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What is your gift?

Mine says intellect and I thought it was love

You are a big thinker, and you’re always playing with new ideas. You are curious about the world. You enjoy learning and developing new theories. You enjoy researching, analyzing, and solving problems. Thinking hard feels good! You’re the type of person who finds most mental tasks to be easy. You love to stretch your brain.

http://survley.com/what-is-your-gift.html

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BECOMING HUMAN: Words and images to end rape culture.

Honored to be performing one of my very own pieces, His Lust Was for My Black! Join this gorgeous movement transforming Rape Culture in the spirit of ending sexism, racism, and gender violence! LAUNCH WEEKEND! 1st Friday Opening of all designs & writing submitted, World Premiere Performance, Launch Party and related films. Yay! Click link below for more information

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Black Film Noir

If during the 1940s and 1950s Hollywood was not actively racist, it still largely ignored race. Some academics have gone so far as saying that film noir was essentially a manifestation of a transference of a fear of blackness, the other, to a noir nether world of ambivalence and sublimation. But my view is to the contrary. If you look at noir movies over the classic period from the early 40s to the late 50s, a significant number of progressive writers and directors made noirs that deal sympathetically with race as important elements of the story. This is more than can be said of the body of Hollywood output for the period.

Here I would like to cover some of these noirs from 1941 through to 1956. The Harry Belafonte produced Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) is not included in this discussion, as we are dealing here with white Hollywood’s portrayal of blacks. -Tony D’Ambra

Read more: http://filmsnoir.net/film_noir/race-and-film-noir-black-and-noir.html#ixzz2kqtTvpFm
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Fashion consists of the right to be fashionable

So basically this egregious new policy forces into view the okay of racial discrimination in the 21st century. A policy that ONLY profiles black males under 30, interrogating them as though they have no phucking right to be there! STOP BUYING GARBAGE FROM THESE CORPORATE WASTELANDS!!!

NEW YORK – Barneys New York CEO Mark Lee today announced that the luxury department store will begin requiring young black males to provide proof of income before shopping at its flagship location on Madison Avenue. Lee—who has led the company since 2010—said the new policy will “prevent incidents like the one that occurred in April,” when a black teenager was arrested on suspicion of credit card fraud after Barneys employees didn’t believe he could afford the $350 belt he purchased.

Lee said that, in a perfect world, anyone could walk off the street and shop at Barneys. “But the reality is that most people can’t afford our beautiful, high-end products,” Lee explained, “and some people—almost always young black males—resort to credit card fraud to get them.”

Barneys’ new policy will require all African American males under the age of 30 to show security guards pay stubs or income tax forms before being granted admittance into the store. “This way,” Lee said, “once they’re inside, we’ll know for sure what they can and can’t afford, and we won’t be forced to racially profile them.”
– See more at: http://www.newslo.com/barneys-to-require-proof-of-income-for-young-black-males/#sthash.HhVhTtGc.dpuf

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We’re A Culture Not A Costume

Be mindful folks that Halloween is a notorious time for offensive outfits. If you’re still not sure what your costume is going to be this year, make sure you don’t go the culturally appropriative route. Dressing up as “another culture,” is racist, and an act of privilege. Not only does it lead to offensive, inaccurate, and stereotypical portrayals of other people’s culture (Do you think Día de los Muertos is just “Mexican Halloween”? Well it’s not, so put away your facepaint), but is also an act of appropriation in which someone who does not experience that oppression is able to “play,” temporarily, an “exotic” other, without experience any of the daily discrimination faced by other cultures. Like dressing up as a “sexy squaw” while being completely unaware of the horrific rates of sexual violence Native women face. (Read more about the harmful effects of sexualizing Native women by Adrienne at Native Appropriations).