Brown Sugar

Dr. Mireille Miller-Young's race, porn, & sex image collection

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Black Film Archive  is a living register of Black films  

Black Film Archive celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. We are an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1915 to 1979 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context.  

This awesome project is run and was created by Maya S. Cade

“For the past year, I’ve spent most of my time pondering one question: What does it mean to make Black film history accessible? Today, I’m proud to launch Black Film Archive, an evolving project that serves as my current response to this expansive question.“

Check it out  blackfilmarchive.com

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Josephine Baker as Alwina || The Princess of Tam Tam || 1935  dir. by Edmond T. Gréville 

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Hi! I’m stoked to present my thesis comic, If This Be Sin, based on the life of Gladys Bentley. It’s for sale on Gumroad! You can download the 16 page full-color PDF for $2.

Gladys Bentley, was a blues singer, piano player, and drag king who performed bawdy tunes in Harlem nightclubs throughout the 1920s and ’30s. Despite the social obstacles she faced as a black, openly queer woman, her outrageous and energetic act became a mainstay of the Harlem cabaret. In 1952, under the oppressive social conditions of the McCarthy era, Bentley publicly renounced her previous identity and claimed to have found happiness as a feminine housewife.

Gumroad is super simple to use, you just have to enter your credit card number and you’ll be sent a direct download, plus Gumroad will email you a link to re-download it if you ever lose track of the file.

FOR EVERY 100 NOTES, I’LL GIVE AWAY A DIGITAL COMIC TO A RANDOM TUMBLR USER so please share if you can! (Within each 100 notes, only people who reblog are eligible for a free copy.)

Thank you and I hope you enjoy the comic!

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The “Ebony Venus” and the “Bronze Apollo" - Josephine Baker and the Russian-born French ballet legend, Serge Lifar, on the Lido beach in Venice, 1930s. Ms. Baker talked about this day in “Josephine,“ the biography she wrote with her former husband, Jo Bouillon, which was published in 1976, one year after her death.  “We had had a wonderful time together on the beach in Venice during my Italian tour. I loved to hear Serge speak. He was more entertaining than all the pigeons in St. Mark’s Square. I’d like to have been Picasso in order to sketch him… Actually, he knew Picasso, as well as those who had made me the “ebony Venus” and named him the “bronze Apollo.” Paris had welcomed him from the East two years before I arrived from the West. There on the sun-drenched sand, intoxicated with the sheer joy of motion, we danced. What a curious pas de deux – the star dancer of the Paris Opera and a colored entertainer swaying together in bathing suits on the Lido beach.” Photo: Hotel des Ventes, Geneve.

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Scenes from the The Hypnotist, 1930s. Housed at The Kinsey and in some private collections. I write about this film and another that the same black actress performs in, Golden Showers, in the Depression Era. She is a phenomenal performer and in each the director pays close attention to her expressive face rather than the rather dowdy white actresses in the films.

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Have U ever faked an orgasm during a scene with a Guy?

yes. There are a lot of times that I am having fun during a scene but I can’t bring myself to orgasm in the allotted time. But mostly a lot of times my orgasm is considered secondary. It’s all about the guy cumming and there have been times when I came in a scene and it was almost considered distracting. That is why I love feminist porn in contrast. Everyone’s orgasm is important. 

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Yay!

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Whoever said blacks aren’t good at pinup…can kiss my Hershey’s chocolate ass.

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The most disrespected person in America, is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. // Malcolm X

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Examining the 1930s stag Darkie Rhythm in A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography

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My book, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography, is out from Duke University Press. Here's the link: https://www.dukeupress.edu/A-Taste-for-Brown-Sugar/ 

Here is the table of contents:

                                                                                                                             Preface. Confessions of a Black Feminist Academic Photographer  vii                 

Acknowledgments  viii                                           

Introduction. Brown Sugar: Theorizing Black Women's Sexual Labor in Photography  1                                           

1. Sepia Sex Scenes: Spectacles of Difference in Race Porn  23                                           

2. Sexy Soul Sisters: Black Women in the Golden Era  66                                          

 3. Black Chicks: Marketing Black Women in the Video Era  104                                           

4. Ho Theory: Black Female Sexuality at the Convergence of Hip Hop and Pornography  142                                           

5. (Black) Porn Star: Aspirations and Realities in Porn Work  180                                           

6. Behind the Scenes: Confronting Disempowerment and Creating Change in Black Women's Porn Work  226                                           

Epilogue. Behind the Camera: Black Women's Illicit Erotic Interventions  263                                           

Notes  283                                           

Bibliography  315                                           

Index  355                                                                                                        

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Whoever said blacks aren’t good at pinup…can kiss my Hershey’s chocolate ass.

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Everything But The Burden. When Non-Black Women Imitate Fetishistic Images of Black Women. MORE.

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Burlesque dancer Akynos, whom I met at the Desiree Alliance conference last year, is curating a review called THICK. Wish I was in NYC for this and her other work, including Dark.Nude.Storytellers! See http://www.wowcafe.org/ And her interview for SUPER.selected here: http://superselected.com/interviews-burlesque-performer-and-curator-akynos-talks-thick-race-in-burlesque-and-being-a-sex-positive-black-woman/

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Have U ever faked an orgasm during a scene with a Guy?

yes. There are a lot of times that I am having fun during a scene but I can’t bring myself to orgasm in the allotted time. But mostly a lot of times my orgasm is considered secondary. It’s all about the guy cumming and there have been times when I came in a scene and it was almost considered distracting. That is why I love feminist porn in contrast. Everyone’s orgasm is important. 

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"When Great Trees Fall" by Maya Angelou When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken. Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away. We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of dark, cold caves. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed. (Photo: Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrisonat James Baldwin’s funeral, December 1987)

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Bathroom portrait!