The Beautiful Struggler | Me, Myself An Eye

Enemies of the Great- The Denzel Principle, Part 1

The Latest

W.E. Heartbreak

Enemies of the Great- The Denzel Principle, Part 1

Confronting Black Male Privilege

Feminist Fight, Preserve The Pretty, Race Matters

Happy Black Girl Day, March 2010 Edition

0 Comments 10 March 2010

This month, I realized I made a pretty grievous error in scheduling HBD on National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day. But then it hit me: what a great opportunity to spotlight some Happy Black Girls who are doing some TREMENDOUS work for the cause of KEEPING Black Girls Happy!

Dirty Pop Culture

I’m Not Here Today

0 Comments 09 March 2010

…but I’m here. Blind I. Check us out! And if you are among the lucky ones attending SXSW this year (I didn’t save up enough Kool-Aid Points to go), check out the Quality showcase. Free. Good stuff. Don’t forget, tommorrow is HAPPY BLACK GIRL DAY 2! All happy EVERYTHING!

Dirty Pop Culture, Race Matters

Bittersweet

6 Comments 08 March 2010

The issues I take with the premise of The Blind Side are similar to the ones I took with the reaction to Precious outside of the Black community. Once again, we see where stories of Black pain and pathology are celebrated by Whites in a way that reminds us that tragedy=Black reality in the eyes of many others.

Life and Times of Sister Toldja, Pure Comedy

Five For Friday: Warm It Up

10 Comments 05 March 2010

Yay! It’s Friday. And FINALLY, we are straight East Coastin’ with no snow. I hate snow. I hate it a lot. Snow probably killed me in a past lifetime. Though we seem to be having a better couple of days, I can’t get past how bad it’s been these past few weeks. This may be [...]

Feminist Fight, Race Matters, You Should Be Here

Happy Black Girl Day 2: Happier and Blacker

23 Comments 03 March 2010

After a pause in the month of February, I am happy to announce that NEXT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010 will be the second Universal Happy Black Girl Day. National is not big enough. International is for chumps. We are interplanetary, baby. If Pluto was still a planet, they would be in on it too...

Life and Times of Sister Toldja, Mars/Venus, Race Matters

Re-Up: I Won’t and You Can’t Make Me

50 Comments 25 February 2010

NOTE: This post was originally published on 12.30.2009. It seemed appropriate today in the wake of todays’s Washington Post article suggesting Black women “explore their options”. Explore your moms, Washington Post. Single Black Tragic Woman Theatre is in effect mode. The things we used to discuss amongst ourselves in Essence, in beauty shop and on ladies nights [...]

Older Entries »