January 2011
36 posts
The Narrative of Beautiful
xicanagrrrl:
michellejigga:
You know that you are poetry, right?
You know that you are
Spontaneous combustion
Metaphysics
The objective of language
The stories hidden in your DNA.
You know that you are miracle, right?
You know that you are
Liberation
A mind without chains
The compassion after a disaster
An open heart.
i need to write this all over an entire wall.
Don't drink and drive - and don't ride with...
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Love Is, Love Ain't
So, as much as I love Tumblr, I’ve realized that not many people on here actually read what I write. It’s cool, this site is so visual and beautiful that words don’t often express what we are thinking and feeling adequately. And just the other day someone mentioned that if you want to write, head over to Wordpress. So I have.
One of my closest friends and I have decided to blog...
December 2010
51 posts
30-Day Challenge 3
Favorite television show? I love love love Law and Order. I don’t watch a lot of television, mainly documentaries and “nerd tv” but I really love Law and Order (the original) and Criminal Intent. SVU tends to get on my nerves. Absolutely no tolerance at all for “reality” television.
Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat up,...
30-Day Challenge 2
Tattoos? Just one. My nickname with little rainbow colored drops on it above my left breast. It’s kinda of peekaboo, which I like. You can only see it if I’m wearing a tank, camisole or v-necked shirt. The woman I was seeing at the time got it for me as I couldn’t imagine paying someone to stick little needles in my breast area! I have to admit that although I’ll probably...
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30-Day Challenge 1
My middle name? Andrea. My aunt named me Stephen Andrew thinking I would be a boy but it turned into Stephanie Andrea when I was born. As a kid, I liked Andrea better than Stephanie but I could never get anyone to call me Andy or Andrea for very long. Sooo, when I had my daughter. Guess what I named her? :0)
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with...”
– Maya Angelou (via quotewhore)
Intellect is the new aphrodisiac
pistols-and-koolaid:
karbarkalediscope:
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Real real real.
“In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished...”
– Audre Lorde
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
(via healingsakina)
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Exotic Taboo [Love Anonymously] →
Interesting blog from Racialicious; feel free to leave comments!
So happy to be home with my family right now.
The DREAM Act and the Failure of White Gay/Lesbian... →
elektricity:
ryotsu:
The key structural reason why neither branch of the LGBT movements has operationalized its stated intersectional politics, is quite simple: the default definition for what “Gay” means has been set by, and remains dominated by, the ideas and experiences of those in our communities who are white and this really has not changed in more than fifty years. Issues, identities,...
femmefluff asked: Yep! I've heard of Ann Allen Shockley, I was extra surprised when I found out she ID's as heterosexual. That blew me because she was one of the first black women to to write a novel about lesbians. Have you read Arobateau's "The Bars Across Heaven"? THAT is a dated book (late 60's early 70s) but I LOVE it!
femmefluff asked: No I haven't read Don't Explain. Thanks! Any other authors or books?
femmefluff asked: I really like your blog! I wanted to know if you had any recommendations for black lesbian fiction (books, short stories, etc.)? I've read all of Audre Lorde and lots of Red Jordan Arobateau so far.
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“We believe that the most profound and potentially the most radical politics come...”
– A black Feminist Statement
The Combaheee River Collective
1978
(via thetruthlieswithinyou)
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Move in Darkness-Pat Parker
Move in darkness
know the touch of a woman
a wall of normalcy
wraps your body-
strangles brightens
wrinkled ugliness
sin
fear
admission
Two days later
you shudder
& take 2 aspirins
oceanroses asked: hello! I'm not sure if i've formally introduced myself yet... i'm mar and i love your blog <3 i'm actually currently reading sister outsider for the first time, "uses of the erotic" pretty much changed my life <3
thank you for your voice!!!
thank you for your voice!!!
