It’s spring. As temperatures continue to rise, I’m impelled to think about the crude comments women are assailed by, as they walk down the street in the summer finery they waited all season to wear. Street harassment is a daily occurrence experienced by women all over the world who navigate open, shared spaces with men. According to Stop Street [...]
Last week, the #BlackPrivilege hash-tag gained momentum on Twitter, reportedly created as a response to the discovery of a (neglected?) tumblr blog and, perhaps, just being plain tired of having to ward off cries of “reverse-racism” whenever black people speak out loud about the lived experiences and daily microaggressions many of us have to navigate .
Essence Atkins Blasts Tyler Perry Over Kim Kardashian Casting Tyler Perry’s work is a lot of things, and polarizing is chief among them. Some people hail his movies as cinematic gold, because he’s a poor (black) boy made good and who managed to position himself as a major power-player and entity unto himself in the [...]
I’ve wanted to write this post for a while. I didn’t know quite how to go about broaching it, and anyone who follows me on my personal Facebook account or Twitter, knows that I’ve made my feelings clear about how freelancers—writers, artists, musicians, or other discipline—are treated by those seeking their services. Since I’m navigating life as a struggling writer, [...]
If you haven’t been unplugged for the past two weeks, you’ve probably read about, or have at least had a fleeting interest in, Dongle-gate and the firing (heard ‘round the internet) of developer evangelist Adria Richards for, what basically amounts to, reporting sexism/sexual harassment at a tech conference she attended. Brief overview: During a keynote [...]
In today’s cult of personality and with the way technology and information has evolved, public dramas play out across social media platforms as quickly and as messily as anything viewed on reality TV, and this week most of us learned that the tech world is no exception when it comes to rules of engaging in [...]
Recently, while browsing Netflix’s ‘Instant Watch’ selection, I came across a “semi-documentary”, written and directed by English filmmaker Carol Morley, called Dreams of a Life. The haunting and speculative 2011 film attempts to piece together the life of 38-year old Londoner, Joyce Carol Vincent. A beautiful aspiring singer and seemingly gregarious woman of Indo-Caribbean and Afro-Caribbean extraction, [...]
Race. The word alone prompts many to break out in a cold sweat, grit their teeth, immediately grow defensive or quickly change the subject. And while some people like to espouse the tenets of color-blindness and post-racialism (words I’ve personally grown to despise), I tend to steer clear of anyone who refuses to see my humanity and who brushes [...]
Unless you’re the Prince of Brunei or Beyonce, and have the luxury of boasting about not having passengers on your private plane, most of us regular folks have had to experience the pains of flying commercial. The annoyances range from having to contend with flights cancelled at the last minute; cringing while a TSA officer orders you [...]
This past Wednesday night, I was invited to weigh-in on Madness & Reality Radio’s hot-button topic: ‘The Voyeuristic Fetish of Angry Black Women’ in hopes of contributing to a nuanced conversation about the ‘Angry Black Woman’ trope; but alas, as most conversations about Black women do, the discourse veered off course. Additionally, due to technical [...]
I’m an avid watcher of the Investigation Discovery channel. Chock-full of sex, murder, money, and whodunit hour-long documentaries, I’m particularly intrigued by the series featuring scorned wives, lovers, and husbands who find the myriad of ways to plan and execute the demise of their spouse or significant other. In many of the cases, the use [...]
I don’t see too many of “us” in the black blogosphere writing about the Kaitlyn Hunt story, and I think it’s unfortunate. Why? Because with a few exceptions, in many ways it mirrors the Genarlow Wilson case. What’s ironic, is that I don’t see advocates for victims of rape, like famed word-hustler and blogger, Gina [...]
Editor’s Note: The following post was written by Hip Hop scholar, activist, and journalist Davey D. It was was originally posted at Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner, and it’s an honor to have it posted with permission here at TIOMAR. Michelle Obama gave a speech over the weekend at Bowie State saying that too many Black kids [...]
So, a security officer at Walmart falsely suspected a white father of kidnapping his “mixed” children; and, some of my friends are mad about it. One of my friends sent me the following story and asked that I share my thoughts. In their opinion, the following is yet another example of racial profiling gone bad. [...]
“Hotter than a middle eastern climate, find it 20 mataran dutty whine it, while it, Nicki on a pit while I sign it, how these niggas so one-track minded but really really I don’t give a F-U-C-K” – NICKI MINAJ, “MONSTER” On May 19th, 2013, Nicki Minaj performed on stage at the 2013 Billboard awards. This [...]
The Genarlow Wilson case is burning up the internet again… This case gained notoriety when it hit the headlines back around 2007. The case and subsequent conviction of Genarlow Wilson was based on a flawed statue that made it a felony for a minor to engage in oral sex with another minor – while if [...]
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