Saturday I was talking to my daddy and was catching him up on my week. I told him I was reading this awesome book on Billie Holiday, If You Can’t Be Free Be a Mystery by Farah Griffin, and that I was having a public conversation with another writer, a Black man, about the importance [...]
Posts Tagged ‘For Colored Girls’
My Daddy Ain’t No Feminist
Monday, November 22nd, 2010Musing on Steve Harvey and Black Women
Monday, May 3rd, 2010^^Thowback For Colored Girls Two things have me thinking about doing an oral history project on Black Women’s Sexuality/ Life Choices. The first is reading this line today on sexuality and race in early Philadephia in Sex and the Rabble, An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of? Revolution, Philadelphia 1730-1830. “White [...]
“Your Man is Lucky”
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010On the train tonight, I doubled backed to go and look for an earring that I lost. If you know me, you know my earring game is serious. I like them. They are little artistic pieces that I can wear everyday. So. I was on a mission. I’m exciting the train station and a man, [...]
Dating Sans Patriarchy: A Black Man is not His Paycheck
Monday, April 26th, 2010In the comment section of my Musing on Harry Allen post, two Black men stated that they agreed with my date, that he should? be able to walk on the outside, etc. This kind of thinking goes to the heart of patriarchal ideals which basically says that “because I have a vagina” I should be [...]
Musing on Harry Allen, Black Nationalism and Black Feminism
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Barkley L. Hendricks Sweet Thang (Lynn Jenkins) Yesterday,? I had a conversation on Twitter with @harryallen, about Black nationalism and Black and White feminism, It all started when I tweeted: If White feminist examined the ways in which they were dominated by white men more closely, they would have more solidarity w/ Black feminist. Harry [...]
Aye Blood…….
Sunday, March 7th, 2010I am old enough to know that it will go away. But damn Gina if I don’t miss my friend. Tonight, I am working on a review of 5 years of a feminist journal. I got stacks of papers, outlines, mo’ stacks of papers. The goal is for us to start thinking about the places [...]
Jay Z, Dyson and Me
Thursday, June 11th, 2009For Hip Hop News & Entertainment at DimeWars.Com Jim Jones on Jay Z @ 1:18 seconds I was on Twitter last week when the New Jay Z song, Death of Autotune broke. But peep, I didn’t listen to it until Sunday.
The Failure of the Strong Black Woman
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009One of surefire ways of avoiding victimhood isasking for what you need. This, can be a tremendously difficult thing to do, simply because you make yourself vulnerable to being rejected. That being said, as a tool for getting out of victim hood thinking, I have begun to ask people for things with I need. For [...]
Michelle Wallace and Illmatic
Thursday, December 25th, 2008The World Is Yours (Remix) Rare is the person who can conceptualize the hood,in all its pain, beauty and promise. Two pieces that do this are Nas’s Illmatic andMichele Wallaces, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman.Whats strikes me about both pieces is that they illicit anemotional response. In addition, Black Macho is particularlymoving [...]
The Silence of Black Women Writers
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Black writers are a cursed lot. By its virtue of its origin, suture and function, black writing ismission conscious and is necessarily a hazardous undertaking. In turn being a black writer is an enobiling, exigency and black literature constitutes one of the supreme enrichment’s of black culture and black life. This has been and is [...]
