Heart is broken. But I am free. And perhaps, most importantly, I have been transformed. I am stubborn and typically only listen once I hit a bottom, I also listen if two different people tell me the same thing, I listen to the person I am dating, I listen to people who are more spiritually [...]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013New Model Minority: The Book Survey….Questions for Those Who Filled it Out in 2011:)
Saturday, December 15th, 2012So. About 30 of you filled out the survey which is wonderful, but I don’t know who you are. Let’s remedy this. Send me an e-mail to m.dotwrites dot gmail or you can fill out the Nmm labs form here to receive updates. Thank you again for filling it out. When I have thought of [...]
Big Announcement: New Blogs – Race in DC.com and BlackGirlEverything.com
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012As many of you know I fractured my wrist in a car accident earlier this year. In the above photo I am at breakfast, having been out of the hospital for about a week. The wrist fracture sucked not only because my wrist was broken, but because it set me back in terms of my [...]
Black Women’s Hair & Gabby Douglas: Standing Straight in a Crooked Room
Saturday, August 4th, 2012In the book, Sister Citizen, Dr. Melissa Harris Perry argues that many Black women in the US find themselves standing straight in a crooked room because of how we experience both racism and sexism. According to Harris-Perry, Black women are standing straight in a crooked room when they are confronting race and gender stereotypes, black [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On Black Women’s Sexuality
Saturday, February 4th, 2012The second time that I saw Pariah I decided to change my paper’s title, or even to give it a proper title because of the direction the paper is taking. The working title is “I am Not Broken, I am Open: Toward Hetergenous Representations of Black Women’s Sexuality”. After walking around with a notebook [...]
On Mambu Badu and Black Girl Problems Tumblr x Essence’s New White Male Editor
Thursday, July 14th, 2011Earlier 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 [...]
A Tale of Two Lauryns: Why We Feel Entitled to Lauryn Hill.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011Note: I wrote this post last week, before she announced her pregnancy. #allcity. One of the reason’s why I think we are incapable of letting Lauryn go, or understanding why she has chosen her family work over her artistic work is that we do not see parenting as work. I have friends whose parents provided [...]
