You need to watch this. Some of the videos are chilling, others are funny. (And maybe chillingly funny?) You can even create your own online art gallery experience and play a few of them at the same time to find out what the viral expressions of female identity look and sound like in unison. (thank…
Category: black women
Teaching White Boys to Dance and Other Solutions to the Black Marriage Crisis (repost)
This was, hands down, one of the most brilliant, spot-on, and engaging pieces I’ve seen on a topic that happens to be the flavor of the moment. (Quickly being surpassed by the Sh*t _______ Say explosion) Read on and check out the Crunk Feminist Collective’s site. This morning, while reading Kate Weigand’s 2001 book Red…
On John Mayer (And Apologies That Don’t Really Offer Clarity)
Upon a few hours of trying to process reports of offensive remarks that popular musician John Mayer made in the current issue of Playboy magazine, I tried coming up with a few clever Facebook status-updates, my favorite being that Mayer sorely needed a Racism and Sexism course. (I didn’t publish that, but I still think…
Good Hair: About Us but Not For Us
Documentary films are often powerful in doing what typical mainstream media outfits can’t: accidentally reveal truths. There’s a moment in comedian Chris Rock’s Good Hair when a group of young black women discuss the realities of having straightened hair in order to secure work. When her friends express their concern for her, the lone woman…
black girls face: r. kelly (preview)
about one year ago, i completed the film i had always wanted to see but got tired of waiting for someone else to make. here’s some snippets of it: i purposely included the black female subjects of this documentary trying to figure things out and make meaning while they spoke. that’s real to me. in…
the female experience of racism
I was intrigued when I heard another Black woman use the phrase that is the headline of this article. It sounded different from sexism. And it could just be all words at this point, but whenever I see the larger-than-life ads for Eddie Murphy’s new movie “Norbit,” the phrase rises to the surface again. The…
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