in particular the line of...I am in the process of laying out the foundation for starting a women of color policy and news blog. I get sick and tired of the janky way that rape, sexual harassment, the debate around food stamps and “domestic” violence are framed, discussed, archived and shaped. I personally think we can do better. Ann [...]
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Starting a Women of Color Policy and News Blog
Monday, June 13th, 2011And You Even Licked My Balls: A Black Feminist Note on Nate Dogg
Sunday, March 20th, 2011So I have been thinking of Nate Dogg in general but rap music in particular and the difference between how I as a Black woman and how White men relate to rap music. While I understand that sexism and patriarchy is systemic, that we LEARN and are taught how to be “men” and “women,” how [...]
I told that man…
Sunday, March 6th, 2011two weeks ago that I was done, and getting off the ride. Of all the people I met around this time last year, I am on speaking terms with everyone. We cool, if we see each other we say wassup. If they call I pick up. If I call them they call I pick up. [...]
Kill Me or Leave Me Alone: Street Harassment as a Public Health Issue
Sunday, March 6th, 2011This one is for Afrolicious and the notion of Appophenia. Last Saturday on the way home on the metro platform I was tired. I had been dancing. Bier was consumed. I spent the afternoon reading, and the evening posted up with my friend All Spirit and then the night dancing. All Spirit bounced early, and [...]
How Oakland Brought Me #Aquemini
Monday, February 14th, 2011On Saturday, I met #Aquemini. I was posted up, waiting for someone, doing me. He then spoke, and asked if I was a professor. I had just come from writing the midterm and reading so I had a bag of books next to my chair. I responded no, I am a teacher. I asked him [...]
The Politics of Making a “Black Film” in Obama’s America
Monday, January 31st, 2011Image of director Kasi Lemmons courtesy of Professor Sussoro’s Blog Last fall I tweeted that a barometer of Black women’s freedom would be their ability to control, tell, and distribute their own stories. Having seen Push, and now For Colored Girls, two movies based on texts written by Black women about Black women, but directed [...]
On Raising Babies and Leaving Lovers
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011A photo he took of me Labor Day Weekend @ Havana’s. This man made me look like Zora. #Tears. #Ummhmm. Dedicated to @mistmattnash I don’t know what to say. I realized two nights ago that I am grieving the fact that I just walked away from someone who is father material. We are still friends [...]
On My Mothers Language
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011One of the things that you have to get use to when you meet me is my colorful use of language. It’s sprinkled with Spanish, bear language, slang, feminist theory, Mobb Deep quotes and some occasional Biggie rhymes. It’s fun. I have been wanting to write this post for a while. But I think that [...]
Misogyny and Genius: Assange + R. Kelly
Monday, December 27th, 2010Image via New Black Man. During my birthday a couple of years ago I was posted up in Philly with Filthy in that awesome Barnes and Nobles on U Penn’s campus. The Roman Polanski rape charges were being debated in the New York Times and some folks were defending him saying that it wasn’t “rape-rape”, [...]
Men are Fragile :: Humans are Fragile
Saturday, December 18th, 2010In the name of all things vulnerable and fearless. The other night I had dinner with a friend. I am glad I followed my intuition and reach out to him because as soon as he sat down he told me that his mom had recently passed and apologized for not sharing it sooner. I am [...]
