February 2012
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Feb 29th
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“…I wanted so much to side with Davis during her showdown with Smiley, but...”
Feb 29th
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“I am a woman who, in 1989, had a safe and legal abortion. The purpose of the...”
Feb 29th
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““…The position against anti-gay violence is not at all in...”
Feb 28th
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“Some of Hollywood’s goals are to reinforce white supremacy, patriarchy,...”
Feb 27th
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“Perhaps now that the Oscars are over, we can move onward and leave #TheHelpmovie...”
Feb 27th
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“‎”…If Mother Tongue Monologues is the vehicle through which Black...”
Feb 23rd
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#NYPD monitoring #Muslim students @ #Yale, #Penn,... →
“…Police trawled daily through student websites run by Muslim student groups at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers and 13 other colleges in the Northeast….”   DISTURBING.
Feb 23rd
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.@AndreaPlaid's .@Racialicious article "Very Smart... →
.@AndreaPlaid in all of her Black feminist fierceness weighs in on Too$horts egregious video/comments in her most recent article for @Racialicious
Feb 23rd
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#NYC #LGBT CENTER: #Women's #Film Series presents...
NYC LGBT CENTER: Women’s Film Series presents An Evening with Filmmaker and Artist Tiona McClodden Event Date Wednesday, February 29 2012 : 6:30pm – 8:00pm Location The Center Description Wednesday, February 29, 2012   Program 7PM Women’s Film Series presents An Evening with Filmmaker and Artist Tiona McClodden Join filmmaker and artist Tiona McClodden as she discusses her work as...
Feb 23rd
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“You can AVOID the commentary and watch Whitney Houston’s funeral via this...”
Feb 18th
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“I’m appreciative of LIVE coverage of Whitney Houston’s funeral. At...”
Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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“ONE NIGHT ONLY!!! February 24, 2012: Black Women’s BluePrint Presents:...”
Feb 17th
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“Gendered Violence Against African-American Girls and Young Women ~ A FREE...”
Feb 16th
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“#Rape #SexualAssault #Domestic Violence February 16, 2012 at 7pm Rutgers...”
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Feb 16th
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newmodelminority: The Los Angeles Times today published a report informing us that Twitter stores users’ IP addresses for 18 months. The company also downloads users’ entire phone and email address books when they use the mobile phone app and agree to let Twitter “find friends” to connect with via the social media service. Twitter also retains this data for 18 months. I am going to have to...
Feb 15th
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Why @RolandSMartin’s #Homophobic Tweets Shouldn’t... →
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Darnell L. Moore, and Kenyon Farrow’s collaborative article on standing at the intersections of Roland Martin’s homophobia and GLAAD’s racism in their collective piece for The Feminist Wire. “Over and over again as racially-conscious, Black feminist lesbian and gay people, we find ourselves being told to be silent when misogyny and homophobia rears...
Feb 15th
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Blow The Whistle: Too $hort's Bad Advice for Boys →
‎”…The 45(!)-year-old [Too $hort] isn’t telling the young bredren how to get a date to the school dance or how to ask a cutiepie classmate for her phone number. No, $hort Dogg is explaining in very graphic detail how to digitally stimulate a young girl sexually, or how to “finger” one, if you will…” ~ Jamilah Lemieux
Feb 15th
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Too $hort and the Anatomy of a Weak Apology →
Akiba Solomon breaks down Too $hort’s egregious behavior…. “There’s a major difference between profit-driven behind-covering and making a meaningful public apology that addresses the core issues of a violation or mistake…”
Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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#Grammy's #DomesticViolence is NOT OKAY
From Alex DiBranco, Senior Organizer, Women’s Rights, Change.org: Dear feminist bloggers and advocates, I’m reaching out to request your help in calling the Grammys to account for trivializing domestic violence. Chris Brown’s performance at the Grammys last night, the first time since he beat up then-girlfriend Rhianna, has caused significant outrage. What’s more shocking...
Feb 14th
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#RobynCrawford on relationship with...
Whitney Houston’s former long-time best friend/assistant, Robyn Crawford, speaks for first time to Esquire magazine, post Whitney Houston’s physical transition…  If you ask me, Robyn says SO much without saying TOO much… All of this is SO painful and devastating. http://www.esquire.com/the-side/music/whitney-houston-6654718?src=rss
Feb 13th
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“Hey Grammy’s, where’s the tribute to the late great songwriter Nick...”
– Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Feb 13th
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“‎So far, Black artists get to perform Hip-hop; and they have the privilege to...”
– http://raday.blogs.com/salon/about-michael.html
Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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“I think Roland Martin deserved censure and suspension, just like Don Imus...”
– Son of Baldwin
Feb 9th
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“‎”Okay…while I am in no way defending Roland Martin (or anyone else...”
Feb 9th
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#TheHelp (You're welcome, [B]lack people.)
Oooh how I LOVE the redux of the poster for “The Help”!!!! It is fabulously BRILLIANT (and, for the record, this critique does not take away from Viola Davis’ and Octavia Spencer’s phenomenal, award-winning performances in that horrific *to me* film)
Feb 6th
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January 2012
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500 Years of Chicano History offered for FREE to... →
grrspit: velocicrafter: Banned 500 Years of Chicano History offered free to AZ students by ABQ publisher 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, edited by Elizabeth Martinez and published by the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), is included in a set of primarily Chicano and Native American books that have been banned by the Tucson Independent School District. The school district says it’s...
Jan 31st
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#Meditation Practices - Religion and Spirituality... →
liberationfromwithin: While I definitely will not be teaching vipassana meditation (you have to take a 10-day course http://dhamma.org/ to learn the technique), I’m looking forward to returning to Swarthmore College this afternoon to talk about my being a practitioner of vipassana for 10-years; and the impact it has had on me and hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world for...
Jan 31st
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“The Spoils and Generational Impact of War. Reflecting upon the impact of the...”
– For additional information, please read “A Black Man Fights the Draft,” Interview With Michael Simmons by Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an AfroLez®femcentric Cultural Worker (Black, Feminist, Queer Documentary Filmmaker, International Lecturer,...
Jan 23rd
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“Hmm… “Black music” is marketed, distributed, and heard globally on every single...”
Jan 23rd
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November 2011
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Jon Stewart on Jerry Sandusky's phone interview... →
I am GRATEFUL for Jon Stewart’s spot-on expose of Jerry Sandusky and his PEDOPHILE attorney…. It’s wretched that ANYONE would want to defend these crimes, which is not only the acts that Sandusky perpetuated against children, but also ALL (no exceptions) who were involved with the...
Nov 18th
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Nov 18th
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#AARSBL November 19 Screening/Panel of NO! The...
“’NO!’ Breaking Silences Around Black Women and Rape” A Film Screening and Panel Discussion Co-Sponsored by the Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group, and the Black Theology Group at the American Academy of Religion’s 2011 Annual Meeting November 19, 2011 Marriott Marquis (Session A19-407) San Francisco, CA 8:00pm Description: An intergenerational panel...
Nov 18th
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Nov 18th
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Nov 18th
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Nov 15th
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Nov 15th
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“Who created this notion that just because you’re related to someone by...”
Nov 15th
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“This tribe called “Women of Color” is not an ethnicity. It is one of the...”
– Aurora Levins Morales, My Name is This Story from Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios.  (via art-is-the-word) Exactly. (via blackfeminismlives)
Nov 15th
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“Please don’t consistently urinate on me while saying it’s water; and...”
Nov 15th
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Embracing Force of (Black) Feminist Teaching →
“As a Black feminist, I know the more powerful I am as a Black woman the more powerful my whole community is. The more whole I am, the more whole we all are.”~ SistaFriend/SistaComrade Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs  This is a powerful interview, which is an affirmation to all of humanity through Alexis’ focus on Black women and girls. BLACK FEMINISM LIVES!
Nov 15th
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“The World We Want Is Us by Alice Walker (written for #Occupy Writers) It...”
–  http://occupywriters.com/works/by-alice-walker
Nov 15th
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“Recently via twitter someone asked me if based on my handle {@AfroLez} I am a...”
Nov 15th
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“I came to filmmaking as an activist when I learnt first hand the power of self...”
– We have 39 days left of our crowd funding campaign. Will you help us meet our goal? http://www.indiegogo.com/Alice-Walker-Beauty-In-Truth-2
Nov 14th
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