. The Miseducation of All City: An Essay  on Race, East Oakland and Prep School (New)
6. A Black feminist Response to Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In (New)
7. Thinking About the Possibilities and Limitations of Teaching Black Girls to Code (New)
8. The Politics of Teaching Kids of Color How to Fail (Blog Post)

Digital Creativity

1. How I Used the Internet to Find My Voice, Claim My Tribe And Build My Brand (New)
2. 5 Key Business Points for Artists: 5 Minute MBA for Your Brand (New)
3. Rafi Kam x Okay Player x Community (Blog Post)
4. In 2009 I asked ‘Is a Black Web Browser Racist’? What About Algorithims in 2013? (Blog Post Revisited)
5. Black Women, Digital Creativity and Entrepreneurship (New)
6. On Claiming My Voice as a Writer and Business: The Politics of Getting in Front of Your Story (New)

Pop Culture

1. Whitney Houston and Genius (Blog Post)

2. Are Black Men Really That Homophobic? Thinking About Conversations on Kanye’s Attire (Blog Post Revisited)

3. Arielle Loren Asks Whether Beyonce is the Contemporary Face of Feminism: My Response (Blog Post)

4. Viola Davis’s Natural Hair At the Oscars (Blog Post)
5. And You Even Licked My Balls: A Black Feminist Note on Nate Dogg (Blog Post)
6. Yes Black, White, Asian and Latino Men: Feminism is Here for You Too! (New)

7. Thinking About Need, Desire and Politics of Naming Beyonce a Feminist (New)

8. Musing on Makode Linde and That Cake (Blog Post)

The Black Girls Are From the Future & Friends Meet and Greet is in the final planning stages for July 20th, 2013. Sign up here to receive an invite. I will never spam you 🙂

This is an epic undertaking. However I knew it was possible last winter when I began to COMPILE the blog posts, and I was able to see, in Black and White,  how much I had written. The issue then became, not the process of writing but actually conceptualizing what this book would look like, how I would organize the various essays and creating a process and space to get it done.

Thank you for traveling with me. Leave a question or comment below.

Love,

Reneens