February 2012
67 posts
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
complex-brown asked: oh, and you def look like bruno mars now that someone has mentioned it.
Girls are Evil
Simple math, really.
complexbrown:
Black Radio →
Seriously, if you don’t do anything else with your day, stream Robert Glasper’s latest. It’s beyond heat. It’s the fucking Earth’s core—or something.
3 tags
Spilling Whitney's Tea Redux →
All aboard the self-hype train:
Articles like Tatchell’s exhibit the exact concerns I attempted to address in my response to the email I received after posting my my Whitney eulogy. It’s so clear that Tatchell’s investment is not in honoring Houston or her relationship with Crawford. Rather, Tatchell sees Houston’s death as an opportunity to forward his own agenda. Houston is not a friend, but...
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
iamdust asked: I feel like I have to ask a NBA question every week. Also, it's fun to talk basketball with you. But piggybacking on last week's convo, let's talk top five PG's. Also, will Thibs be the first coach in All-Star history to play D? *smile*
scuffalong asked: Bruno Mars??? Where? How?
2 tags
3 tags
2 tags
The Blackness of Benjy Compson? →
It’s long been taken for granted that Faulkner based his most famous “feebleminded” character, that of Benjy Compson in The Sound and the Fury (1929), on a white man in his 30s named Edwin Chandler. Chandler, whom Faulkner often watched as a boy bellowing and pacing behind the iron gate of his wealthy family’s antebellum home near the square, is believed to have had Down syndrome, and the...
3 tags
Spilling Whitney's Tea
After my Whitney post, I got an email from someone who read it. She was in the middle of a debate about whether or not to it was too soon to discuss Whitney Houston’s sexuality, namely rumors regarding a relationship with her former assistant, Robyn Crawford. (Crawford’s response to Houston’s death can be found here.) The reader wanted to know my opinion on the matter.
It took me...
2 tags
1 tag
3 tags
1 tag
House music all night long.
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
3 tags
3 tags
1 tag
During the summer of 2011, while on his “Little...
2 tags
1 tag
WatchChaka’s right. Fuck Clive Davis.
sweatbtwn:
Chaka Khan on Whitney Houston’s Death via tionam
2 tags
1 tag
iamdust asked: Any thoughts on the NBA All-Star Game starters and reserves?
4 tags
The Voice: Remembering Whitney Houston (1963 —... →
The Voice. When one is colloquially known as such, it becomes easy to forget that such sound emanates from inside a human being. The Voice. A disembodied moniker. So spectacularly general, simply an article and noun sans the dressing of more instructive, clarifying wording: “of reason” or “of God” or “of an angel.” The Voice. So intangible, yet generating a viewable response that cannot be...
“Even claiming a mixed-race identity requires enough skin privilege to compel the...”
– #thatawesomemomentwhen people reblog something you wrote! *cabbage patches*
Canon Fodder: ‘The Girl Who Fell From the Sky’ and the Problem of Mixed-Race Identity (via jeromeiznice)
Exactly. When you look Black, you don’t even get the option to define yourself. No matter where (or who) you and your...
4 tags
