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3 Questions on Art and Desire

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Is my work such an integral part of me, that if you don’t get it, I can’t fuck with you?

Is this being dogmatic? Or am I just being honest?

Would I even have to ask myself these questions if I were born male?

These questions came out a conversation with @hotcombpics this morning.

As many of you know I have written about accepting the fact that as much as I hate Bleek Gilliam, I have serious Bleek Gilliam tendencies…hence my hate.

We hate the shit we hate because it reminds us of ourselves.

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As a Black girl in East Oakland, I had to learn to think critically on my feet as Oakland went from pretty Black town to Crackzilla monster overnight in 1986. Why does this time period matter and how is it related? For me it speaks to how I had the develop the courage to trust myself and my instincts. About people, about relationships, when and where to walk, whether or not to go to a party, whether or not to challenge a person as they may have a gun and me talking back could mean losing my life.

In someways my willingness to stand up for myself is rooted in the fact that the cost of learning to think critically is that I can’t do it any other way now.

If I learned to trust my instincts at 15, I can’t stop doing it at 30, even if trusting them means that people don’t know what the fuck I am talking about, or even if it means going against the grain, even it it means losing a friendship that I cherish.

#damnGina.

File this under the costs of being a high achieving Black girl.

Thoughts?

Quirky Black Girl Manifesta

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Clockwise: Zora Neal Hurston, Betty Davis, ZZ Packer, Alice Walker

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Many online spaces traffic in trashing Black women,
so I was excited when I came across Quirky Black Girls.

The sites purpose and intent made all the more sense,
when I learned that it was created by Moya B., the Spelmanite
who, along with others, criticized Nelly’s request to have
bone marrow drive on the Spelman campus while refusing to
have a conversation about the images of Black women in his
videos, namely, Tip Drill.

The site reflects a Black Feminist Politic. Given this, often
times when you go to a website, and the topic is race or
gender you can feel you blood pressure rising.

QBG is different because while the members of the sites
offer critiques that may be reactionary, the members focus
most of their time on talking about ways of being, ways of living,
and loving the fact that we Black and quirky. Here is the manifesta:

Because Audre Lorde looks different in every picture ever taken of her. Because Octavia Butler didn’t care. Because Erykah Badu is a patternmaster. Because Macy Gray pimped it and Janelle Mon?e was ready.

Resolved. Quirky black girls wake up ready to wear a tattered society new on our bodies, to hold fragments of art, culture and trend in our hands like weapons against conformity, to walk on cracks instead of breaking our backs to fit in the mold.

We’re here, We’re Quirky, Get used to it!

…. Quirky Black girls don’t march to the beat of our own drum; we hop, skip, dance, and move to rhythms that are all our own. We make our own drums out of empty lunchboxes, full imaginations and number 3 pencils.

Quirky Black girls are not quirky because they like white shit; rather they understand that because they like it, it is not the sole province of whiteness.

Quirky black girls are the answer to the promise that black means everything, birthing and burning a new world every time.

Sound it out. Quirky, like queer and key, different and priceless, turning and open. Black, not be lack but black one word shot off the tongue like blap, bam, black. Girl, like the curl in a hand turning towards itself to snap, write, hold or emphasize. Quirky. Black. Girl. You see us. Act like you know.

We demand that our audiences say “yes-sir-eee” if they agree and we answer our own question “What good do your words do, if they don’t understand you?” by speaking anyway, even if our words are “bruised and misunderstood.”

Quirky black girls are hot!
Whether you’re ready to see it or not.

Quirky means rejecting a particular type of “value,” a certain unreadiness for consumption and subsumption in an economy of black heterocapital. This means that Quirky Black Girls act independently of dominant social norms or standards of beauty. So fierce that others may not be able to appreciate us just yet.

No matter what age we are, we hold onto that girlhood drive for adventure, love for friends, independent spirit, wacky sense of humor, and hope for the future.

Quirky Black Girls resist boxes in favor of over lapping circles with permeable membranes that allow them to ebb and flow through their multiple identities.

Quirky Black Girls- Embrace the quirky!

In a word. Awesome.

What do you think of the Manifesta?

Seen anything quirky lately?

I’m cross posting this to Brooklyn Magic.