The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
Abbey Lincoln
June 20th, 2013
June 12th, 2013
I don’t see feminism and romanticism as contradictory. That’s why I wanted to embolden the female romantic in Love Dog. […] Women are supposed to be the ones on the balcony, not the ones down below professing their love. We don’t think the female romantic is romantic. We think she is a predator. We think she is desperate, unstable—Fatal Attraction, the cougar, the spinster, the troublemaker. But deep emotion in this age is a radical act.
Excerpt from interview with Masha Tupitsyn in Bitch Magazine
May 29th, 2013
In the on-going spirit of ‘feeling beautiful’ loving ourselves and our bodies (whatever they look like) I thought I’d share one of my all-time Erykah Badu tracks…Enjoy! aMiNa ❤
This is how I look without makeup
And with no bra my ninny’s sag down low
My hair ain’t never hung down to my shoulders
And it might not grow
Ya’ never know
But I’m clever when I bust a rhyme
I’m cleva always on ya’ mind
She’s cleva and I really wanna grow
But why come you’re the last to know?
I got a little pot in my belly
So now a days my figure ain’t so fly
My dress ain’t cost nothin’ but seven dollars
But I made it fly
And I’ll tell ya why
But I’m clever when I bust a rhyme
I’m cleva always on ya’ mind
She’s cleva and I really wanna grow
But why come I’m the last to know?Said that I’m alright with me….
“When Amina asked me to write a few words on how being a mother made feel beautiful, I didn’t realize it would be so hard to write it in words. Least not because the only time I have to write this is in-between hourly feeds, in my day old PJs, unkempt hair and skin breaking out in hormonal induced spots. Beauty was not a word I was associating with the experience though it is actually the most apt.
It is the corset binding of my stomach to return to its pre-natal shape from carrying 6lbs and 4oz of human flesh. It is in the workings of my breasts to make milk and pulsate in reciprocal ache when my baby cries for a feed. It is the twilight feed, when I think I have no strength at all to open an eye-lid let alone feed, change, cuddle and commune with my little girl. It is the quiet moment I get to watch her when I put her down to sleep: milk satiated, clean nappy, content and happy. The beauty is how little it is she really asks for and how big in return the reward of complete and utter pure Love she gives me. The beauty is the whole experience – the good and bad moments because I see and feel amazing being a woman, and being able to be a mother.” ~ Lola (Nigeria/UK)
I #FeelBeautiful When…
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Photo Credit: amina.olayiwola (2013)
May 23rd, 2013
I #FeelBeautiful When…
*I feel beautiful when butt a”@s naked — being bare with all that creator gave me, if I can be nude underneath the mighty sun or moon or wrestle with sea as it gently holds me…then that’s even more of an ultimate goddess moment for me!*
~ Pia Tuulia Cabble (London)
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*I feel beautiful when I feel my body engage in the things i love doing like dancing & working out…and i feel beautiful when i look at my unclothed body!* ~ Osazeme (Nigeria)
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May 22nd, 2013
*(this is quite difficult but) i feel beautiful when I have my colourful headwraps on…or when i pick my afro all huge…for some reason its all about my hair …
i also feel sheepishly beautiful when i catch my love staring at me with a deep sorta passionate look…* ~ Priscilla (Zimbabwe)
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May 21st, 2013
Hidden in the Open: A Photographic Essay of Afro American Male Couples
This is soo good! Trent Kelley has compiled over 100 images revealing a long legacy of Black male couples. These are some of my faves. Check out his flickr page for more amazing images.
(via mixedcreation)
May 20th, 2013
Love on the streets of Amman, Jordan. Thanks to our sisters for sharing!
