March 2012
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“that’s the thing about locs. they make you work for it.”
– my loctician
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Watchwhat happens when two black girls try to make sushi but forget to buy soy sauce.
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the new jim crow
by: michelle alexander
we should ask ourselves whether efforts to achieve “cosmetic” racial diversity- that is, reform efforts that make institutions look good on the surface without the needed structural changes- have actually helped to facilitate the emergence of mass incarceration and interfered with the development of a more compassionate race consciousness… the...
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access
no, i don’t think it’s okay for men to have pictures of naked women all over their computers, desktops, walls, hard drives, diaries, over their toilets, as bookmarks (bless you for reading though), in secret coded computer files.
what made men believe they should have unrestricted access to the female visual? unearned? at their own discretion? why tear down the...
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when it hurts so bad
sometimes you hear a song multiple times. you’ve sung the lyrics, said you loved it, but you never really listened. and you couldn’t have, because life hadn’t tuned your ears yet. hadn’t presented the hurdles that make you strong enough to pick up the lyrics, and despite them having moved your body at some point they never moved your spirit.
[what you want might...
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let's nab oprah
huey: i call it the black power fist. the black power fist is actually a stun glove that i made with instructions i found on the internet. it delivers thousands of volts of imperialism stopping electricity without the need of super powers or secret alien technology. and it's inexpensive enough to fit well within even the most frugal revolutionary's defense budget.
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le 19 février
One year ago I started my locs. Afterwards, I wrote a list of everything it took to start them:
weed
honeybush vanilla tea
lush
real honey
july birthdays
lost love stories
silence
essential oils
water
tears
promises
broken hearts
forgiveness
laughter
coincidence
perfection
angel’s bare skin
lawn chairs
stories
liberia
trust
restoration
no speakers, but still music
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interdiasporically
|inˈtərdīˈaspərəik(ə)lē| * adverb
existing between or involving different diasporas: “right, you just want to marry interdiasporically” - josette or i am the product of an interdiasporic relationship.
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“it’s like a boomerang that turns out to be a frisbee midair.”
– khalil
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