September 2011
28 posts
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The Most Racist Thing That Ever Happened to Me →
—an excerpt from @Toure’s Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?
” In 1964, in West Virginia a fourteen-year-old Henry Louis Gates Jr. broke his hip and went to a doctor who x‑rayed his knee, which was also in pain. The doctor saw nothing wrong with his knee and deemed his pain psychosomatic. “He said that I had a nervous breakdown because I was an overachiever,”...
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Watchtime is a bit of a blur these days, but I do believe my love & I ended an emotionally productive week (or was it just a long day? I truly can’t keep track) by stumbling on this fantastic TED talk. she was perusing the site &, as often happens in life, the video essentially found us.
we watched as I washed dishes & she sat at our makeshift kitchen table, pausing (&...
Refereeing Serena: Racism, Anger, and U.S.... →
“Serena continues to disrupt tennis spaces with her dark-skinned, powerful body, her flamboyant sartorial choices, her refusal to conform to the professional tennis obstacle course, and her willingness to get angry and show it.
That disruption is necessary—because however “right” or “wrong” it may technically be—it demonstrates that all is not well racially in tennis. Black folks—men and...
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Watchlove her— go, girl!! @abelleinbk ♥
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....”
– Eve Ensler
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Al Janae Hamilton featured in INSIGHT Magazine →
shout out to Allison Maritza Lasky!
cereusarts:
Black. Gay. Phenomenal.
