Life. Feminism. Pop Culture.
^^^ #NomNomNominaction For Josephine & For T.dot. Oooh, Uh Ohhh Dropped your knot, scooped it up put in my sock... ~e. badu I turned around and I realized that I am dating a giver. Someone who never lets my IPA get too low,? who makes … [Continue reading]
Gimmie a Break on You Tube, for a refresher on Black maids I read Drylongso by John Gwaltney while working on The Crack Project. Drylongso is an ethnography of? Black people in North Eastern cities in the late seventies. Ironically, The Graduate … [Continue reading]
Photo Courtesy of Thomas Hawk @ Now Public (Young African American man, hand cuffed in police car, January 2009 after Oscar Grant Murder Protest in Oakland, I wish I knew his name.) Amadou. Sean. Lovell. Oscar. Aiyana. Oftentimes, when it comes … [Continue reading]
Me + Baldwin @ a beach in Long Island, Summer '08. I Love Baldwin and it seems that every summer I return to his collection of essays published by the Library of America. What is the job of Black writers? The work? Baldwin addresses this in … [Continue reading]
Carry Out the Four Modernisations of the Fatherland (2007) by Kehinde Wiley I have been thinking a lot Love + Domination + Black men. Two weeks ago, I had a fever and couldn't sleep so I was up dumb early, and I decided to re-read bell … [Continue reading]