in particular the line of...I have a couple of ideas I have been cooking up, every shut eye ain’t sleep. I am bringing my blog into my dissertation so I can blog again, and not feel like that work is impeding my other work. It is a tenuous process but I feel that I have more to gain if [...]
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Creating Smart and Funky Black Girl Spaces Online….What I Have Been Up to in the Back Channel.
Sunday, May 20th, 2012HBO’s [White] Girls, White Feminism and How It’s Connected to Think Like a Man
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012I know you are thinking #allcity, how in the hell is the connected? It is, trust. So yesterday, Andrea on Racialicious posted on tumblr about a writer, Aymer, who feels that while Girls is White, it isn’t the Lena Dunham’s problem. Dunham created the show. Here is part of Aymer’s post, I think the show [...]
Thinking about Black Women in Fim ….”Think Like A Man” and Others
Monday, April 23rd, 2012Think Like a Man made $33M in revenue this weekend. Friday I saw Think Like a Man (blog post forthcoming). On Saturday I had a realllllllly long conversation with @starfishandcoffee on Twitter about the narrow representation of Black women in films, about the pervasiveness of patriarchal narratives featuring Black women in mainstream media (Think Like [...]
10 Things I Learned from Jaron Lanier’s “You Are Not A Gadget”
Sunday, April 1st, 2012I have been wanting to blog about this book for three months now. o.0 Jaron Lanier is known as the father of virtual reality. Essentially the book asks the reader to think about the design of the internet and Lanier also asks the reader to question the idea of the wisdom of the crowds. Lastly [...]
Reconciling the Non-Profit “Post Industrial” Complex with Black Girls in Mind
Friday, March 30th, 2012Who is Anna Julia Cooper? Click here to learn more. Awesome FIRST wave Black Feminist. On Monday, I went to visit the Score Small business mentoring office to learn about the benefits and limits of a 501 (c) (3 versus an LLC or a conventional corp. #planning. #wingsup. I was REALLY surprised to learn that [...]
On the {Sexual} Politics of Viola Davis’s Natural Hair at the Oscars
Friday, March 16th, 2012It wasn’t until my homie Gisele, a Black woman and working actress pointed out to me that Viola Davis graduated from Julliard in the late 80′s, that my growing obsession with Davis began to make sense. In Davis, I saw myself. I saw the struggles of so many Black women who try to remain whole [...]
On Seeing Black Women’s Genius: For Whitney Houston
Sunday, February 26th, 2012One 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 [...]
On 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 [...]
