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,…
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Partying on New Year's Eve?
Don’t drink and drive-and don’t ride with anybody who does. Tipsy Tow offered by AAA: you don’t have to be a AAA member, from 6pm-6am on New Years Eve/day, they will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE. Save this number… 1-800-222-4357. Please reblog this if you don’t mind.
Dec 28th
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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 (via muxersita) I LOVE this book! 
Dec 28th
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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.  
Dec 27th
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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. :)
Dec 25th
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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. 
Dec 23rd
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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 …
Dec 20th
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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. 
Dec 16th
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“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and...”
– Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (via tanitaf)
Dec 16th
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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.
Dec 16th
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Dec 13th
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“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 (via tgstonebutch) Yes!
Dec 11th
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“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. (via agradschoolbreakup) This is the TRUTH. “Born This Way” is not powerful. It’s something to hide behind. (via queerlyfemmetastic) I respectfully disagree. Being queer, or lesbian in my case, is not a...
Dec 11th
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Awkward Black Girl’s No-pology to Transgender Fans... →
Let me say this upfront, I’m not a huge fan of this show, it’s just not my thing. However, I have watched the evolution of it, including the calls for support earlier this year when ABG’s creators needed funds to finish episode eight, I think.  Regardless, I KNOW that their LGB and especiallly T, fans stepped up to the plate and supported this show and its creators. So I am...
Dec 10th
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Women, Sex and Death — From Vampires to... →
Dec 10th
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High mutha-fuckin' Pass. That is all.
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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“Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her...”
– Audre Lorde (via christianaaa)
Dec 7th
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Sometimes the only thing to do is to do nothing at...
Dec 2nd
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“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I...”
– Toni Morrison (via @SonofBaldwin on Twitter). As usual, her words are fierce and truer than true. (via tinyfist) Yes!
Dec 1st
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