December 2011
27 posts
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Dec 29th
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“Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit,but that doesn’t...”
Dec 28th
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Dec 23rd
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“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of...”
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Do you know who Sarah "Saatije" Baartman is?
I do …. but let the world know!!  The Hottentot Venus (Saartjie Baartman) became the focus of scientific debate over racial inferiority waged at the Paris Academy of Science. Baartman was exhibited in carnival-like shows across Britain that sensationalized her unusual anatomy: she had steatopygia, an over-development of fatty tissue around the buttocks, a trait common to Hottentot women,...
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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–  Once an emotional stereotype has been created—of the Jews, of blacks, of Catholics, of Muslims—it is readily absorbed in the bones like strontium 90, an enduring poison that distorts the perceptions of the victims. All minority groups have suffered, but none have been stereotyped more heinously...
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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“Racism and the will to survive it creates a sense of intra-racial loyalty that...”
– Joan Morgan, Hip Hop Feminist.
Dec 14th
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“The 17-Year-Old Pilot Kimberly Anyadike When Kimberly Anyadike was little,...”
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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invisiblechic asked: Your blog is everything. I needed to see positive images today. Thank you!
Dec 7th
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“I want to say to every Negro woman present, don’t sit down and wait for...”
– Madame C.J Walker
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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“A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can’t...”
– Dr. Dorothy I Height
Dec 4th
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Dec 2nd
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jafarface asked: if you wanted to spot me in a room--let's say a classroom--i'd be the most unaproachable black girl in the room. i'd have an empty seat either to the left, right, or both sides of me. i'd be staring down at my hand writing or trying to burn holes through the walls with my heat ray vision. i'm always listening and always aware though i don't look like i'm there....
Dec 2nd
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