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Saturday, April 30, 2011
LGBT and HBCU Summit @SpelmanCollege
Friday, April 29, 2011
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Alexander McQueen for Givenchy, Spring/summer 1997. Living for...
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Alexander McQueen for Givenchy, Spring/summer 1997. Living for this right now.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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After seeing countless pictures from this video shoot…the actual video!!!
Dead Prez celebrates the natural hair girls. [via Clutch Mag]
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Erykah Badu in Studio
Erykah serenades a studio audience (including a jetlagged Jay Electronica and Supanova) with a rendition of, "Fall in Love (Your Funeral)," off New Amerykah Part Two.
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Monday, April 25, 2011
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An Igbo woman with a beautiful and permanent hairstyle, which is held in place by charcoal dust and palm oil. Hair like this was a sign of high status, just like clothing.
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6 Emory University Students ARRESTED for Protesting Sodexo!
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Beyonce, No
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Usually I leave
the music news to Dallas, who does a really good job of keeping me abreast of what the young folk are listening to. Last week's post on Kobe's faux pax and the subject matter of this week's entry are leading me to believe that I am fully committed to being unequivocally hated by my sister and my fellow homogays.
That's right. I listened to Beyonce's recently leaked single, "Girls (Who Run the World)." And you know what? It's craptastic. And by "craptastic" I don't mean it in that "Oh my god, what a vacuous, yet catchy new Beyonce song. I think I'll shake my ass" type way. I mean "craptastic" in that "Neither the world's most powerful wind machine nor all the of glitter in the world could save this dissonant shit" type way.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jjOH0xCzHw
Please excuse me while I watch my rainbow colored bridge burn.
Seriously, though, I can't get those 4 minutes of my life back. The entire experience compelled the following thoughts:
- Oh, Beyonce. Even J-Lo wouldn't sing this. Not even if she could, you know, sing.
- If the soundtracks to "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Drumline" got together and had (really, really awkward) sex and we were within earshot, this is what we would hear. That's a really long-winded way of describing this as a pop music mess or whatever you call it.
- Is Alicia not letting you play with Swizz anymore?
- If the above is not the case, what are you doing hanging out with Diplo and Switch? Don't screw too much with your sound. You saw what happened when Janet stopped messing with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, didn't you? (Can't just blame #nipplegate) Think about it.
- Lil Jon? Are you serious? I know you're probably not that good at math, but I think you forgot to add a decade. 2001 wants its favorite rapper back. I thought they had buried Lil Jon under some crunk rock and here you come resurrecting him. 2011 Lil Jon isn't even a poor man's version of Lil Jon. He's not even on the top ten list of "Rappers Who Go by 'Lil'" anymore. Was Wayne busy? Is T.I. in jail (again)? What about Drake? Or your husband?
- If you're going to put Lil Jon on a track, you might as well call Ja Rule.
- I generally ignore your Jekyll and Hyde pseudo-feminist but soooo not act, but this is beyond pathetic. If this is your new independent women anthem, I'd rather you tell women to put a ring on it. (Because it's still the jam. Oh-oh-oh!)
- I cannot two-step to this shit!
- If I may echo the homie, Moya B., Sasha, this is so not fierce.
- Thank you for ruining my summer. I can't believe I ever quasi-jokingly defended you.
A swing and a miss!
Enjoy your week, folks.
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Heat, Light, and Rebirth: On Resurrection
"Learn to accept love fully and to express love completely. Do nothing while doing everything. Self-care is paramount in self-empowerment. Remember who you are. Remember who you were. Remember what you must do. Do it!"
-a scroll from Black feminist same gender loving feminist spiritual leader and activist, Ifalade Ta'Shia Asanti
This Sunday after an epically bright Saturday full of cars overheating, corner preaching, gas station parking lots, auto part stores and street mechanics who would probably be surgeons in a different ecological manifestation...Julia spent Sunday getting resurrected with the sisters, aunties, mothers, gender queer uncles and brothers of the Shades Retreat in Pine Mountain Georgia. As a hymn that I have recently appropriated for the spiritual practice of black feminist self/collective/multiversal transformation says, "I Know I've Been Changed." So I want to testify, to the heat, the light and the tangible power of sacred space created by our love for ourselves and each other.
The recognition and faith in each others faces is the space that we would go through hell to get to . Pay for in countless paypal installments whenever we can, keep like a light in the center of our foreheads to remind us where we are going on hard days. We are the heaven we know about.
