#BlkGrrrl #Fem2 It has been about six years since we’ve been in each other’s space. And it’s only been a handful of times that I’ve referred to him by title: my rapist.
The weight of that sometimes felt like too much. Far too much, and the un-doing of the emotional work done in the past few years which allowed me to name my experience.
By Teka Lark It was a good day in South Central Los Angeles and I was on my way to get coffee and then I got stopped by a Black cop in Hawthorne. He was a LA Sheriff and it was 3:00 p.m. on a Monday. “I’m not even drunk, it’s 3:00 p.m. who stops…
The members of Hollaback! Cleveland went ballistic. After nearly a month of planning and updates, they feigned confusion. They asked how the focus fit into our mission. They wondered about the role of white people in this. They expressed feelings of betrayal. A few days later, and a day before Pride, they sent a collective email asking for my departure from Hollaback! Cleveland.
Please note this clip contains violence and may be triggering.
By Teka Lark About 12 years ago me and and a bunch of poetry asshole types were hanging out after a poetry reading at Pete’s Cafe in downtown L.A. A person who constantly pronounced my name incorrectly overheard another person say my name correctly and in the ‘I’m just saying way’ asked me, “Am I…
“They want me to be everything that I’m not.” #blkgrrrl @buttonpoetry Crystal Valentine & Aaliyah Jihad – “To Be Black and Woman and Alive”
By Jess Lee Black women count on Black women. Fact. The solidarity that is Black womanhood requires a reach across class, education, socioeconomic status, orientation and cis-ness. Black woman solidarity means —survival. In this white supremacist system that leeches our self-worth, our actual fiscal worth —and sometimes, in the most tragic cases, our lives, we…
By Yung VJ Omo Attack of the Cracker Jack Hacks An internet takedown orchestrated by one (or more) anonymous Black creatives If you are a professional photographer, and you can look a model in the eye while stating that lighting dark skin is just too difficult for whatever reason, then I might have you stored…
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