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My Lady Ain't No Lady-Pat Parker
my lady ain’t no lady
she doesn’t flow into a room—
she enters and her presence is felt.
she doesn’t sit small—
she takes all her space.
she doesn’t partake of meals—
she eats—replenishes herself.
my lady ain’t no lady—
she has been known
to speak in loud voice
to pick her nose,
stumble on a sidewalk,
swear at her cats,
...
That Chick Hustles: An Open Letter →
karliehustle:
To: Jay Electronica, Kanye West, Chris Rock and Others From: Your Female Audience Date: 12/10/2010 RE: A Requested Apology
Gentlemen, As female fans of your work, we would first like to thank you for creating. We respect your right to artistic freedom in whatever form you choose to express it….
Thanks; I know, I posted that hours later. Turns...
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/26095790/detail.html
I know, it’s sad, but I just wanted folks to know that the child was safe. We’ve got to be more careful about just hitting that little reblog button. It only takes a few more seconds to do a quick search to see if the story has been verified.
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Reblogging-Updated information
Just a quick note:
I’m all for reblogging public service type information, as in the case of the missing girl in Indianapolis. I’m right down the road from there, and was about to reblog it when something told me to do a quick search on the story. The girl was found safe on Friday night. The link is below.
http://lostnmissing.posterous.com/located-safe-alexis-pruitt-15-in
Just do...
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I'm So Tired-Pat Parker
I’m so tired
of hearing about
capitalist
sexist,
racist,
fascist
chauvinist,
feminist.
I am tired
of hearing about
confrontating
demonstrating
trashing,
smashing,
surviving,
jiving.
I’m beginning to
wonder if
the tactics
of this revolution
is to
talk the enemy to death.
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BLE- Black Lesbian Entertainment, Pt. 1
I’ve been thinking about this for a minute, and I still haven’t worked it all out. But here are a few preliminary thoughts. This may turn into an all out rant, so forgive me in advance. One of the lesbian groups I follow on Twitter tweeted something like “if you’re not a loving it, you’re a hater,” or something similar. My immediate response was to reply with...
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On Personal Style in Academic Writing-Patricia...
lowendtheory:
Q. asks whether I am not afraid that my personal style is “too much” for an academic audience; he says that it is inevitable that my words will be read as “all about me” and speculates that the writing necessarily involves the reader’s passing judgment on me. Rather than risking another memo written in the first person, I take Q. to lunch and we talk.
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Brother-Pat Parker
Brother
I don’t want to hear
about
how my real enemy
is the system.
i’m no genius,
but i do know
that system
you hit me with
is called
a fist.
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Women
movementbaby:
They were women then My mama’s generation Husky of voice-Stout of Step With fist as well as Hands How they battered down Doors And ironed Starched white Shirts How they led Armies Headragged Generals Across mined Fields Booby-trapped Kitchens To discover books Desks A place for us How they knew what we Must know Without knowing a page Of it Themselves. Alice Walker
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Have you Ever Tried to Hide?-Pat Parker
Have you ever tried to hide?
In a group
of women
hide
yourself
slide between the floorboards
slide yourself away child
away from this room
& your sister
before she notices
your Black self &
her white mind
slide your eyes
down
away from the other Blacks
afraid-a meeting of eyes
& pain would travel between you-
change like milk to buttermilk
a silent rage.
SISTER!...
“The place to begin is silence, so you can hear your soul speak in (her) unique...”
– Chrystos on advice for new writers. (via theredtree)
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“Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the...”
– Audre Lorde
phxblkswag-deactivated20110204 asked: Hey. I Appreciate your energy and your post. Just wondering are you a student if so in what field?
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“Women of Color in america have grown up within a symphony of anger, at being...”
– Audre Lorde
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the gang's all QUEER: Speech given by Huey Newton,... →
thegang:
During the past few years strong movements have developed among women and among homosexuals seeking their liberation. There has been some uncertainty about how to relate to these movements.
Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various liberation…
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I am never so happy as when I am eagerly anticipating the arrival of a new book. Well, perhaps not as much as when I actually find the time to read it.