Penderonisha

Whimsical Black girl Blogger | Model | Creative 💻 penderonisha.com 📧 [email protected]

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At my new school being a tourist 📷 (at North Carolina State University)

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The Tart and Tainted Flavor of Black Girlhood 

I wrote something rather poignant, melancholic, and important for myblackmatters.com based on my experience working with young children of color. Read here.

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Hair inspo (fro version)

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Cuz he's prolly lost 🙃 #aintyourbarbiedoll #gobuyone #notheretopleaseyou #begone

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Graduation 2016 📷: @meetzoeblack

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Little Black Girls Need 'Lemonade', Too - MyBlackMatters

By: Kristen N. Pender What a time to be both a Black girl and alive. Variations of this line have been tweeted over and over again since the evening of April 25th 2016 when Beyoncé dropped the game changing visual album, Lemonade. As we experience the lingering effects of the Lemonade apocalypse, powerful think pieces …

I wrote this, fam. Melancholic and important.

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Afeni Shakur, black power militant and mother of rapper 2pac has passed. RIP.

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“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power–not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.” -bell hooks 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋#umgrad #quotes #BlackGirlMagic #blackout #blackexcellence (at University of Miami)

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My Graduation Selfie Was an Act of Resistance 

   “Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power–not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”  -bell hooks My experience at the 2016 UMiami graduate commencement was a twisted kind of memorable. I spent the first moments in a state of euphoria. My classmates and I shared excitement over our success, so happy to see…

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“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”

(via suspend) This quote is one of my ultimate favorite quotes in the history of ever. (via bthnyy)

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From ‘Hippie to Scholar: How Grad School Changed My Life’ by @penderonisha

This past Thursday, on April 21st 2016, I reached a pivotal academic milestone: my masters-level graduate career came to a close in presenting my final capstone project, Reflecting the Community: Black Teens Vision for a Youth Program. I am so proud of this project because it means so much to me as a young Black woman. However, I won’t deny that it was not my intention to work with Black youth in the US, initially. Getting my masters derailed my path as a Feminist hippie with a serious case of wanderlust and instead placed me on a new path towards community action research and scholarship. Here is how it all went down…Read more here.

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I went awf a lil bit cuz it’s the weekend and I have time. Go see this Twitter thread if u feel like it: https://twitter.com/Penderonisha/status/726235558087917568 Have a ball. @penderonisha

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Badu's Snafu

I feel like the issue with Erykah Badu’s comments, or atleast my issue with Badu’s comments, was that she put on women’s shoulders the burden of not tempting men with their clothing while men were entirely vindicated and our predatory tendencies were justified with “boys will be boys” and that’s not right. It’s not about teaching girls/ women to cover up to avoid sexual assault, it’s about teaching boys/ men not to sexually assault. Despite Erykah tryna sprinkle her traditional spiritual “baduism” on it, it still came off as “niggas can’t help but wanna fuck so cover up girls so u won’t tempt them” and what kind of message is that to send? Men need to be taken to task. Whether butt naked or wearing a blanket, men don’t have any sexual rights to a woman’s body and that needs to be hammered into their heads from young. Less time should be spent on telling girls to layer up and more on teaching boys to control their urges. What resonates with me most about her comments, however, is how they reveal that even Badu, the queen of all things “woke” and personal idol of many natural-haired women isn’t impervious to the anti- woman respectability politics that are the unwritten law of the land; politics bent on the protection of men and justification of sexual violence against women.

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I’m glad this is circulating 😊 I’m looking to find the documentary (I think that’s the name in the upper left corner)

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This is so important because they feel as if people who do not “move with the times” of modernization are uncivilized and don’t know what they want when they actually just want to exist in peace. And they’ve been doing this ever since they could build a boat, ain’t nobody asked them to take people out of their countries. Nobody needed saving.

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The documentary was produced as part of an effort to put pressure on the Indian government to not forcibly assimilate the Jarawa - to let them live as they choose, without forced “modernization.” 

The website has more info on the project, a form you can fill out to sign their petition, and it’s also where you can pre-order a DVD of the documentary. I haven’t looked around for any other source.

Here’s the info vid the above clip was taken from:

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Took the title of this book way to seriously

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I’m screaming 😭😭😭😭

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GUYS 

HERE’S THE BEST PART

THIS IS THE FIRST PAGE OF THE BOOK

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NO. FUCKING. WAY

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IM CRYYYINGGGGGGG

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Whoa!

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😱😂

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