Archive for September, 2007
Tonight, It's All About the Ladies . . .
Sorry ’bout the late notice. But if you’re in the Western Massachusetts area today, consider your plans for this evening. If they’re not going to include the verbal stylings of MCs Tye Pheonix, Latia Larock and Apani B Fly, or the mixing of DJs Nomadik (formerly of WERS’ Hip Hop show on Tuesday nights) and [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2007 under Apani B Fly, DJ Megha, DJ Nomadik, Desiree, Latia Larock, MA, Massachusetts, NYC, Tye Pheonix, Western, all female, amherst, artist, concert, england, free stuff, gallery, greenfield, hip hop, ladies, music, myspace, new, pushkin, showcase, talent.
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Good Reads: Women from Brooklyn and Hell, Respectively
First, check out the revolutionary dreams of BrooklynSista: she’s got the truth like sojourner and deals deftly with race and politics in the news and popular culture, with a side of Nas’ “One Love” in case things are getting too serious. Then there’s the post-college wasteland. It’s a good thing that other people have lived [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2007 under Brooklyn, agencies, agency, application, culture, dante, degree, degreed, dreams, education, employment, experience, hell, human, inferno, liberal arts, meta, music, pop, popular, race, real, revolution, sojourner, temp, temporary, truth, uniform, video, work, world.
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Free the Jena 6, Symbolism, and Political Fashion
So, most importantly, for those of you who might not have heard about the Jena 6, here’s the story. In brief, it’s about a group of black kids who sat under a tree that was a “traditionally white” hangout spot in the mostly white town of Jena, Louisiana, last December. The next day, there were [...]
Posted: September 19th, 2007 under 6, Jena, Louisiana, assault, attorney, battery, black, court, crime, december, green, hate, injustice, jail, lynching, noose, race, segregation, supreme, symbolism, white.
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Jean Grae For President
This summer, I attended the Randall’s Island, New York rendition of Rock The Bells. It was raining and cold, and my umbrella was confiscated as I entered the eight hour festival because it could be potentially used as a weapon – (another victory for the enemies of freedom and justice) Needless to say, the shows [...]
Posted: September 10th, 2007 under Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Brooklyn, Byron Hurt, City, Grae, Ibrahim, New York, Rock The Bells, Tsidi, agency, agent, artist, attack of the attacking things, beats, blog, candidate, crisis, date, dating, dating show, disrespect, easter bunny, election, female, gender, hip hop, hotline, jean, man, mate, music, musician, object, objectification, president, presidential candidate, raccoon, randall's island, rape, rapper, rhymes, sad, scene, select, single, speed dating, stiletto, stripping, triggering, umbrella, underground, undergroundhiphop.com, vote, whip, wildlife.
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Fly Sex… and I was a Twentysomething Feminist
Another reason (here‘s the first) that I quit the biology major came from a lovely misogynist Professor of Biology. This man is not misguided; he is mistaken. He believes that women were born to be objectified. I’m not kidding. When I was a sophomore, I made some bank by TAing the introduction to evolutionary biology [...]
Posted: September 7th, 2007 under Misogyny, T&A, biology, class, counseling, counselor, evolutionary, female, flies, fly, gender, gene, genetics, kidney, little girl, male, mate, professor, rape, rape crisis counselor, reproduce, sex, sexist, sophomore, teaching assistant, women.
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