February 2012
13 posts
ancestryinprogress:
Sweet Thing, Rufus...
Why Roland Martin’s Homophobic Tweets Shouldn’t Be... →
Sometimes, I just get tired.
ethiopienne:
Tired of always being the one who has to point out how problematic certain things are to people who don’t see race the way I’m forced to, tired of being that girl, tired of being Professor Negro, tired of explaining why I don’t like X show or Y movie or Z author, tired of speaking up when it’d be easier to just stay quiet, tired of staying quiet when I want so badly to speak up.
Harriet Tumbles: Black Feminist Contradictions: We... →
harriettumbles:
There will always be debate about what defines a feminist. While conservative women like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann attempt to misappropriate the term and negate its progressive origins, Black women struggle to embrace it and see our place within the movement.
Feminism (or Womanisn if…
Yes! I was having a similar conversation last night with a friend and colleague...
"Love is an action, never simply a feeling."- bell...
January 2012
23 posts
headphones after midnight: Reverse Racism is a... →
ethiopienne:
brazenbitch:
Who believe that sporadic, interpersonal acts of hostility from people of color is equivalent or relevant to the struggle of people of color from oppression.
Even if a person of color is hateful against white people, it has nothing to do with the thought of…
Between Women →
studslayer:
Between Women is a new FRESH look into the lives of BLACK LESBIANS! These webisodes are The L Word dipped in chocolate! This new series is made by and for lesbians of color and it gives you a peak into the lives of urban black lesbians living and loving in Atlanta, GA. It deals with real issues such as domestic violence, cheating, break ups, gay marriage, co-parenting, and getting...
“I’m not writing to be included in the canon. I’m writing to save something...”
– Nikky Finney (via dearlittleblackgirls)
Pariah was awesome. That is all.
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via arewomenhuman)
Exactly.
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“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
– Lemony Snicket (via penseesduchoeur)
always reblog
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“Nobody in history has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense...”
– Assata Shakur (via thegoddamazon)
ALWAYS REBLOG.
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*not even Martin Luther King Jr.* if you really think the progress of the Civil Rights Movement was achieved solely by the moral strength of their argument, you were miseducated. you really were.
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Every degree of...
“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not...”
– Audre Lorde (via loveyourchaos)
It Did Not Start With Stonewall: Black Lesbian... →
Yes!
“Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her...”
– Audre Lorde (via wearethedescendantsofstars)
“We (Black lesbian feminists) have been around a long time. There haven’t been...”
– Audre Lorde (interview with Karla Hammond)
December 2011
21 posts
Fides Processus: Love Is Friendship Set On Fire →
womyneosoul:
A poem by by Laura Hendricks “Love is friendship caught fire; it is quiet, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection, and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present, hopes for the future,…
Partying on New Year's Eve?
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“I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make...”
– James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk. (via thenegrosophisticate)
we do, we do, we do <3
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I LOVE this book!
I want to see Pariah
harrietsdaughter:
and it will never come to this itty bitty corner of the red state in which I live.
Harumph.
It won’t come here either. I think I’m going to make a special trip to see it in Chicago or somewhere.
peopleofcolor:
A Gleeful Eulogy for #Slutwalk
Any doubt Slutwalk’s ‘fun feminism’ was the stunning political trainwreck of 2011?
Awesome article! I’ll be deconstructing the Slutwalks with my students in my WOST class this spring. :)
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New Directors Flesh Out Black America, All of It →
A little bothered by the author likening Precious to Pariah; claiming a Black lesbian identity is not the same thing as being sexually abused. I’ll write more about that later.
home is not where you live: for each of you -... →
francescaldv:
Be who you are and will be
learn to cherish
that boisterous Black Angel that drives you
up one day and down another
protecting the ploace where your power rises
running like hot blood
from the same sourse
as you pain.
When you are hungry
learn to eat
whatever sustains you
…
Didn’t You Forget Me? A Queer Black Feminist’s... →
Loving her take on this and it’s about time someone said it in print.
“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and...”
– Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (via tanitaf)
revolutionary minded: Hey tumblr buds! →
theafrosistuh:
So the National Council for Black Studies is in March. The 7th - 10th actually. And it will be in Atlanta.
All I’m saying is, it’s going to be wonderful. Brothas, if you like to listen to powerfully inspiring men and women speak, sistuhs with natural hair, and beautiful…
Yes, we should! I’ll be there with a couple of my favorite academic peeps.
“And certainly there are very real differences between us, of race, sex, age,...”
– Audre Lorde, “Difference and Survival: An Address at Hunter College” Undated address printed for the first time from the Audre Lorde Paper at Spelman College, in I am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
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Yes!
“My fellow queers and assorted allies: we have got to stop using arguments like...”
– Social Justice League - Fauxgress Watch: Born This Way (via subconciousevolution)
Perfect.
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This is the TRUTH. “Born This Way” is not powerful. It’s something to hide behind.
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I respectfully disagree. Being queer, or lesbian in my case, is not a...