We want to love our brothers, we think we love our brothers...but sometimes, we just don't know how to do it.
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We want to love our brothers, we think we love our brothers...but sometimes, we just don't know how to do it.
Continue ReadingFolks all across Negronia and beyond tuned into last night’s BET Awards in anticipation of the network’s second attempt at a Michael Jackson tribute. I didn’t watch live because, well, I ain’t got cable. I am convinced that having access to so much television would make me lazy. And also, I’m poor. In anticipation of [...]
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There is so much interesting cultural commentary that can be culled from Michael's life, his death and his legacy. However, I'm not the one who's gonna make those observations. At least not right now. My views on Michael are very much emotional. I'm too focused on my attachment to him as one of my first crushes and one of my favoritest people I ever did see to have an intellectual interest in him yet. I just wanna love him.
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Aaron McGruder takes on both Tyler Perry and the "pause"/"no homo" phenomenon in one fell swoop. Brilliant. Hilarious. And, most of all, courageous.
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Taking a break from the Feminism series for a spell. It’s much needed, I’d say. If you missed part one and part two, please take a second to check them out. Part three was linked at The Fresh Xpress and my Clutch feature for this week is “Why Feminism?”, a brief rundown of why I [...]
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I should have never told y'all I was gonna talk about feminism. I should have just discussed some real feminist stuff and had people feeling it and then hit y'all with "Oh that? That's feminism." Like if someone made you a lasagna with soy sausage and didn't tell you until you were done that it wasn't real meat. Just pushed the empty Boca package towards you at the end of the meal and winked. Just like that.
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