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I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age, are required to consider the reality of the opposite gender’s consciousness in a way that men aren’t. This isn’t to say that women don’t often misunderstand, mistreat, and stereotype men, both in literature and in life. But on a basic level, functioning in society requires that women register that men are fully conscious; it is not really possible for a woman to throw up her hands and write men off as eternally unknowable space aliens — and even if she says she has, she cannot really behave as though she has. Every element of her life — from reading books about boys and men to writing papers about the motivations of male characters to being attentive to her own safety to navigating most any institutional or professional or economic sphere — demands an ironclad familiarity with, and belief in, the idea that men really are fully human entities. And no matter how many men come to the same conclusions about women, the structure of society simply does not demand so strenuously that they do so. If you didn’t really deep down believe that women were, in general, exactly as conscious as you, you could probably still get by in life. You could probably still get a book deal. You could probably still get elected to office.
–Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via florida-uterati)
To apply a bit of intersectionality to this…women of color and the many marginalized communities we belong to—especially communities of color—have been saying this for a minute.
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Left of Black S2:E33 | May 21, 2012
Race, Writing and the Attack on Black Studies with Adam Mansbach and La TaSha Levy on Season Finale of Left of Black
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by writer Adam Mansbach, the author of several books including Angry Black White Boy (2005), The End of the Jews (2008) and the New York Times Bestseller Go the F**K to Sleep. Mansbach discusses the inspiration for Macon Detornay—the protagonist of Angry Black White Boy—the surprise success of his “adult children’s book” and his new graphic novel Nature of the Beast. Finally Neal and Mansbach discuss race in the Obama era and the legacy of the Beastie Boys.
Later, Neal is joined, also via Skype by LaTaSha B. Levy, doctoral candidate in the Department of African-American Studies at Northwestern University. Levy and several of her colleagues including Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor andRuth Hayes, the subjects of a celebratory profile in The Chronicle of Higher Education, were later attacked by a blogger at the same publication, raising questions about the continued hostility directed towards the field of Black Studies. Neal and Levy discuss the responses to the attack, as well as her research on the rise of Black Republicans.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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It looks like D’Angelo is officially gearing up for his comeback to the music industry! With his upcoming gig at Essence’s Music Festival, as well as being announced as one of the headliners for Jay-Z’s ‘Made In America’ festival this September, it’s evident that D’Angelo is not playing around. He even managed to snag a spread and interview in GQ magazine. Check out a few excerpts from the interview:
D’Angelo on the evil in music
There’s forces that are going on that I don’t think a lot of motherf-ckers that make music today are aware of,” he says. “It’s deep. I’ve felt it. I’ve felt other forces puling at me.” He stubs out his cigarette and leans toward me, taking my hand. “This is a very powerful medium that we are involved in,” he says gravely.” “I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know? The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of the energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you’ve got to be careful.”Paul Hunter (Director of Untitled) on the video being misunderstood
Most people think the ‘Untitled’ video was about sex, but my direction was completely opposite of that. It was about his grandmother’s cooking. Think of your grandmother’s greens, how it smelled in the kitchen. What did the yams and the fried chicken taste like? That’s what I want you to express.” The video may have looked like foreplay, but it was actually about family, Hunter insists-about intimacy.
Later when I tell D’Angelo this, he says, “It’s so true: We talked about the Holy Ghost and the church before that take. The veil is the nudity and the sexuality. But what they’re really getting is the spirit.D’Angelo on the effects of the ‘Untitled’ video
One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel like f-cked-up, and I threw the money back at her. I was like, ‘I’m not a stripper.’
On the last day of the eight-month tour, Questlove says D’Angelo told him, “Yo, man, I cannot wait until this f-cking tour is over. I’m going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.” Questlove thought he was joking. “I was like, ‘You’re a funny guy.’ And then it started to happen.That’s how much he wanted to distance himself.”
I will say that I’m interested in hearing the new music he has been working on!
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The 1st episode of Season 2 of “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl”, which is now a part of the @i_am_other family, will premiere in JUNE.
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bb Maya Rudolph is not here for your foolishness.
at all.
Minnie Riperton and her daughter Maya Rudolph. I’ll bet Minnie would be just thrilled at how Maya turned out.(via racialicious)
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PARTING SHOT: @rodmcullom's @EbonyMag article: "'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell': Why Has Black Media Ignored the Sexuality of FAMU Hazing Victim Robert Champion?" →
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Very relevant to my life right now. I’m far from getting married but seriously wondering if I will be able to when I want to.
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