February 2012
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Whitney Houston Biopic Won't Necessarily Cast An... →
“It doesn’t necessarily need to be a great singer to play the role,” the insider tells me. “I’m sure they will use Whitney’s voice for the songs. What they are looking for is a great actress, someone that can bring to life both the pain and the joy Whitney experienced. Does she have to be an African-American actress? Not necessarily.”
“I know I was born / to wear out at least / one hundred angels.”
– Yusef Komunyakaa (via elidot)
what i just read: A Feminist Care Package for Too... →
Dear Too $hort, We are a collective of people of color who are angered and saddened by your comments in a video for XXL magazine. We are angry because no one at the magazine thought to pull the plug on the interview and we are sad because you seem unaware that…
“For the lesbian of color, the ultimate rebellion she can make against her native...”
– Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 3rd Edition, p. 41 (via agradschoolbreakup)
“This is covert white supremacy in the guise of educational...”
– Junot Diaz’s book “Drown” was part of the banned curriculum of Mexican American Studies. Diaz won the Pulitzer prize for “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”
CINNA: DISTRICT TWELVE'S OTHER VOLUNTEER?
CINNA
DISTRICT TWELVE’S OTHER VOLUNTEER?
By now, avid Hunger Games fans are well aware that Katniss Everdeen is District 12’s first volunteer Tribute in decades - but she won’t be the only volunteer on Team 12 at the 74th Hunger Games! Meet Cinna, the hotly-tipped young stylist who — get this — actually requested to work with the D12 Tributes. We have to say, this brave if not odd entreaty...
Spilling Whitney's Tea Redux →
Articles like Tatchell’s exhibit the exact concerns I attempted to address in my response to the email I received after posting my my Whitney eulogy. It’s so clear that Tatchell’s investment is not in honoring Houston or her relationship with Crawford. Rather, Tatchell sees Houston’s death as an opportunity to forward his own agenda. Houston is not a friend, but an example. And using people as...
Black Feminism LIVES!: Call for Contributions... →
this is how i know
that skin is thin and bright and precious
that song can be broke
love slice the veins
that beauty is a call
and we are all responsible
-excerpt from Almost Bop for Whitney Houston by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Falling in love is so bittersweet. The life and death of…
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passport harlem: Spilling Whitney's Tea →
After my Whitney post, I got an email from a someone who read it. She was in the middle of a debate about whether or not to it was too soon to discuss Whitney Houston’s sexuality, namely rumors regarding a relationship with her former assistant, Robyn Crawford. (Crawford’s response to…
The Voice: Remembering Whitney Houston (1963 —... →
by Summer McD @fecundmellow
The Voice. When one is colloquially known as such, it becomes easy to forget that such sound emanates from inside a human being. The Voice. A disembodied moniker. So spectacularly general, simply an article and noun sans the dressing of more instructive, clarifying wording: “of reason” or “of God” or “of an angel.” The Voice. So intangible, yet generating a viewable...
Until you do right by me, everything you even...
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
– Happy Birthday, Frederick Douglass! (via outofprintclothing)
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“And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations,...”
– Sonia Sanchez (via vertigoverb)
Life in Marvelous Times: Finding Freedom in All... →
I attribute my nerdiness to epic stay-in-your-room sentences levied by my parents for one or another offense. The thing is, after so many hours alone, I got used to making stuff out of the stillness. I got acquainted with my confines. I got focused: on the molding bonding the wall and floor, the…