*Last week, we cross-posted a piece entitled ‘We Are Not Your Weapons. . .We Are Women’ a harrowing testimony of surviving rape from an American activist currently working in Haiti. While we stand in solidarity with the author, Amanda Kijera, she made some troubling assertions about the credibility of rape claims and the need to […]
Tag: Black Women
Hearts led Baby it’s your deal…
Apparently people across the country are outraged by Erykah Badu’s public disrobing. Perhaps this was a matter of timing. Had Ms. Badu waited until this month, April, which is Confederacy History Month in southern states like Texas, it might not have been such a big deal–the War of Northern Aggression being all about a state’s […]
ACT like you got some sense, and THINK for yourself!
I wish Steve Harvey would go sit down somewhere and smoke a pipe, because all he’s doing is blowing hot air. And Black women are lining up in droves for a turn on the hot air balloon. Just two nights ago a young undergraduate student asked in a panel on racial stereotypes, “Why can’t Black […]
“You are pretty for a dark-skinned girl”
I have heard this statement many times in my life from well-meaning black women, surprised black boys and peers, family members and perfect strangers who usually make the statement in response or reply to not having seen me in a while or in genuine wonder and fascination. The words come as somewhat of a shock […]
Trying to Make a Dollar Out of Fifteen Cents: Women, the Wealth Gap, and Why Race Still Matters
Re-posted from Race-Talk In a recent Facebook post, one of my friends was incredulous that more than half of all single mothers live below the poverty line. He asked, “What can we do to solve this problem?” His question reminded me of the report released earlier this month by the Insight Center for Community and […]
For Educated Black Girls Who’re Just Tryin to Maintain when Degrees Ain’t Enuf
A Black woman academic steps into a bar. . . Okay, okay. It’s not a funny joke. So here’s what happened. I decided to venture out to a bar for St. Patty’s Day in my small predominantly white college town. The beats, which I could hear as soon as stepped out of my car, immediately […]
They aren’t talking about me…
As a queer woman in love, sometimes it’s hard to relate to what my straight sisters are going through. What used to make me want to hold rap stars accountable is now likely to pass my ears without so much as a raised eyebrow of concern from me. This is deeply disturbing and I don’t […]
Mo’Nique at the Oscars: Politics vs. Performance
Happy International Women’s Day! Now let’s get to it . . . Mo’Nique might have said last night that it was about “the performance and not the politics” but when she invoked the legacy of Hattie McDaniel, the first African American woman to win an Oscar, she proved that it is always about the politics. […]