July 2012
13 posts
Racialicious: deliciouskaek: Remember Erika... →
Oh my god, this sounds amazing! Maxine Shaw Attorney-at-Law was the absolute best. Erika Alexander is hilarious. And this sounds like exactly what I want to read. Octavia Butler will be inspiring so much amazing art for … ever? For a really really long time. Writing/visual arts/music/dance and tons of other shit. I want so badly for her to be able to know this.
deliciouskaek:
Remember...
: Sam Delaney: →
searchingforknowledge:
“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people…
The Wait of the Nation II: Parent Companies, the... →
This is awesome. I love her for doing the work to make these connections for me. Brill.
crunkfeministcollective:
On May 24th I posted the blog “The Wait of the Nation” in response to the four-part HBO documentary “The Weight of the Nation,” and I specifically focused on part three “Children in Crisis.” My major concern is both the blaming of individual parents as the primary problem and the...
Young Badman Brown: [TW: Rape] List of Comedians... →
hiphopcheerleader:
sonic-hip-attack:
List of Comedians that are being unapologetically dense about this issue:
Jim Norton (“Why is it okay for an actor to play a rapist, but not for a comic to joke about it?”)
Louis C.K. (“your show makes me laugh every time I watch it. And you have…
I seriously can't stand skeleton armies. The fact...
LOVE.
sourcedumal:
For reals, skeleton dudees.
You ain’t doin shit cuz you just bone
You ain’t got no ligaments, tendons or muscle to get that shit goin
Ain’t no nerves to do no synapses to create an arc.
Y’all asses ain’t got NO ATP to do no muscle contractions.
You ain’t bout that lyfe, skeleton army dudes. You ain’t bout that lyfe.