Q.U.E.E.N. Speaks Music is a powerful medium. Since it’s inception it has been multifaceted. Music has lead the…View Post

Q.U.E.E.N. Speaks

Music is a powerful medium. Since it’s inception it has been multifaceted. Music has lead the…

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Racism, Sexism, Identity, Oh My!In this blog post, my aim is to discuss some of the issues that systemic oppression/domination…View Post

Racism, Sexism, Identity, Oh My!

In this blog post, my aim is to discuss some of the issues that systemic oppression/domination…

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A Quick Introduction to Whiteness and Whiteness Studies

I’ll start with a funny Dave Chappelle video on studying white people:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UayQTu2kH-U&w=585&h=360]

Now for the serious bit…

Whiteness as Personified Oppression

What is Whiteness?

Douglass Massey in his work…

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Wars for Oil Joke Wonder which country will spill too much olive oil next?View Post

Wars for Oil Joke

Wonder which country will spill too much olive oil next?

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Cultural Healing-Part 1 Resilience

Reblogged from BONDFIRES:

The Transatlantic slave trade is often referred to as the “Black Holocaust” or Maafa, a Swahili word meaning “great tragedy” but,  it is hard to fully grasp the magnitude of this tragedy with  words or to truly  understand the…

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“Using the Master’s Tools”: The Failure of Calling the Boston Bombers WhiteDzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the “Boston Bombers”. Of course everyone in America and presumably…View Post

“Using the Master’s Tools”: The Failure of Calling the Boston Bombers White

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the “Boston Bombers”.

Of course everyone in America and presumably…

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Black Up [Short Film] [vimeo 31927472 w=500 h=281] Shabazz Palaces – “Black Up” from WHAT MATTERS MOST on Vimeo. “Black…View Post

Black Up [Short Film]

[vimeo 31927472 w=500 h=281]

Shabazz Palaces – “Black Up” from WHAT MATTERS MOST on Vimeo.

“Black…

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Q.U.E.E.N. // Janelle Monae x Erykah Badu As promised, Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu have released a collaborative track entitled,…View Post

Q.U.E.E.N. // Janelle Monae x Erykah Badu

As promised, Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu have released a collaborative track entitled,…

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Are Black Women Asking for It?

Reblogged from Wisdom From The Field:

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I was dancing with my girlfriends at a party last weekend when I felt a hand quickly slither up my thighs and grab my vagina. I turned around and…

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Hauhart describes a survey that is used to illustrate how students in an online sociology course… http://wp.me/sDq5I-1714

Hauhart describes a survey that is used to illustrate how students in an online sociology course tend to learn about inequality in everyday life. The online course discussed personalizes key concepts found within Hoschild’s works on the ‘second shift’ of…

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