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Womanism

Double Consciousness: I Want Nicki Minaj AND Jasmine Mans

by November 4, 2010

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s likely that you’ve seen Jasmine Mans’ “Mis-education of Barbie” performance running rampant across the internet. As the spoken word poet critiques Nicki Minaj and the lack of “real” women in the hip hop industry, it has reignited an ongoing conversation about women, sexuality, and hip hop. As [...]

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Interview with filmmakers of Zemira, a South Bronx coming-of-age story

by Ope Bukola November 1, 2010
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“Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.” – Nikki Giovani The above quote greets visitors to the site of the film Zemira.  The film is the coming-of-age story of Zemira, a young black girl living in South Bronx. It is loosely based on the experiences of its co-writer and Producer Mecca [...]

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Running to change the world

by Ope Bukola October 11, 2010
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“For you will find, as women have found through the ages, that changing the world requires a lot of free time. Requires a lot of mobility. Requires money, and, as Virginia Woolf put it so well, “a room of one’s own,” preferably one with a key and a lock.” – Alice Walker, In Search of [...]

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Your Swagg: Lost & Found

by Patrice Peck October 6, 2010
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You’ve been looking everywhere for it. You’ve searched high and low but still there’s no sign of it… Damn, where’d my swagg go? Fall has arrived in full force and for some reason your fierce factor has dropped to an unacceptable low. Well, stop blaming the season change for your funk, because although it may [...]

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Violence in the arms of a sister: brutal hazing at black sorority leads to lawsuits

by Ope Bukola October 4, 2010
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I was pretty horrified when I saw the link to this story (hat tip Change.Org) about allegations of brutal hazing by a San Jose State University student who was pledging the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority. I have great fascination with black sororities. I’m not/have never been in one but, as someone who grapples with sisterhood [...]

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No Wedding, No Womb? – married parents don’t guarantee successful children

by Ope Bukola September 27, 2010
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Blogger Christelyn Karazin, interviewed here, does not shy away from controversy when it comes to black women and issues of love, sex, and marriage. Last week, she set off a firestorm in the blogosphere last week with her blog series No Wedding No Womb. As part of the campaign, she invited writers to endorse saving [...]

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