BGMPh.D: Dat Diss

smart is sexy

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How do you figure out what an emancipated sexuality looks like when society at large assumes you're hypersexual?

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6.9 Questions with Dr Mireille Miller Young

Dr. Mireille Miller Young answers 6.9 questions for Kelly Shibari at the 2013 Feminist Porn Awards for HotMoviesForHer.com

Miller-Young on what makes black feminist porn. “Black women using sexuality towards their interests, shows them to be agents in their sexuality.”

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Why the hot black bodies on ‘Insecure’ are more revolutionary than you think

We have to talk about the sex on Insecure. The hit HBO comedy from creator and star Issa Rae has a lot to say about it — specifically, the sex between black peo…

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Issa Rae: Black Womens' Bodies, Sexuality Shouldn't Be Policed

Thank you, Issa.

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How Insecure and Chewing Gum Represent a New Kind of Sexual Revolution for Black Women

Radically different in tone, two recent comedies reconsider the sex lives of Black women with brilliant dynamism.

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My gender is Black

Blackness ruptures the laws of gender just like the laws of the state seem intent on rupturing Black life.

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Trials & Traumas: Injustice & Brutality in America Dr Brittney Cooper Monica Dennis June 29 2017

Trials & Traumas: Injustice & Brutality in America on THE SPIN. PART 1: PHILANDO CASTILE & CHARLEENA LYLES - Police Brutality PART 2: BILL COSBY - on mistrials, missteps and rape culture Host: Esther

Emotional justice, violence towards black bodies, healing, and self-care.

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The Erotics Of Missy Elliott

On the 16th anniversary of ‘Miss E... So Addictive,’ a celebration of the rapper’s mission to keep sex weird

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Feminists of the Black Panther Party, with Lynn C. French and Salamishah Tillet

From "No Revolution Without Us: Feminists of the Black Panther Party - Lynn C. French and Salamishah Tillet in Conversation" February 1, 2016 Urban Democracy...

On the BPP and activism in Chicago.

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outsider blackness

Outsider Blackness is something I’ve really only been able to ground in a sense of dissonance, a shorthand for the complexity of black queer subjectivity I still struggle to articulate. It’s a nod to the difficulty of wrestling...

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I've been trying to sit with how do you have a conversation about the structural impact of like, patriarchy and misogyny and state violence on black intimacy without falling into a respectability trap.

Dr. Brittney Cooper, “Between the Lines: The Crunk Feminist Collection” (video online @schomburgcenter)

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Between the Lines - from Between the Lines: The Crunk Feminist Collection

Between the Lines: The Crunk Feminist Collection by Schomburg Center on Livestream - Livestream.com

#gettingwoke #canons #identitypolitics

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A Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood

When I was in the third grade I wanted to be president. I can still remember the stricken look on my teacher’s face when I announced it in class. By the time I was in the fourth grade I had decided…

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Double-Shot of BAFTA Winner Michaela Coel: 'Chewing Gum' Now Streaming on Netflix; 'The Aliens' on Hulu

The full first seasons of both new British TV series are now available for USA audiences to stream.

British TV show that tackles sex, class, and religion.

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Calvin C Hernton, scholar, critic and poet, dies at age 69; photo (M)

“The book's central thesis is that modern race relations are rooted in hierarchies of sexual dominance forged in the slave era. Mr. Herndon argued that white men were puritanical in sexual matters and dealt with their sexual urges by ''elevating'' white women beyond the reach of base desire, turning instead to a marginalized population -- black women -- to meet their needs. To allay their subsequent guilt, these men valorized themselves by constructing the opposing stereotype of the black man as sexual predator, crazed with lust for white women, a stock character in American demonology that informs race relations to this day.”

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The Sexually Liberated Woman

The Sexually Liberated Woman podcast highlights, celebrates, and encourages the sexually liberated woman—not just the idea of her, but her true-blue erotic empowerment in the flesh. Hosted by sex wri