January 2012
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Kinda Sorta Response to Ntozake Shange
I self-identify as a feminist & a womanist. I understand the need to be united under one identity. I also understand the need to target a uniquely equipped group of folk who can analyze matrices of identities & social locations such as race, ethnicity, nationalist, class, sex assignment, gender and sexual orientation. I really don’t think we need to choose between labels. In the...
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Ntozake Shange & Michaela angela Davis on Feminism, Tyler Perry & More. 2010
Noted urban culture critic Michaela angela Davis and legendary poet and author Ntozake Shange recently sat down for a discussion of Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuff, it’s adaptation into the film For Colored Girls, black feminism and plenty more recently at The...
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December 2011
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“On a good night, I may work on up to seven poems, each in a different stage...”
– Rita Dove on the Best American Poetry Blog
http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2011/12/until-the-fulcrum-tips-a-conversation-with-rita-dove-and-jericho-brown.html
(via blackfeminismlives)
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WatchLes Nubians Dancing (by Brandi Pettijohn)
November 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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“For introverts like myself, it takes energy to engage with other people. Doing...”
– I’m not shy so it’s hard to explain to my friends that I’m an introvert. Social anything drains me. I charge from solitude.
4 Ways Technology Can Enable Your Inner Introvert - Philip Bump - Technology - The Atlantic
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“our relationship to our blackness is very …..
I wanna say an intercontinental...”
– Read the rest at Blackamazon is too much:
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WatchNovie singing “Funk 3(I Want To Get Next To You)”
Follow the link to BoldasLove.Us to learn more about the artist and the choreography from @robfields.
Reading Retreats
The ideal reading retreat to my mind would involve four or five friends renting a big country house for a long weekend (at least three full days). They ought to be people who know each other well enough that they won’t be tempted to spend all their time either getting acquainted or catching up. Everyone agrees that the rooms with the comfiest chairs are strict quiet zones. Everyone takes...
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“The idea that we don’t research, read and study is wrong. The idea that we...”
– - Author Sapphire
Her new novel The Kid, sequel to Push is already out.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-07-04-sapphire-the-kid_n.htm
June 2011
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Of Another Fashion: This photograph titled “Picnic... →
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This photograph titled “Picnic group, Highland Beach, Md / 1931” shows 21 girls from the local YWCA sitting in and on what has been identified as a 1929 Packard Model 633 8-cylinder Rumble Seat Roadster. I assume that the man wearing the dress shirt and tie in the background is the adult…
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Aggregate: A Blues Poem
muselady11:
He’s just hopped off the train In Houston, twisting an ankle on the way. Left dried up dirt and family In Georgia to plant a new life In the city.
Sounds like steam escaping, But it’s just cars, rail cars, Filling up with aggregate— Pebbles pouring in shifts To fill a city with concrete and steel.
He can hear the land screaming, Until the pebbles bury it In sterile silence While...
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“Ain’t nobody comin’ to see you, Otis! You wish you could work it the way I do,...”
– The Temptations (1998) (via feedmeastraycal)
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The African American Dream →
Baraka, who once famously declared “it’s nation time,” argues that the urgency is gone because younger people and middle-class African Americans have replaced the idea of community with the ideal of the American Dream. “There are a whole lot of people in the younger generation that think things have always been like this —that it’s about them, personally, moving on up, like the show used to say,...
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May 2011
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“The reality is that effective self governance requires a free media, but...”
– I’m sad to see it go from daily to weekly. Read a post from a laid-off employee about class. There’s a Walter Mosley video there to entice you.
Goodbye For Now from GRITtv | The Nation
via @guerillamamamedicine
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