The 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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘#blackgirlsarefromthefuture’
On Black Women’s Sexuality
Saturday, February 4th, 2012On 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 [...]
A Note Black Gender Relations in 2011
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011After writing that post on Nate Dogg, I spoke to Rob and learned that there is an entire dating blogosphere were men, Black and White, blog about their relationships. I always KNEW these blogs existed but I didn’t know that they existed across race and I didn’t know how popular they were. The second thing [...]
Thank you for Moya and Jessica.
Friday, February 18th, 2011For the last two years. Moya and Jessica have taken my calls, given me advice, listened to me while I was in tears and wanted to drop out. Listened to me deal with breaking up with Filthy, listened to me deal with what it means to be a graduate student in a Research 1 University. [...]
How Oakland Brought Me #Aquemini
Monday, February 14th, 2011On Saturday, I met #Aquemini. I was posted up, waiting for someone, doing me. He then spoke, and asked if I was a professor. I had just come from writing the midterm and reading so I had a bag of books next to my chair. I responded no, I am a teacher. I asked him [...]
