One of the reasons why I have devoted nearly a year and half to working on a project on Black women’s sexuality is because I am sick and tired of Black men speaking for us. Telling our stories. Stories help us to understand who we are. Stories are how we make sense of the world. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘For Colored Girls Who Considered Homicide’
On Black Men Telling Our Stories?
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011For Colored Girls Blog Carnival
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010via (Crunk Feminist Collective) Dear QBG/CFC Bloggers, Friends,?colleagues, and more, With the premiere of Tyler Perry?s?For Colored Girls approaching,?we at?Quirky Black Girls are planning a?blog carnival concerning the movie. A blog carnival consists of hosting a webpage where linked blog posts discuss a similar subject. We know that many people are going to blog about [...]
Black Male Privilege x Male Privilege
Sunday, August 1st, 2010This piece is dedicated to Michele, T.Dot, John, and Pepe Shout out to Bianca for the above image. While on an awesome date last weekend, Pepe hesitated, then proceeded to challenge me on the idea of Black Male Privilege. He didn’t want to because he suspected that it would derail the date. It didn’t. In [...]
Musing on The Window Seat Video
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Earlier today, I was on the phone with Bacon Grits, chit chatting,planning my outfit, my day, flirting, and he asked me I had seen the Window Seat video?? I continued looking for my fuchsia leggings, turned it on, put him on speaker, and continued to chat.? I sat down in front of the computer half [...]
Badun’em is a Verb
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Basquiat, is one of my favorites, along with Frida, Renee Cox, Kara Walker, Faith Ringgold, Michelle Wallace, Klimt, Rothko , Chuck Close There is something liberating about being around someone who is clear that “everyone has a right to be who they are.” Last month, while speaking to Supreme, we got into it about the [...]
Hip Hop is a Masculine Space
Monday, March 1st, 2010Peace to Vince Lopez How did I get into hip hop as a feminist? As a teenager, I found, in the early 90′s that the cool kids, at least the ones I wanted to be liked by where into hip hop. Furthermore, as I got older, and got into The Source, but Fridah, Basquiat and [...]
Re- All That Crack I Sold, I Lied.
Monday, May 4th, 2009Incarcerated Scarfaces Part 1 Of 6 – The funniest movie is here. Find it“Can you just imagine going to jail in 1989 and them telling you yourelease date is February 2004? Its crazy.” Malice Video Blog 1 from Malice of the Clipse on Vimeo. It has certainly been a week. Saturday, I finally realized that [...]
Asher Roth and Why Rappers Need "Nappy Headed Ho’s"
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Beyond Beats and Rhymes, by Bryon Hurt28:20 sec Women respond to being called Bitch’s on the street at BET’s Spring Bling 29:43 sec “If George Bush called you a Nigga you would think he was talking about you.”43:00 sec “You can’t go to a label with self destruction, you will self destruct.”46:10 sec Jadakiss, “after [...]
A Visualization of NWA’s "A Bitch is a Bitch" using Manyeyes
Sunday, April 19th, 2009Every since I did the chart on humanity in the hooda few days ago, I have been thinking about a visualization ofrap lyrics. Above is a visualization of NWA’s “A Bitch is a Bitch.“ I was recently reading one of Bol’s post’s about womenin the rap game and I found myself wanting to count the [...]
Michael Baisden is a Misogynist Pig
Friday, April 10th, 2009I was riding through Ohio the other day on a road trip toMichigan. Filthy was looking for NPR when we settled on the Michael Baisden show. I was intrigued because the show was aboutwhether a woman, a wife, has the right to “Go on Strike”andhold out on sex from her husband. Seeing as my researchinterests [...]
