Ms. Black Feminist Goes to the Country Club
I have a bad left knee. I moved earlier this week, and I didn’t wantmy knee to look like a cauliflower, so I decided to use a gym pass thatI had been saving for a rainy day. I figured that a little...
View ArticleBlack Women’s Complicity in Being Dominated
RHOA fight b/w Kim and Nene. @tkoed and ‘Toya. See, I wrote it! Fan on Facebook. #new Last day to vote for my #SXSW presentation here. After writing several posts in June about Black men, Love, and...
View ArticleProenza Schouler = #Assitchstatus
“We can act like wild animals?….” “One day we got so drunk, I thought I heard God speaking to me…” A peoples ability to control how and when they are represented is an indicator of the kind of power...
View ArticleTip Your Servers, It is How We Survive.
#Dedicated to Jerm the Perm and to everyone else on that shift work for tips. For the last two summers I have worked as a waitress at some point. #AutonomyisExpensive. Depending on the state in which...
View ArticleRace, Class and Prostitution in the City: Washington DC’s Black Madam- Odessa...
For @AlaiaWilliams for continuing to remind me to write this. Readers are a precious commodity. In the essay “Working for Nothing but a Living” Dr. Sharon Harley describes the life of Odessa Madre, a...
View ArticleSome Historical Ideas on Race, Class and Neighborhoods in DC
Map detailing borders of the Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood in DC. I am a board certified nerd. Meaning, I have library cards from three states, and I would get one more if they would let me. Given my...
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