Hey Y’all: I asked the brilliant scholar and just all around good Brother-With-A-Big-B Mark Anthony Neal for a guest blog post on black male privilege. I’ve been thinking about this issue a lot, because it seems like within my community–that would be African American–there is still a lot of sexism, but also a lot of […]
Let’s end this Women’s History Month right, y’all! This Tuesday–that’s TOMORROW–I will be talking with Imani Perry, author of the groundbreaking book, Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop, on Talkshoe.com at 7:30 EASTERN STANDARD TIME. Here’s the link to the podcast page on Talkshoe.com. And here’s Imani’s sassy bio below along […]
I was talking to my mother this morning about finally being a grown woman, and how long it has taken me to come to this moment. It all started from my talking about the new grown woman poems that I am writing and that led me to talking about a brother I was feeling, strong. […]
Dear Rush Limbaugh: The Healthcare Reform Bill has been passed. Remember when you said you’d leave the country if that went through? Well, goodbye and good luck, baby. I wish I could say that we will miss you, but most people with a brain and heart–not to mention a soul– will not. However, I know […]
I found out today (through my Facebook friend Laura Hartmark) that, yet again, a woman poet of African descent has passed on. Ai identified as mulit-racial, a woman with Cheyenne, Choctaw, Chicasaw, Irish, Japansese, and African ancestors, but when I was a very young woman–a girl, really–I came upon her work and it was so […]
From time to time, I’ll ask fabulous people to write guest blogs for me, since I know sometimes y’all will get tired of just me. (I gotta keep you guessing; I’ve found that out!) This is my first guest blog, and I’m really excited about it, since Gina Athena Ulysse, the sister that agreed to […]
I know y’all remember last month, when I supposed to do a “You Gotta Read This” podcast with poet Mitchell L. H. Douglas, and then, something happened with his computer–some roguish individual sent him a virus. I was so upset–and I know you were, too. Well, let’s try this one more ‘gain. On Tuesday, March […]
Remember a few days ago when I posted “Stone Cold Sister Links” and I talked about two sisters who had been together for years, who can now finally get married? Well, they did! Here’s the link to their wedding video on Youtube. It’s so sweet and moving. Now, I will warn you ahead of time, […]
Don’t forget to join me today at 7:30 PM Eastern for a “You Gotta Read This” Podcast with Julie Buckner Armstrong, the editor of The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation! Here’s the link for you to listen. You know it’s going to be so sassy!–Have I ever lied to you?
The Women’s History “You Gotta Read This” Podcast Extravaganza continues, y’all. Yes, when April 1 comes, I’ll probably collapse, but for now, I’m gone party like it’s 1999! I live way out in the middle of the country, and I don’t get to have these kind of conversations regularly. Last week, after Kelly’s podcast, I […]