in particular the line of...I 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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘#blackgirlsarefromthefuture’
10 Things I Learned from Jaron Lanier’s “You Are Not A Gadget”
Sunday, April 1st, 2012On 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 [...]
Arielle Loren Asks “Is Beyonce the Face of Contemporary Feminism?” My Response
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011We need to be clear about who we are trying to be equal to. In her blog post Arielle Loren asserts that most women do not identify as being feminists even if they share its core ideologies, that there has been a shift in the contemporary agenda for women’s equality and that women are tired [...]
Black Feminist Love x Black Feminist Sex
Thursday, April 7th, 2011A few weeks ago I was on a date with Mr. Playful, on the third try of attempting to see that daggumit new Matt Damon flick. I was telling him that dating a Black feminist is awesome because yes means yes, no means no, and everything turns on consent. He just kinda looked at me [...]
Musing on the Genealogies x Sex x Digital Black Feminisms #BettaComeCorrect
Monday, April 4th, 2011On Friday, on the Crunkfeminists blog, Crunktastic wrote a post titled “How Chris Brown is Effing up my Sex Life: A B-Side to Dating While Feminist.” In the post, she discusses the challenges that Black feminist face when a #boosnack has some janky gender politics. As you can tell, I am clear on calling folks [...]
On Spirit and Other Things
Thursday, March 24th, 2011The information that you find will change you. The day started with a conversation with Bacon Grits where I confessed that he and I are different from most people in that we don’t rank human beings hierarchically, meaning that we treat people with a base level of respect. I also told him that I appreciated [...]
