Day 1: Maintain a friendship with your childhood friend, despite the fact that you no longer live in the same state. Tell her you love her like family and that she is like a sister to you. Day 2: Like friends do, share your secrets and fears. At the moment, because you are both approaching […]
Month: April 2012
Apocalypse Now: Some Thoughts on Race at the End of the World
Last March, Crunktastic and I were in Atlanta for the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association conference when a man approached us and handed us pamphlets that declared the end of the world was fast approaching. In fact, the pamphlet urged us to get our affairs in order so we could be ready by May 21, 2011. […]
Making Movement Mistakes: What to do when you f@*k up
That moment: when some words have escaped your lips, and you realize they were wrong/insensitive/politically incorrect/hurtful. Or the moment when you have made a decision in a coalition that has broken the “do no harm” principle of coalition work. When your actions have undermined someone’s agenda. These moments can be big or small. These moments […]
Bodies Have Histories: Musing on Makode Linde and ‘that’ Cake
Image via The Graph.com Bodies have histories. When I first saw the images of the now infamous “Painful Cake” I had questions. Who created this? What went through their mind? Why is a Black female body being consumed both literally and symbolically by White women? What did the people in the room think? What was […]
Box Out: On Brittney Griner and Women Who Ball (Better Than You)
Guest Post by Summer McDonald Cross posted from Black Youth Project. I have beef with Brittney Griner. It’s not because the Baylor University women’s basketball team she leads beat Notre Dame in the women’s NCAA Division 1 championship a couple of weeks ago, and I like an underdog–even if it is Notre Dame. It’s not […]
Big Girls Need Love, Too: Dating While Fat (And Feminist)
I have recently come to the conclusion that I’m going to have to lose a significant amount of weight in order to have a viable chance at a love life. Let me be clear: this is not a fat-hating post. When I look in the mirror, for the most part, I like what I see. […]
Get Crunk! Two Years and Counting!
http://www.ustream.tv/embed/recorded/21662874 Video streaming by Ustream I’m in a reflective space after the Black Thought 2.0 Conference at Duke. I want to begin by thanking the conference organizers for inviting me to be on this panel. It felt good to be recognized as a junior scholar for my work and contribution to a growing network […]
If I Could Have This (Black-Girls-Run-The-Media-World) Moment 4 Life …
I have already begun my mental preparations for the latest insult to Black women’s romantic lives that Steve Harvey’s upcoming film Think Like A Man will most certainly be. I have had to start these preparations because I know that despite the sense I claim to have, I’m prolly gone go see the movie. Why? […]
Reconciling the Non-Profit “Post Industrial” Complex with Black Girls in Mind
Who is Anna Julia Cooper? Click here to learn more. Awesome FIRST wave Black Feminist. On Monday, I went to visit the Score Small business mentoring office to learn about the benefits and limits of a 501 (c) (3) versus an LLC or a conventional corp. #planning. #wingsup. I was REALLY surprised to learn that […]
Trayvon Martin and Prison Abolition
When I say I’m a prison abolitionist, people think that means I want to tear down the walls of the prison and free everyone today. But what it really means is that I want to work towards building a society that does not rely on prisons to address all of our injustices. As a prison […]