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afrofuturism blog series

Together, we are the future: Going from here in N.K. Jemisin’s Walking Awake - Comments (0)
Their past is not our future: Afrofuturism and the colonizer’s gaze - Comments (0)
Your future is not your past: embodied nostalgia in Tananarive Due’s Like Daughter - Comments (0)
Your future, not ours: lessons on liberation from The Girl with All the Gifts - Comments (0)
To get to the future, you will need a map: the importance of vision and ideology in Parable of the Sower (and real life) - Comments (0)
The future will set you free: themes of regression and progression in Octavia Butler’s work - Comments (0)

archived

You won’t believe these 6 bullet points regarding my absence - Comments (0)
On EBONY.com: I just had an abortion - Comments (4)
Bye, Becky: My take on Black girl makeover shows - Comments (0)
Form and function: a brief introduction to nudity and disability in Western culture - Comments (0)
I came back for you - Comments (0)
The only skins you ever hit was the skins on your right hand - Comments (4)
This motion has got me wet like crazy: 90s slow jams - Comments (9)
The intersection of greatness and race, or why the hell is NBC such a dick to our own athletes? - Comments (4)
guts & glory - Comments (30)
In defense of fat - Comments (13)

black horror series

Half as much (pt. 6) - Comments (0)
Half as much (pt. 5) - Comments (0)
Half as much (pt. 4) - Comments (0)
Half as much (pt. 3) - Comments (0)
Half as much (pt. 2) - Comments (0)
Half as much (pt. 1) - Comments (0)

black liberation

The brownest eye - Comments (24)
Why I’m an angry Black woman - Comments (21)
We’re in effect: hip hop’s feminist role models - Comments (18)
Black like Barack - Comments (10)

black liberation

liberation and protection spell for incarcerated activists - Comments (0)
There’s no struggle in love, but there’s love in struggle - Comments (0)
From Bitch Magazine: Sister Soldiers - Comments (0)

bodies and fatness

Form and function: a brief introduction to nudity and disability in Western culture - Comments (0)
guts & glory - Comments (30)
In defense of fat - Comments (13)
When fat chicks give better head - Comments (48)
Basking in the afterglow - Comments (0)
On Bitch magazine: interview with “Fat Bitch!” creator Erica Watson - Comments (0)
I touch myself - Comments (1)
Subjectivity and self-image - Comments (0)
Behind closed doors - Comments (0)
Body love and fatness as choice - Comments (2)

bodies and fatness

Capitalism, patriarchy, and other reasons I’m fat: revisiting fatness as choice - Comments (1)
Towards reclaiming my birthright, part 1: awakening - Comments (0)
The revolution will not be plus-sized - Comments (9)

capitalism

The beauty industrial complex and you - Comments (0)
The fat tax - Comments (1)
That not-so-fresh feeling - Comments (37)
The class dynamics of DIY clothing - Comments (27)

capitalism

lessons from scorpio season - Comments (0)
I used to hate myself and now I hate society: post-graduation reflections and jobless rambling - Comments (0)
Capitalism, patriarchy, and other reasons I’m fat: revisiting fatness as choice - Comments (1)
The revolution will not be plus-sized - Comments (9)

disability

Form and function: a brief introduction to nudity and disability in Western culture - Comments (0)

disability

lessons from scorpio season - Comments (0)
I used to hate myself and now I hate society: post-graduation reflections and jobless rambling - Comments (0)
Towards reclaiming my birthright, part 2: divest from cure, control, & contain - Comments (0)
Some thoughts on craziness and meds - Comments (0)
Capitalism, patriarchy, and other reasons I’m fat: revisiting fatness as choice - Comments (1)
Flowchart to explain my recent existential depression - Comments (0)
Using the master’s tools to build a shack outside so you can be alone (aka navigating disability gatekeeping in the educational system) - Comments (0)
Letting go of linear time as a strategy for coexisting with anxiety and maybe transforming society - Comments (0)
More on being crazy and off meds (my journey away from psychiatric medicine, part 2) - Comments (0)
My journey away from psychiatric medication, part 1 - Comments (0)

events

Winter Solstice Concert and Fundraiser @ Solidarity House of the South - Comments (0)

