June 2011
12 posts
“If your wife is unhappy, the world can do without your songs.”
– Tori Kudo, Japanese composer & musician
“I’m not about to let people keep mistreating me just so that THEY can be...”
– Sean Padilla, total sweetheart, awesome friend, and rock star extraordinaire
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On Kreayshawn and the Utility of Black Women →
Her appropriative swag is yet another reminder (not that we needed any more this month) of how little black women are valued in our society, even in genres we co-create. In a moment where cool is synonymous with swag, a particular manifestation of black masculinity, Kreayshawn’s dismissiveness and denigration of black women animate her success.
Moya B. of Crunk Feminist Collective does...
“Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore?...”
– Susan Sarandon 