It’s your party… I’m not here for Suzanne Venker’s pro-MRM rhetoric… According to author and FoxNews.com contributor Suzanne Venker, the war on women’s rights is a thing of insignificance, because a subculture of men she’s come across have apparently been pissing and moaning about the evils of the Feminist movement, and how it’s prompting them [...]
When 59-year-old bus driver Artis Hughes decided to pull over the bus he was driving to engage 25-year-old female passenger Shi’dea N. Lane in a brawl, I’m sure he never anticipated a video of his actions, going viral via the bastion of social media’s dark underbelly, World Star Hip Hop… but go viral it did. [...]
In my own sick and twisted way I recently joked about New York City being safer if the NYPD were to expand it’s “stop and frisk” policy to include random white people in not-so-high crime areas. Of course if you’ve never lived in these communities. it’s hard to understand just how much of an aggravation [...]
Not that I plan on cheating on my wife, but the following serves as warning as to why making the decision to stray away from home might not be a good idea. Now in another life — say, the much younger and not-so-much older me with a lot to lose — let’s just say that a brotha [...]
Last week an experimental music video (which has since been yanked from the web, per Erykah’s management folk) featuring a collaborative effort from singer/performance artist extraordinaire, Erykah Badu and alternative rock band, The Flaming Lips for their project “Western Esotericism”… was released on the internet. The video, which featured Erykah’s sister Nayrok in all her [...]
Arielle Loren is a wonderful writer, culture critique and friend. She’s also the creator of cutting edge digital media that breaks the barrier of our current standards of acceptance when it comes to Blacks, sexuality and feminism. CORSET is the go-to magazine for all things sexuality. We embrace human curiosity. We honor sensuality. We celebrate sex. And [...]
Just a hair over a year ago, a 23-year-old Black transgender woman in Minnesota named CeCe McDonald was walking to store with four friends of her’s, also Black, late in the evening. CeCe and her friends walked past a bar, and there were three white people (one man, two women) on the patio. When the [...]
Looking through the current media available to the African American/Urban audience one could easily come to the conclusion that all Black women are heterosexual, church going, and desperate for marriage. On a recent article I addressed the impact of gender orientation, sexual identity and how it affected a person’s decision of whom they will and will [...]
Writing within the context of my own community; oftentimes a Black woman’s dating patterns–especially if that pattern is askew, like a Möbius strip– and disposition is attributed to her relationship with her father. We hear society wax poetic about a woman’s supposed Daddy Issues (clinical term: Electra complex); particularly if she’s prone to behavior that’s [...]
I gotta tell you: this racism stuff can be quite depressing. I mean, when you think about the everyday stress of just being a Black man trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents. Add to that the occasional side-eyes and “suspicious” looks from blue-haired purse-clutchers, and angry looks from white Anglo Saxon males which begs [...]
So, I think the internet exploded sometime over the last couple of days with the speculation that Chris Brown and Rihanna had reunited. Then for Rihanna’s birthday, she and Chris Brown exchanged tweets and released new music together. I spied with mine own eyes, the entire Gen-whatever-they’re-called running rampant on twitter, and the folks who [...]
Some time ago I joked about me not being able to wait for Django Unchained winning the Best Picture category at this year’s Oscar Awards, to finally be able to celebrate our post-racialness. Well, at last night’s Oscar ceremony, that didn’t happen. Ironically, the film did in fact win two awards. However, as the Hollywood’s [...]
I’ve never had a 16th birthday party, but I’m sure I would’ve loved to have two strippers there if my mom was so kind. Yep, beats a brand new car hands down. Yeah, White mothers rule, son; yes, they’re definitely more liberal. That said, isn’t it funny that while as parents we’re concerned about the [...]
We’ve seen this before, right? Okay, so it hasn’t happened more than once in American history; but, the novelty of having an African-American president hasn’t worn off. And why should it? Barack Obama’s most significant political success to date, came as a consequence of successful branding. Yes, it took more than a few eloquent speeches [...]
I love hip hop. Loving something doesn’t make it free from legitimate criticism; there is a history of certain rap/hip-hop artists maintaining a certain attitude toward women and in discussing this in my personal conversations, I’m often brought back to a chicken-egg conversation. Do artists have a responsibility to restrict their message because some of [...]
So Jesse Jackson Jr . and his Wife Sandi a former alderman and at times his campaign treasurer and manager are planning to plead guilty to federal charges being filed against them in relationship to misuse of campaign funds. There are additional charges of filing false tax returns that have to be answered as well for [...]
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