feminism

On EBONY.com: I just had an abortion - Comments (4)
What I learned about fat and feminism in 24 posts or less - Comments (27)
The brownest eye - Comments (24)
Outlaw clothing: burqas, Islamophobia and women’s rights - Comments (13)
Read before you write: the rush to doubt Al Gore’s accuser - Comments (14)
Street harassment season begins! - Comments (29)
I’m waiting for the sequel - Comments (7)
Feminist does not mean “strong woman” - Comments (17)
That not-so-fresh feeling - Comments (37)
The perils of being a femme tech geek - Comments (18)

feminism

The shape of a memory: surviving sexual abuse outside the bounds of rationality - Comments (0)
Capitalism, patriarchy, and other reasons I’m fat: revisiting fatness as choice - Comments (1)

fiction

on whims of vengeful starlight - Comments (0)
Half as much (pt. 6) - Comments (0)
Half as much (pt. 5) - Comments (0)
Half as much (pt. 4) - Comments (0)
Half as much (pt. 3) - Comments (0)
Half as much (pt. 2) - Comments (0)
Half as much (pt. 1) - Comments (0)

ish I read this week-ish

ish I read this week-ish, vol. 2 (december 15, 2019) - Comments (0)
ish I read this week(ish), vol. 1 : november 30, 2019 - Comments (0)

magickal depressive realism

the decade of transformation (towards reclaiming my birthright finale) - Comments (0)
a solstice/new year intention-setting ritual - Comments (0)
I used to hate myself and now I hate society: post-graduation reflections and jobless rambling - Comments (0)
we should be rioting in the streets but instead i’m updating my resume: on business as usual at the end of the world - Comments (0)
Towards reclaiming my birthright, part 2: divest from cure, control, & contain - Comments (0)
The shape of a memory: surviving sexual abuse outside the bounds of rationality - Comments (0)
Towards reclaiming my birthright, part 1: awakening - Comments (0)
Considering ways of instantiating freedom in an unfree world - Comments (0)
Using the master’s tools to build a shack outside so you can be alone (aka navigating disability gatekeeping in the educational system) - Comments (0)
Letting go of linear time as a strategy for coexisting with anxiety and maybe transforming society - Comments (0)

media analysis

Bye, Becky: My take on Black girl makeover shows - Comments (0)
This motion has got me wet like crazy: 90s slow jams - Comments (9)
The intersection of greatness and race, or why the hell is NBC such a dick to our own athletes? - Comments (4)
The dichotomy of mismatch - Comments (0)
Louie, Louie - Comments (0)
Small screen, big women - Comments (0)
The coming race war - Comments (8)
Is white really the combination of all colors? - Comments (3)
Disaster 102: the movie marathon that destroyed the world (part 1) - Comments (0)
Read before you write: the rush to doubt Al Gore’s accuser - Comments (14)

media analysis

The shape of a memory: surviving sexual abuse outside the bounds of rationality - Comments (0)

music

This motion has got me wet like crazy: 90s slow jams - Comments (9)
Fabulous fat divas - Comments (0)
We’re in effect: hip hop’s feminist role models - Comments (18)

musings of a black femme

On EBONY.com: I just had an abortion - Comments (4)
Bye, Becky: My take on Black girl makeover shows - Comments (0)
guts & glory - Comments (30)
Work that hair, girl - Comments (11)
The brownest eye - Comments (24)
My life as a tragic mulatto - Comments (36)
Why I’m an angry Black woman - Comments (21)
The perils of being a femme tech geek - Comments (18)
When editing your wardrobe is a revolutionary act - Comments (30)
Black like Barack - Comments (10)

musings of a black femme

the decade of transformation (towards reclaiming my birthright finale) - Comments (0)
a solstice/new year intention-setting ritual - Comments (0)
lessons from scorpio season - Comments (0)
whatever - Comments (0)
I might be starting to hate myself again (not really, but fuck). - Comments (0)
I used to hate myself and now I hate society: post-graduation reflections and jobless rambling - Comments (0)
we should be rioting in the streets but instead i’m updating my resume: on business as usual at the end of the world - Comments (0)
End-of-winter updates and things - Comments (0)
The revolution will not be plus-sized - Comments (9)

