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Click on link to watch video: White man tells black lady to get to the back of the bus….What is this world coming to???? 2014 May 5, around 4:30pm ..Brooklyn B35 bus. By Nostrand and church ave this happened. I tried reporting it to the news but the media says there’s nothing really they can do about it

Mouth wide open! I think I would’ve followed the sound advice of baba Malcolm and got his racist ass off that bus by any means necessary. His mind ain’t right. Can’t be, acting like that.

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Iconic Laverne Cox: Transgender woman, Advocate, Actress

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Iconic Laverne Cox: Transgender woman, Advocate, Actress

“What a wonderful bday present! Yes today is my birthday and I am on the cover of @TIME magazine. I realize this is way bigger than me and about a tipping point in our nation’s history where it is no kinder acceptable for trans lives to be stigmatized, ridiculed, criminalized and disregarded. This is for my trans siblings out there and for anyone who has ever been told that who you know yourself to be at your core is not legitimate. You are who you know yourselves to be.” -Laverne

I Wish Hooters Was Booters lol!

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Booters lol!

I wish hooters was booters: Sometimes when I’m posting about life’s many happenings I forget about fashion and clothes, hence was one of the main reasons I started this blog (girlrillavintage). The world is a beautiful kaleidoscope- taffeta of glorious stains, distinguished from the surface. Everyone scratching and etching their very own into it’s fabric. A fabric so vast. Every creature breathing to hold space in their very own ways, for all existence-all of us entangled in a web like natty goodness. Any whosters. I found this tank at the thrift earlier this year. I’ve thought long and hard for as long as I can remember, or for as long as Hooters has been in business about how I wished Hooters was in fact Booters ’cause I’m bottom heavy, yah a dig meh? To me ain’t no shame here, embrace here. Booters are like some organic, home grown veggies and fruit, good for the soul and not bad on the eyes at all. Dates back to my mamas, mothers, grandmothers and nem.

Photo on 4-25-14 at 10.50 PM #5

And instead of serving up deep fried anything I would serve up herbal everything (cause if you ain’t healing there is no space for you here) in my swim ‘shotes’, twerk it on a side stack of gluten free yam pancakes, or some curried lentils rolled tight in Ingera- all for the love of people. 🙂 So in the name of SAMO (Basquiat’s and such-visual artists) I kindly defaced this tank to make it personal like the battle between Ramo vs. Spit in the movie Beat Street. Changing one letter made this my shit lol! I hope ya’ll feel me on this. The ‘B’ on this tank is a symbol of my affection and how I value those bottom thickly, plump, ass oceans, tear drops, hour glass, pear shaped, Afro-grapes, chunky, curvacious, muscular skeletoned-’hipsters’ with zebra stripes, jell-O molds, creased, spread wide all out to the side, and cotton soft folds. Our thick is so fine! Sending cup love to the Hooters, but I’m gone need all of the bottom heavy tree lovers to hug the Booters lol! One love
Gracie Berriberry

 

In support of a friend indeed: I want you to save your own life

I told them that this is more from me, not from the divine or anything-I want you to save your life. save each part. cherish each part. forgive those tainted memories and the harshness attached to them. Please. You owe it to your healing. That will give you every permission to let go of the pain. Every permission to live. Swim with the current or against it-yet swim you shall. You’ve been carrying the hurt so long and its heavy like a boulder sat on the center of your chest, crushing you beneath. I’m working on my very own shit! I’m learning to save my own life. ❤ Grace

The Spirit Never Truly Dies

An African proverb reads-“no one is ever truly dead until there is no one left among the living to remember him.” Thank you all for comforting each other and sharing in the memory of Maya Angelou’s transition today. My pop, Magdalen, and Layla nourished my body with delicious food and talks over dinner. Sonya honored her in a moment of silence at dance rehearsal and we dance and drummed in her memory. The love. That is the legacy I wish to leave. I love and love so hard. Rest in Power Mama Angelou. ❤ Gracie

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Food, friends and freedom: Nikki Giovanni remembers Maya Angelou

Photo credit: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/living/maya-angelou-nikki-giovanni-identity/

Vote for Miranda Nicole to Perform at AfroPunk 2014

My girl Miranda Nicole Aka Tiiiiiimber! Has a shot at performing at AfroPunk 2014! We go back to Savannah, poetry and deep friendship. Take a moment. Read about her. Vote for her. I love her so very much! Proud of you boo!

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Breathing life into the art of sound, self-proclaimed, GLAMSOUL Star, Miranda Nicole vibrates with a radiance that is almost too bright to stand. One must dance. Her music draws from childhood inspirations like Sade’ fusing her melodic tone with driving bass lines and deep house grooves. GLAMSOUL, declaring that it is for all souls, Miranda Nicole is ready to color the world with hues that blend together making musical magic, one brushstroke at a time. With the success of her underground House music hit, ‘Kissing You,’ Miranda Nicole has enjoyed playing cities from Miami to Brooklyn’s own Fort Greene Park for its summer music series. Join her in creating the experience that is GLAMSOUL & play the music forward! IG: GLAMSOULSTAR @GLAMSOULSTAR YOUTUBE.COM/GLAMSOULSTAR SOUNDCLOUD.COM/GLAMSOULSOUNDS WWW.GLAMSOUL.NET

 

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