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While I am hesitant to mention anything coming out on BET (and am pretty confident it’ll get effed up by a network that seems to celebrate the lowest common denominator), Monday marks the premiere of My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip Hop. Featuring MC Lyte, who always does an insightful interview; [...]
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- Tags: hip-hop, women
Via compas: All mothers have the potential to be revolutionary. Some mothers stand on the shoreline, are born and reborn here, inside the flux of time and space, overcoming the traumatic repetition of oppression. Our very existence is disobedience to the powers that be. At times, in moments, we as mothers choose to stand in [...]
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- Tags: women
An old saying goes that, until lions are the storytellers, hunters will always write history to favor themselves. Countering such understandings is a fundamental aspiration to ideas like popular education as advocated by Paulo Freire. When people are educated about the world around them, the belief is that they are more empowered individuals capable of [...]
Punk, hardcore and alternative rock music scenes have been for years the almost exclusive realm of teenagers and youth in their 20s. Not only have they been areas of creative expression, but such subcultures have given young people a place to challenge beauty standards, political boundaries and cultural norms. In the book Sells Like Teen [...]
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- Tags: gender, women
An old friend and comrade, Hitaji Aziz, once told me men of color have some of the biggest struggles to confront. Stereotyped and feared, men of color at once must wrestle with their own insecurities, self-perceptions and the necessity to feel human in a world that often denies men of color the right to feel [...]
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- Tags: gender, people of color, white privilege