my kind of crazy

Towards reclaiming my birthright, part 2: divest from cure, control, & contain - Comments (0)
Some thoughts on craziness and meds - Comments (0)
Towards reclaiming my birthright, part 1: awakening - Comments (0)
Flowchart to explain my recent existential depression - Comments (0)
Considering ways of instantiating freedom in an unfree world - Comments (0)
Using the master’s tools to build a shack outside so you can be alone (aka navigating disability gatekeeping in the educational system) - Comments (0)
Letting go of linear time as a strategy for coexisting with anxiety and maybe transforming society - Comments (0)
More on being crazy and off meds (my journey away from psychiatric medicine, part 2) - Comments (0)
Why I don’t use social media (that much) - Comments (0)
My journey away from psychiatric medication, part 1 - Comments (0)

nourishment

mars’ chamomile hibiscus friendship tea - Comments (0)
On queer liberation, God, and soaking your grains - Comments (0)

poetry

we should be rioting in the streets but instead i’m updating my resume: on business as usual at the end of the world - Comments (0)

politics

We don’t know and we don’t want to know - Comments (13)
When you have to say it: Tea Party racism (again) and you? - Comments (0)
Outlaw clothing: burqas, Islamophobia and women’s rights - Comments (13)
Is white really the combination of all colors? - Comments (3)
The one drop rule - Comments (22)
Read before you write: the rush to doubt Al Gore’s accuser - Comments (14)
Being Black in Washington state - Comments (54)
Why I’m an angry Black woman - Comments (21)
Fundamentally destructive - Comments (27)
Teaching Palestinians a lesson - Comments (8)

politics

liberation and protection spell for incarcerated activists - Comments (0)
“Change from within” is a myth: revolutionary movements and the incrementalist trap - Comments (0)
Holistic healthcare reform and the last days of the ACA - Comments (0)
At Bitch: What’s the Republican recruitment strategy? Racism, plain and simple - Comments (0)

published

On EBONY.com: I just had an abortion - Comments (4)
Bye, Becky: My take on Black girl makeover shows - Comments (0)
Form and function: a brief introduction to nudity and disability in Western culture - Comments (0)
In defense of fat - Comments (13)
Basking in the afterglow - Comments (0)
On Bitch magazine: interview with “Fat Bitch!” creator Erica Watson - Comments (0)
I touch myself - Comments (1)
Subjectivity and self-image - Comments (0)
Behind closed doors - Comments (0)
Body love and fatness as choice - Comments (2)

published

At Bitch: What’s the Republican recruitment strategy? Racism, plain and simple - Comments (0)
From Bitch Magazine: Sister Soldiers - Comments (0)

queerness

We might be able to tell soon. Well, some of us. - Comments (5)
We got it from you, Dad - Comments (9)
Flame on - Comments (0)
Is she or isn’t she? The requested outing of Elena Kagan - Comments (4)

queerness

On queer liberation, God, and soaking your grains - Comments (0)

racism & white supremacy

On EBONY.com: I just had an abortion - Comments (4)
Bye, Becky: My take on Black girl makeover shows - Comments (0)
The intersection of greatness and race, or why the hell is NBC such a dick to our own athletes? - Comments (4)
The brownest eye - Comments (24)
My life as a tragic mulatto - Comments (36)
The coming race war - Comments (8)
Look! Black people are totally racist too! - Comments (5)
When you have to say it: Tea Party racism (again) and you? - Comments (0)
Outlaw clothing: burqas, Islamophobia and women’s rights - Comments (13)
Is white really the combination of all colors? - Comments (3)

racism & white supremacy

lessons from scorpio season - Comments (0)
liberation and protection spell for incarcerated activists - Comments (0)
I used to hate myself and now I hate society: post-graduation reflections and jobless rambling - Comments (0)
Capitalism, patriarchy, and other reasons I’m fat: revisiting fatness as choice - Comments (1)
“Change from within” is a myth: revolutionary movements and the incrementalist trap - Comments (0)
At Bitch: What’s the Republican recruitment strategy? Racism, plain and simple - Comments (0)
There’s no struggle in love, but there’s love in struggle - Comments (0)
From Bitch Magazine: Sister Soldiers - Comments (0)

