NY 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 [...]
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Why Black Women Film Directors?
Sunday, February 5th, 2012On Kim Kardashian’s Empire and Race
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011On Clutch Danielle Belton has an excellent and problematic post titled, “Celebrating the Black Beauty on White Women”. She discusses in general the politics of race and women’s bodies as well as the politics of White artists performing what has historically been seen as Black music (see Eminem, Elvis and Adele). I am really interested [...]
Black Relationship Politics: “Do You Believe Beyonce?”
Saturday, November 12th, 2011Perhaps it is because I finally listened to Watch the Throne. Or perhaps it is because I have been writing about Beyonce on this blog for what, three years now. Perhaps it is because I am smack dab in the middle of researching Black women’s sexuality. Perhaps it is because I hear Janelle Harris in [...]
On Black Women’s Sexuality
Friday, November 11th, 2011The way through the project is sharing it. So here I go. I have been reading Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower because @Kismetnunez recommended it and also learning about how Black women who I admire, dealt with racism and sexism helps me to deal with racism and sexism. Lord knows [...]
On Black Girls and Pleasure
Monday, November 7th, 2011Waaaaay back in 2008 I wrote a blog post in the summer time, right after we learned that Erykah Badu was pregnant with her little bear about the fact that Black women’s bodies do not belong to themselves. Looking back I realize that I was inspired by the fact that that in public people feel [...]
On Syd the Kid’s “Cocaine” Video
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011I have contended that in a world premised on oppressing women, openly Loving a woman is probably one of the most radical things you can do. The homie @danyeezy, just put me on to the new Syd the Kid video. Syd is the only woman member of OFWGKTA . @Danyeezy reblogged a link to Syd’s [...]
On the Racial and Gender Implications of Facebook’s “Timeline”.
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011Talk about the ways in which race and gender structures social media experiences. Peep. Suzanne Labarre writes at FastCo Design, Timeline, by contrast, includes an actual timeline, organized in tiles across two columns like a virtual noteboard, that lets you present your autobiography from birth to now. You do it in your own words and [...]
Will Learning How to Pole Dance Keep Your Hetero Man Out of the Strip Club?
Saturday, September 17th, 2011The homie Britni Danielle @ Clutch has an interesting article up, “Please, Baby Please” about the politics of Black heterosexual relationships. The piece starts off in response to an article by Janelle Harris “Whatever it Takes to Please a Man”. Janelle discusses how she considers that when her boo snack goes to the strip club [...]
What’s the Difference Between a “Ho”, Housewife and Your Sister?
Saturday, September 17th, 2011Nothing. I woke up thinking about the way the women are put into categories and are ranked hierarchically. For example, on any given Sunday in a barbershop, you can hear hetero African American men saying, “You can’t turn a “ho” into a housewife”. Or on any given Friday night you can find hetero Black women [...]
What’s the Difference Between a “Ho”, a Housewife, and Your Sister?
Saturday, September 17th, 2011Nothing. I woke up thinking about the way the women are put into categories and are ranked hierarchically. For example, on any given Sunday in a barbershop, you can hear hetero African American men saying, “You can’t turn a “ho” into a housewife”. Or on any given Friday night you can find hetero Black women [...]
