June 2011
21 posts
Just $150 more!
shawtygotskillz:
Hey all!
The AMC starts today! We didn’t get anywhere near our ambition $6k goal but we made almost enough to get all our folks here!
We are short $150. If you’ve got some loose change and can help us reach this small goal we would so greatly appreciate it!!!
If you’ve got it, please pay pal moyazb[at]gmail.com!
xoxo,
Shawty Got Skillz Crew!
Just $150 more! Come on! You...
Question to everybody! Please respond.....
larepublicadedetroit:
If there were a national (US) Afro-Latino event going on (whether film showing, conference, etc.) and there was a PayPal account or some other way to offer funds, would you be willing to donate (even if it’s 5 or 10 bucks) to help raise visibility and ensure that the event could occur (as smoothly as possible)?
Thanks! Vio
ja ja. of course! Latinegr@s $$ power…..
Happy (Black/Brown/VOC) Vagina Celebration Day!
bettacomecorrect:
Here, in this place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. LOVE it. LOVE it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it… You got to LOVE it, YOU!… This is flesh I’m talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Flesh that needs to rest and dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms, I’m telling...
“I like people too much or not at all.”
– Sylvia Plath (via cavesoflilith)
Being Queer and from the Hood....
newmodelminority:
I just told my play brother about goldy. He is arguably the only person in my inner circle in dee cee that hasn’t met her yet. I was nervous.
He works a lot.
He said something interesting. Which is that, being from the hood makes it easier to be yourself.
I don’t know if I agree with that.
Implicitly he was saying that I was lucky and that he knew women like me, but they...
“Perhaps in some simplistic context, such violence might seem unnecessary, yet in...”
– newblackman on the Rihanna video (via drst)
I have to admit I’m not a big fan of Rihanna’s pipes, but regarding the pseudo-concern about her video promoting gun violence, all I can say is, bullshit. Guns and violence are central fixtures of US culture (see: Palin), but only certain, very specific...
Confessions of a Sable Fan Gyrl: Readings on... →
confessionsofasablefangyrl:
Below are a few of the pieces that informed my post on Rihanna and afrofuturism. A more comprehensive bibliography on afrofuturism and black speculative fiction is available here: http://afrofuturism.net/criticism/. For a piece like “Man Down,” there is a lot of work in the field of gender and…
Shawty Got Skillz Video Love from the Other Side...
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/24541725 w=400&h=225] Shawty Got Skillz from misscripchick on Vimeo. Mia and I are so ecstatic that our Shawty Got Skillz fam will be heading to the Allied Media Conference this year! The Allied Media Conference is what made To the Other Side of Dreaming even seem like it was possible. We want our community to be able to experience the transformative stretching of...
“While it was painful to be so maligned, I will pay that price as a poet to speak...”
– ~Ntozake Shange 