So when the most influential black woman in the world, armed with degrees from some of the best institutions in the world, names Beyonce, a singer best known for a song called “Bootylicious,” as someone she aspires to be, how can we expect young black girls who didn’t go to Princeton to aspire to more than that?
Did Michelle Obama Make a Major Misstep with Beyonce? | Loop21 (via tballardbrown)
Wow, is this person being serious? Firstly, Beyonce is not best known for the song ‘Bootylicious’. She actually has a solo career that has seen her release four multi-platinum selling albums, has won more grammys than you can count on both hands, is worth $300 million, and is still going strong. If anything, Beyonce is a prime example of a woman who’s worked her fucking ass off to get every little bit of what she has, so don’t you dare come at her in this manner and diminish her worth to something ridiculous and as demeaning as what we all know you’re really alluding to.
Beyonce is a smart woman, so is Michelle Obama who is very aware of this fact. Both serve as equally amazing individuals for black girls, or anyone else for that matter, to look up to.
Black girls can do whatever the hell they want to do - including having aspirations that merge superior academic goals with conquering the world of entertainment.
This ain’t no misstep, get your facts in check.
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wow…white rhetoric right there, that “armed with degrees”=the only way to be successful. except you don’t say this same shit to white entertainers who do not have shiny academic backgrounds; you don’t question their inspiration values now, do you?
besides academia is NOT the absolute method to test intelligence. that’s some grade A white bullshit that’s been shoved down our throats. not saying degrees don’t help in the long run, but you better the hell not degrade a person’s hard-working ethics to fuel your white, condescending logic
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^^this is a huge part of what bothered me, i think—the author a) doesn’t seem to know a lot about Beyonce and b) values education as a prestige/class marker, not as information/instruction/a tool to help you do stuff. that’s not just racist, that’s also real classist and generally gross.
So when the most influential black woman in the world, armed with degrees from some of the best institutions in the world, names Beyonce, a singer best known for a song called “Bootylicious,” as someone she aspires to be, how can we expect young black girls who didn’t go to Princeton to aspire to more than that?
Did Michelle Obama Make a Major Misstep with Beyonce? | Loop21 (via tballardbrown)
there are some legit reasons to not want to be Beyonce, but this article mostly asserts that she’s not white enough & too sexual. which are…not actually okay. the conclusion isn’t terrible but the way the author gets there is super problematic.
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oh my god. live. otter. chat.
Though no one would ever think of using the term honor violence (we reserve that descriptor for brown people who live somewhere else, motivated by religious something-or-other or tribal something-or-other), one-third of women murdered every year in the United States are killed by their intimate partners. In 2005 that amounted to 1,181 women, or three women every day. To put that in perspective, the UN estimates there are 5,000 honor killings every year in the entire world. 5,000 in a world of 6 billion versus nearly 1,200 in a single country of 300 million. In other words, a woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Feminists. (via popmuslim)
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
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Let me reiterate that for you all …
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
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I think you’ve missed a crutial point though, let me point it out:
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
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yo the statistics in both places are horrifying but phrasing it this way and then acting so bothered by the fact that the usa is worse than pakistan comes off as pretty racist imo, like its somehow an upsetting of the natural order and things would be Right if the opposite were true.
fact is, women should never be killed by their partners, anywhere, so, heres the really disturbing facts about this quote: its not the relative numbers, who has it worse, or whatever nationalist thing that’s going. its that in the world there are approximately 5000 women killed for “honor” every year, and countless more who are murdered (in all countries) whose deaths are not counted as honor killings.
this is horrifying. and i think thats what you want to say, not that the US is worse than one of those places.
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i didn’t read it that way! idk maybe i’m being overly generous but given the way the quote starts, i read those repeats as calling out the bullshit stereotype of Muslim countries as the major location of violence against women w/the US as an implied superior alternative equality wonderland utopia. the whole imperialism as “saving brown women from brown men” thing, following spivak.
Not just how I feel about Fanfic based on my work... but how a host of different authors feel, alphabetically, pro- and con...
I’m not a fanfiction reader, but I think this list is pretty interesting
Lisle, Holly.[114] Claims fanfic is a derivative work and will be prosecuted in order to protect her legal rights. Also has said that “Fanfic is to writing what ‘Piss Christ’ was to art.”[115]
haha i don’t know who this author is but that is an embarrassingly nonsensical comparison
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So proud of my chapter on Audre Lorde as Prologue to Black Queer Feminist Speculative Fiction in the new book The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative!!!!
HOLY SHIT THIS BOOK SOUNDS AMAZING HOLY FUCK
looks pretty dang good, goin on my list of stuff to grab at my next library.
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Caribbean: Crossroads of the World opens on June 12, 2012 and runs through January 6th 2013 at El Museo del Barrio in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem. The exhibit will examine the visual arts and aesthetic development across the Caribbean, considering the histories of the Spanish, French, Dutch and English islands and their Diasporas. Crossroads is a groundbreaking exhibit, highlighting rarely-seen works in thematic sections ranging from the Haitian Revolution to the present. More than 500 works of art spanning four centuries illuminate changing aesthetics and ideologies and provoke meaningful conversations about topics ranging from commerce and cultural hybridity to politics and pop culture. Images (left) Arnaldo Roche Rabell & (right) Enrique Grau.
Oh my god, I need to see this. If only they could bring this exhibit here, like a tour around the most important museums in the Caribbean. Imagine these works in the lands that provided their origins in the context in which they are being presented, I CAN’T DEAL. So inspiring, so instructive, so good, I want to cry.
this is awesome, the Caribbean doesn’t get much coverage in big Latin America survey exhibitions! or anywhere else, really. wish i could go!
it’s sailor dress obsession time. ha. like it’s ever not sailor dress obsession time.
im mad as hell and not gonna take it any more
um im sorry but this image is representative of my experience?? wow. cool mutant erasure.
Look, I know the Star Wars fans are having their lispy celebration today, but as much as I love Han Solo (and boy howdy, do I love me some Han Solo), this is a Star Trek blog and we will celebrate it as such.
AND ALSO WITH YOU
let us pray
The New York Times would like to know, what’ll it be, ladies? Motherhood or feminism? I don’t know, I think a better question might be: Are you freaking kidding me?
Published 1949. Yes, we’re still here. (Taken with instagram)
current status: extant