relationships

The only skins you ever hit was the skins on your right hand - Comments (4)
When fat chicks give better head - Comments (48)
If you’ve been caught slippin’… - Comments (10)
When keeping it real goes wrong: why settle? - Comments (22)
Why ‘you complete me’ is bullshit and how I learned to complete myself - Comments (0)
Is sexual fidelity the most important part of a relationship? Thoughts on non-monogamy - Comments (1)
No fat chicks: navigating the dating world as a fat girl - Comments (0)

religion and mysticism

Tuesday two-fer: in toothsome condoms and oily prayers we trust - Comments (10)
Fundamentally destructive - Comments (27)

science and technology

Why I don’t use social media (that much) - Comments (0)

sex

The only skins you ever hit was the skins on your right hand - Comments (4)
This motion has got me wet like crazy: 90s slow jams - Comments (9)
When fat chicks give better head - Comments (48)
Is sexual fidelity the most important part of a relationship? Thoughts on non-monogamy - Comments (1)
No fat chicks: navigating the dating world as a fat girl - Comments (0)
The case for sex-positivity - Comments (2)

sex and the fat girl

Basking in the afterglow - Comments (0)
On Bitch magazine: interview with “Fat Bitch!” creator Erica Watson - Comments (0)
I touch myself - Comments (1)
Subjectivity and self-image - Comments (0)
Behind closed doors - Comments (0)
Body love and fatness as choice - Comments (2)
Personal style as political resistance - Comments (0)
The beauty industrial complex and you - Comments (0)
The femme mystique - Comments (0)
She’s got a great personality - Comments (0)

size matters

It’s so hard to say goodbye - Comments (0)
The thing about average - Comments (0)
Breaking it down to basics - Comments (0)
Fabulous fat divas - Comments (0)
Taking up space - Comments (0)
Celebrity schadenfreude - Comments (0)
Fat acceptance and you - Comments (0)
Oh, the horror - Comments (0)
Running the hamster wheel - Comments (1)
The carrot and the stick - Comments (0)

talkin' greasy

I came back for you - Comments (0)
The only skins you ever hit was the skins on your right hand - Comments (4)
When you have to say it: Tea Party racism (again) and you? - Comments (0)
ALRIGHT EVERYBODY JUST CHILL FOR A MINUTE - Comments (9)
Tuesday two-fer: in toothsome condoms and oily prayers we trust - Comments (10)
Saturday special: white people talk like this - Comments (22)
Street harassment season begins! - Comments (29)
My fat, your issues - Comments (70)
I talk like this cause I can back it up - Comments (4)

talkin' greasy

whatever - Comments (0)
I might be starting to hate myself again (not really, but fuck). - Comments (0)
I used to hate myself and now I hate society: post-graduation reflections and jobless rambling - Comments (0)
Some thoughts on craziness and meds - Comments (0)
FYI: I don’t know ish. - Comments (0)

technology

The impermanence of light - Comments (4)
The perils of being a femme tech geek - Comments (18)

witchcraft and religion

a solstice/new year intention-setting ritual - Comments (0)
prosperity and abundance full moon spell - Comments (0)
mars’ chamomile hibiscus friendship tea - Comments (0)
liberation and protection spell for incarcerated activists - Comments (0)
On queer liberation, God, and soaking your grains - Comments (0)

writing on writing

You won’t believe these 6 bullet points regarding my absence - Comments (0)
What I learned about fat and feminism in 24 posts or less - Comments (27)
Killing the muse - Comments (38)
The impermanence of light - Comments (4)
Zombie blog post #1 - Comments (10)
New happenings - Comments (3)
My fat, your issues - Comments (70)
In defense of silicone - Comments (8)

writing on writing

I might be starting to hate myself again (not really, but fuck). - Comments (0)
I used to hate myself and now I hate society: post-graduation reflections and jobless rambling - Comments (0)
In case you didn’t notice: hidden characters on this site - Comments (0)
FYI: I don’t know ish. - Comments (0)
Why I don’t use social media (that much) - Comments (0)

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