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As I mentally prepare to watch and discuss ‪#‎GirlsRising‬ today-- a film that portrays the lives of nine young girls from around the world describing the challenges they face being denied an education-- I googled "chibok kidnapping nigeria."

On the night of April 14, 2014, hundreds of schoolgirls at the Chibok boarding school in northeastern Nigeria awoke to the sound of gunfire. They saw men in camouflage approaching and thought soldiers were coming to save them from a militant attack, ...

#chibok #bringbackourgirls #still missing #nigeria #GirlsRising‬

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My new essay explores how Beyonce’s feminist stance in pop culture helped frame my own feminist awakening:

"I am in my 30s and was emboldened by Beyonce’s feminist stance on that stage, and can’t help but believe that that image will be equally as powerful to young people who witness that moment, whose first engagement with feminism will be that moment. Maybe, just maybe, Beyonce will serve as the bridgebetween pop culture and feminists like bell and Barbara and Audre, maybe some young woman bobbing her head to ‘Blow’ or ‘Partition’ or ‘Flawless’ will do so while reading Ain’t I A Woman? or Homegirls or Sister Outsider.”

—FROM my new essay: My Feminist Awakening & the Influence of Beyonce’s Pop Culture Declaration

#feminism #beyonce #janet mock

A friend who just graduated and going through the "I can't find a job in my field" blues asked me for advice. I directed her to where I went for inspiration when I was going through the same thing. I still play this Will Smith video every time I doubt my purpose. Here is the full list I sent her.

#find your purpose #no plan b #will smith #inspiration #changed my life

Conversations by the pool

Met two women from Toronto by the pool. After we exchanged pleasantries for a bit, they asked about #Ferguson-- they've been watching news about it all week, they said. I told them about #EricGarner (they hadn't heard about him). They informed me someone else was killed by police in St Louie last night (need to fact check that). We bonded in our frustration and helplessness as the Costa Rican sun hit our face. They said they hoped this moment was our generations civil rights movement. I agreed, then got up to get a drink.

#ferguson #civil rights movement #overwhelmed

In this beautiful place wondering why it took me so long to come here. As with most things the answer is fear. Being that's it's Central America, more specifically the fear of being kidnapped or raped. A fear I can't help but wonder if my fellow nomad-male-friends think about. Hate that I take comfort in the fact, most rapes are committed by someone you know. Ok. Going to stop thinking about this while on vacation.

#costa rica #central america #nomadness #being a woman #no fear

How can you be in solidarity with Furguson? Support organizers on the ground: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sOX4RNO5CPQp4zMUvosoWPNu_fuencZNI1nmCcRuUag/mobilebasic?pli=1&viewopt=127

#furguson #mike brown #support #solidarity

Yes. This is how I feel.

I often don't know what to do with my anger. As a person that tries take control of, well, most things. The deep, uncontrollable, painful, bitter, gutting anger I often feel is getting harder and harder to mask. Especially when I don't have time to plan for it. It hits me on my walk home from work, or right before I turn on my iPad for late night TV via Netflix, or right before I get out the shower. Every time I stop and think. When I think about the lack of humanity I see reflected back at me, when I look into the eyes of the beat cops, standing at the corner by my house. When I run for the bus, get on, find my metro card, sit down, take that exasperated breath and hear "I can't breath" in my subconscious. When I'm trying to remember the first time I realized "protect and serve" did not apply to me, anyone that looks like me, or anyone that would come from me. When I thought "who wants to be a black mother" after I watched Fruitville station. Or the fact I can't list them ALL without google. Trying to control this... feeling inside me is only making it grow. I'm trying not to let this cancer invade my joy. I feel like I'm disappointing Mama Maya. If self care is an act of political warfare, then at this moment I'm losing, and I don't know how to change the tide. Will keep trying. Tomorrow is another day.

#poetry #my anger #enough is enough #black pain

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The spread of Ebola in West Africa so far

#ebola #stopebola14 #sierra leone #guinea #liberia #nigeria

What can Sierra Leoneans do to contain and stop the spread of Ebola in our country? Lets discuss tomr @ 3PM US EST/6PM #TwitterChat #SierraLeone #StopEbola14

#sierra leone #stopebola14 #twitter chat

More than 60 women and girls are reported to have escaped from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, security sources say. Read BBC article here.

#BOKO HARAM #Nigeria #bringbackourgirls

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How BEYONCÉ should have opened.

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#GrownWoman #EarthaKittRemix

#Eartha Kitt #Grown wom #beyonce #now playing #Holiday jams

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Was just talking to my roommate about the scene when talking about the importance of Lupita representing African hair braining in Vogue, a mainstream industry standard.

#devil wears prada #fashion #iconic movie scenes

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David: Now that Sasha is 13 she’s officially old enough to join Tumblr.

President Obama: So…she wasn’t before then?

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Ha!

I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.

-Maya Angelou

#Maya Angelou