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“Which brings me to last night. I was at a function and a black man asked me what I wrote about. I said hip hop and feminism. He then put up the two fingers and said, “Are you an L?” and I looked at him, unphased, as I saw it as a teachable moment. Then I said, eye brows furrowed, “Hunh?” He joked “There is nothing wrong with that as long as I can watch.” I guess he THOUGHT he was going to humiliate me. All I could think was my ipod died two weeks ago, my relationship died three weeks ago and I took the GRE this morning, nothing really was going to f-ck with me. I let him speak, he stuttered and stammered and then he noticed that I was serious. I responded saying “It’s interesting that I say I am a feminist and you joke about me being a lesbian, I am currently writing a piece titled a A World Built on Black Pussy.” He raised his eyebrows this time. It was clear that I was serious. I added, “The rappers talk about it all the time, but if I do, I am being tacky.” We were then able to have a more civil conversation that wasn’t based his lesbian fantasies.”

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[Comment: I wrote this in ‘08 and I think I was @ the party for the Honey Mag digital relaunch. It is deep to read these words, as I just came across them looking for a post that I wrote on why it is HARD for some Black men who LIKE Nicki Minaj, to listen to her as an emcee. #Patriarchy stays busy, but #BlackFeminism is busier. Anyhoo, I shared it, b/c I think some of ya’ll would get a kick out of it.If you are in DC I am going to be doing a panel on Hip Hop, Sexuality and Gender on Monday @ UDC @ 6:30. Come thru. ~@Reninawrites]

ps. I didn’t finish that piece, it turned into another one titled “Black Women, Property Twice.

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“To me I think all schools should have gardens because you can use the plants, and plants give you oxygen. I like to go out in the garden because it calms me down. … If you just had a fight, you can just go in the garden, calm down, eat some strawberries, and you’ll feel safe because you’ll be around nature. And nature, it won’t hurt you.”

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George Carter, 15 y/o Black teen boy from New Orleans, murdered yesterday. Article via Grist by Brentin Mock: h/t @kalamu

He had me @ “if you just had a fight”. Baby I know, boy do I know.

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IsBeyonceaFeminist.com is an online museum-blog dedicated to exploring the work created by Black women visual artists created by Renina Jarmon -@Reninawrites

I think that people are more interested in consuming the lives and bodies of Black women, however there is something special that happens when we center the work of Black women visual artists.

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Michele Wallace (1980)

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Michele Wallace: "To Hell and Back: On the Road with Black Feminism in the 60s and 70s"

Here is a link to a personal essay by Michele Wallace:

http://www.blackculturalstudies.org/wallace/hellandback.html

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by Samantha Taylor I was taking a Black Feminism/Womanism class at Portland State University when I first read about bell hooks’s struggle with suicidal thoughts while she was at Stanford. I thought, “Wait, I’m not the only one? And people actually talk about this!?” At some point, I breathed an audible sigh of relief that my classmates misinterpreted as boredom; yes, they actually thought that a black, queer gurl in a Black Feminism class was bored. How simple people can be sometimes! What really happened was, in that moment, I felt as though a hand had reached out and plucked…

Hey y’all. So I wrote a thing. 

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15 Black Feminist Books Everyone Should Read

Solidarity may be for white women and black power for black men, but these books are for everybody.

By: Diamond Sharp @ The Root

Wow. Honored isn’t even the word. All I can say is thank you to everyone who has helped me to get to this point.

I feel like I just won a Black girl Oscar or something..:) ~@Reninawrites

Buy the book here. Interview Here. Photos Here. Blog here.

Newsletter here. I will never spam you.

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“…the particular cost of success for black women artists: Ntozake Shange reports that she’s still recovering from the firestorm touched off by her play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf”; Michele Wallace told White she “has yet to fully recover from the anger that was directed toward her” after she published “Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman.””

— Stacey D'Erasmo’s via the NY Times “Alice Walker: In Love and Trouble” (2004)

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Kristina Elise in Peter Langner Bridal for New York Bridal fashion week

IG Kristinaxelise Triplegoddesss.tumblr.com

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The sweetest thing

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Catwoman

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MelMikel 📸 Throwkon

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Will you grow older with me?

lgbtincomics’ pride month challenge

week two- characters of color bingo love by tee franklin and jenn st. onge

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Exoskeleton 

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I just starting bawling my eyes out

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