Sister Toldja is dead. Long live Jamilah Lemieux (hopefully).
Continue ReadingDirty Pop Culture, Feminist Fight, Life and Times of Sister Toldja
Sister Toldja is dead. Long live Jamilah Lemieux (hopefully).
Continue ReadingFeminist Fight, Life and Times of Sister Toldja
E-friend Drew-Shane recently posed a question to me about women being pressured to have kids. It’s funny, because as much as I have heard other girls my age and older complain about feeling pushed by friends and family to get their baby game up, I have to say that most of the pressure I feel [...]
Continue ReadingOne of the many damning charges leveled against Nafissatou Diallo is that she has falsified her account of being raped by Dominique Strauss Kahn for financial gain. Why do we assume that a victim who wants retribution from her assailant has to be lying? I was raped in July of 2007, two days before I was scheduled to move from DC [...]
Continue ReadingFeminist Fight, Mars/Venus, Race Matters
There is no universal code or standard for Black behavior; we think, walk, talk and exist in many different ways across the United States and the Diaspora-at-large. Yet we often hear people talking about sticking together, looking out for one another and embracing the concept of “Black love.” Why is this so important to us? [...]
Continue ReadingFeminist Fight, You Should Be Here
Do creepy guys know that they are creepy? Do they have any idea that their behavior (or perhaps simply their presence) makes women uncomfortable? How does the decent into McCreeperdom begin? One day, you’re a fairly normal dude who approaches women in a normal, largely respectful way and the next, you just become the guy [...]
Continue Reading…unless you know what you are talking about. *inspired by a great convo with a great group of women* Far too often, I’ve heard both men and women attempt to blame feminism for the perceived downfall of contemporary society, the breakdown of the African-American family, the harassment and rape of women and girls that existed long before [...]
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