I want to testify that the presence of black feminist transformers of different ages and approaches is a sacred invitation to the revelation of the universe, a call for love to show up and show OUT!
With huge congratulations to Kat Williams and the Shades Retreat organizing crew....some quirky black dreamers if ever there were any, I want to give thanks for US. For the community that saves my life everyday. For the true context for eternal life. For our love.
In the year since the first annual Shades Retreat, Julia and I have visited and interviewed several of the amazing women that we met for the first time in an unassuming cabin in a not at all famous state park in Georgia we have been to their homes and met their communities. We have been able to act on and witness our belief that family is made out of the choice to take risks for each other, to believe in each other more than we believe what we have been taught is practical. We have become unstoppable, made it across the country and come back.
I know I've been changed. Because my soul gets renewed when you speak my name.
This year I have asked for help more times than in the rest of my lifetime added up. I have become a person who dances on purpose, and daily, and in public and without shame. I have become a person who prostrates on the floor greeting elders. I have become a chosen daughter and granddaughter over and over again. I have become a person who is emotionally available. I have become a person who actually takes days off (UNIMAGINABLE!), who can be still and present. I am now a person who is less and less afraid of being known as who I am. I have begun to expect you to love me anyway. Any way. I have begun to walk the unconditional.
I am grateful for the holy space that we create when we are together. And I am so humbled and honored to live in the sacred, divinely possible, miraculous space of your heart and your mind, and your recognition and your reflection. Loving you has invited me to love myself better than I ever woulda known to. I accept your love fully. I commit to expressing my love completely.
Oh what a joy. To wake up and be reborn. With you.
Love always and all days,
QBG Lex
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And for sacred space IN PERSON save the dates for some amazing and mostly FREE chances to be together
May:
Towards an Intellectual History of Black Women: An International Conference
April 28-30th at Columbia University in New York City (Lex is speaking about blood, water, land and love between black women in the US, Haiti and South Africa on Friday morning at 11am!)
Register for free here: http://www.iraas.org/node/203
Everyday Brilliance: Resilience Practices from Black LGBTQ Elders
May 15th, 2pm Stone House 6602 Nicks Rd Mebane, North Carolina
email mobilehomecoming@gmail.com for more info
(http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/may-15-everyday-brilliance-resilience-practices-from-black-lesbian-elders/)
Rainbow Reclamations: Blue-"Once I Was Pregnant" (a discussion ritual for women of color and genderqueer people of color based on Ntozake Shange's choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf")
May 22 in Durham, NC place to be announced
for more info email brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com and see http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/lavender-rainbow-reclamations-2-love-between-us-beyond-competition-and-sacrcity/
THE 6th Annual Gemini Jam: Friday May 27th in Atlanta, GA (memorial day weekend) Celebrate with some of your favorite Queerky Black Geminis AND listen to our beloved QBG hip hip duo The Lost Bois!!!!!! We are so excited! Save the date and be in the place!
Place to be confirmed soon, to get more info or to put your name on the reminder list email quirkyblackgirls@gmail.com
June
Indigo Days: A Gathering for Black Warrior Healers (June 9-15 in Durham, NC) a free grassroots gathering, housing, childcare and food provided! For more details see: www.indigodays.wordpress.com
Lucille Clifton ShapeShifter Revival Summer (Every Thursday in June at 6pm at 204 Rigsbee St. in Durham, NC) F0r 5 Thursdays in Lucille Clifton’s birth month of June we will gather as survivors of child sexual and physical abuse and sexual violence and parents and caretakers committed to ending cycles of abuse in our families and communities to do writing activities based on Lucille Clifton’s poetry and the ShapeShifter Survivor Rebirth Broadcast video series.
For more info see: http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/announcing-lucille-clifton-shapeshifter-survival-school-summer-session-2012/
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The Allied Media Conference June 23-26th at Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan! Quirky Black Convergence. Enjoy the Women of Color Skillshare, the Mobilehomecoming Elders Track and SO much more!!!! For more info and to register (see alliedmedia.org)
August
Educators save the date for the Juneteenth Freedom Academy Summer Intensive: Rituals for Classroom Presence. This is a week-long gathering especially for transformative educators. August 15-19th in Durham, NC!!!!!! email brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com for more info!!!!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
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Help the Shawty Got Skillz Skillsharers Get to the AMC!
