in particular the line of...Earlier 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 [...]
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On Mambu Badu and Black Girl Problems Tumblr x Essence’s New White Male Editor
Thursday, July 14th, 2011Arielle Loren Asks “Is Beyonce the Face of Contemporary Feminism?” My Response
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011We need to be clear about who we are trying to be equal to. In her blog post Arielle Loren asserts that most women do not identify as being feminists even if they share its core ideologies, that there has been a shift in the contemporary agenda for women’s equality and that women are tired [...]
Quoted “Pimp’s Up Ho’s Down”
Sunday, January 17th, 2010“I am not afrocentric, I am just natural. But in this country, black women who don’t straighten their hair with chemical processing are stereotyped and labeled. Not all Black women with striaght hair need chemical processing, but I would have to to achieve that look. Just because we don’t straighten our hair doesn’t mean we’re [...]
