Oh God

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Tell It WOC Speak

Read it here.
This carnival is our attempt to give voice to our shared issues. We have a strong history of activism and organizing and it is in this vein that we have chosen this space to highlight the various ways we have attempted to carve out a niche in the online world. We [...]

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On Speaking and Survival

The internet, she is not my friend this week. It is mostly because of this.
And truly I have been uber busy these days without much time to check out the latest for which I am grateful. It’s been trigger city, folks. Forgive any muddleheadedness that follows. I don’t know what kind [...]

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Wow, PETA – trivializing racialized terrorism much?

PETA uses KKK imagery at dog show protest
h/t Macon D

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Things you should read

Ay – I’ve no time to write so how about I point you to some fabulous stuff other people are writing?
The Black Snob – On Little Black Girls, Beauty and Barbie Dolls.
So with this project I wanted to both bring to light the true beauty of all girls, especially those battling that [...]

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A History of Black Women’s Singing

Anxious Black Woman has a great post up:
The same year Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial, indeed the same month, Billie Holiday recorded for the first time her signature song, Strange Fruit, a song about lynching, which she had called her “personal protest” song.
Both performances are etched in our national conscious, and the black female [...]

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Sylvie – Sweet Honey in the Rock

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I’ll Rise

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Feminist Cat Lovers – Unite!

Oh, Renee. There is so much I agree with you on. But on this, I cannot budge. I present to you my Misty.

Let us continue to fight the good fight – feminist cat lovers unite.

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Zora Neale Hurston

A post per day for Black History Month

Because my students are reading Zora Neale Hurston this week, she is on my mind. I honor her for being a woman who was not afraid to speak her mind, who was not ashamed of her culture, who was not afraid concerned with being a “nice lady” [...]

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