‘…the trickle had swelled into a river of prominent African-American journalists streaming to black-oriented media.’: blackamazon:
Short story we’re tired as hell of working twice as hard to tell stories while being censored for no other reason th…
Infographic: Casualties From The War On Terror, 9/11, And The Invasion of Iraq
The stats breakdown are as follows:
September 11th Victims: 0.28%
American Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq: 0.55%
Afghan Civilian Casualties: 4.39%
Iraqi Civilian Casualt…
spastasmagoria:
akitron:
batarangs:
azyrian:
shut the fuck up and enjoy it.
Just because it’s not a prettily-worded, fancy-pants compliment from some hoity-toity asshole doesn’t mean they don’t think you look good.
So take that rod out of tha…
Untitled Black Lesbian Elder Project
cabell:
vintagelesbian:
gray37:
The “Untitled Black Lesbian Elder Project” is underway (via AfterEllen.com)
In a youth obsessed culture, and a queer scene where you often have to dig to find good represent…
Help The Cheerleader : theriotmag:
Fund set up to help the cheerleader who was not only thrown off her high school’s squad for REFUSING TO CHEER FOR HER RAPIST, but saw the case against her school thrown out of court as “frivolous” and was order…
Blackamazon: On attractiveness, fashion and the evolution of hip hop: blackamazon:
I am convinced we are not talking about the same thing or wielding it in the same way when I talk about attractiveness with white women especially around issues of recl…
“The worst thing about that kind of prejudice… is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds your self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.”
-Nina Simone
Yes. And, on top of that, I sometimes feel th…
karnythia:
“As a Muslim feminist woman of color, I cannot relate to Slutwalks as it caters mostly to the definition of emancipation set by white women. Slutwalks deviate in terms of delivering the message against sexual assault. It turns a blind eye…
blackamazon:
“Those who subvert social norms are, ostensibly, people who have forgotten that they can be seen, publicly, at any time. Therefore, when they transgress social norms—by expressing physical affection for a person not visibly coded as t…
zesticola:
“I call myself a patriarchal woman because I was socially programmed, as are most women and men, not to see the ways in which women are oppressed by traditional gender roles. I say that I’m recovering because I learned to recognise and …