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Hello Interwebs!
It's about that time again for the best conference ever! Yes The Allied Media Conference will be happening June 23-26 in Detroit and we want to be there!
Who are we?
We are the Skillsharers of the 3rd Annual INCITE! Shawty Got Skillz workshop! We are women, trans* and genderqueer people of color making media that directly mingles our personal lives with the political issues we care about. We believe, as Audre Lorde did, that "it is better to speak, knowing we were never meant to survive." We are all pushing the boundaries of what media is capable of and sharing the lessons of that experience with each other, and would love for you to help us get to Detroit this June to do just that!
Skillsharers include but aren't limited to:
who will be presenting topics that range from: Nihilism for Negroes, What Up Doe! Detroit Hustle & Resistance, Sex Worker Saftey, How to Tumbl & Tweet for Social Justice, and so much more!
YOU can help us get there by:
- Reposting! - Tell folks that we are trying to get to the AMC! Tweet, Tumbl, Facebook, Myspace (I mean, there are still some folks on there) telling folks about what skills we are sharing and ask them to support us getting to the conference! Should you feel so inclined to blog or tumbl about it we can put your post on our site!
- Pre-Buying our 'Zine! - We know a lot of folks aren't going to make it to the AMC and we also know that what we share there is going to be amazing! We will document all the fabulousness of the skills shared with a zine, dropbox folder, and cd that encompasses digital versions of the skills we shared all housed online in a dropbox or via a CD or zine we could mail to you. For just $7 (the price of a fancy cup of coffee) you can live or relive the dream that was this years Skillshare!
We need to raise $6 G's to get all 15 of us to the AMC (a low estimate)! YOU can donate Here! We so appreciate what ever you can give! A reblog and a tweet make us so happy!!!
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xoxo,
Shawty Got Skillz Skillshare Crew
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dopegirlfresh:peecharrific:Never Forget You (live at SIRIUS...
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Never Forget You (live at SIRIUS XM) ~ Noisettes
I LIVE! shingai is everything.
Songwriters: Astasio, George; Morrison, James Ross; Pebworth, Jason Andrew; Shoniwa, Shingai Elizabet; Smith, Daniel John Montag;
Watcha drinking?
Rum or whiskey?
Now won'tcha have a
Double with me?
I'm sorry I'm a little late
I got your message by the way
I'm calling in sick today
So let's go out for old time's sake
I'll never forget you
They said we'd never make it
My sweet joy
Always remember me
We were mysterious
And you were always wearing black
I was so serious
You know my boyfriend's mother
Nearly had a heart attack
I'm sorry I'm a little late
You know the stripes on a tiger
Are hard to change
I know this world feels
Like an empty stage
I wouldn't change a thing
So glad you're back again
I'll never forget you
They said we'd never make it
My sweet joy
Always remember me
I'll never forget you
At times we couldn't shake it
You're my joy
Always remember me
We just got swallowed up
You know I didn't forget you
We just got swallowed up
Well, we just got swallowed up
But you love that I didn't forget you
We just got swallowed up
By the whole damn world
Watcha thinking?
Did you miss me?
I borrowed your silver boots
Now if you'd just let me
Give them back to you
I'll never forget you
They said we'd never make it
My sweet joy
Always remember me
I'll never forget you
Although at times we couldn't shake it
You're my joy
Always remember me
Don't you know that you're my joy
Always remember me
Don't you know that you're my joy
Always remember me
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Friday, April 22, 2011
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May 15: Everyday Brilliance: Resilience Practices from Black Lesbian Elders
brought to you by the MobileHomecoming Project (mobilehomecoming.org)
amplifying generations of black feminist LGBTQ brilliance!
2pm-6pm Sunday, May 15 2011
Stone House
6602 Nicks Rd.
Mebane, NC
Join us for a day of immersive wisdom where black lesbian elders in North Carolina share the practices that have kept them awake and amazing for decades in an interactive, intergenerational, skillshare and dialogue!!!
Invited featured speakers include:
Dr. Anjail Ahmad
Mandy Carter
Ed Swan
C. C. Wiggins
Janice Vaughn
Carolyn Grey
Harriet Alston
Bring a dish to share and be prepared to be inspired everyday from now on!
email mobilehomecoming@gmail.com for more info!
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