My beautiful and talented friend Khaleeqa, of Paparoxi.com, recently featured me in an amazing short documentary but now it’s her turn to be in the spot light. She was just featured by Black Enterprise about how she utilized her passion to get over unemployment. Check her out:
Happy Monday! Be inspired and enjoy the rest of your week.
This is the latest vid from The Real Jay Mills, who channeled all things warm weather and awesomeness for the song. I usually feel like this on Fridays, so here you go. Enjoy your weekend!
Dashira Harris, my friend and fellow journalist, is producing an informative documentary entitled Negro, which is about Latino identity. So far she has traveled to Colombia, Brazil and the Dominican Republic but she has a long road ahead of her in order to complete her journey exploring this complex subject matter. However, in the meantime check out part one where she interviews various people (shouts to Dee Vazquez at 12:11) about racism, colorism and the social consequences of colonialism on the Latino community. Dash drops some serious historical facts about the connection between the African slave trade and the development of Latin America.
I love her for this! I got chills because I had no idea about that African community in Colombia. I’ve blogged a couple of times about my own experiences with Latinos who have called me ugly or “mona” (monkey) based on their own ignorant self-hate and denial but I digress. If you like what you saw then help Dash keep this going. Support her at Go Fund Me and “Like” them on Facebook.
Ladies are doing it for themselves! Check out Likwuid’s new joint, ‘Likuidation Repirse.’ It’s a powerful song and video so brace yourselves…
I’ve always been a fan of her use of similes and metaphors (#NerdAlert). Seriously, Likwuid is one of the smartest women that I know and this video just proved that. For me this song and video represents how people try to silence those who are truly gifted, unique and actually speak their truth from a genuine place. Liquidation. She makes me inspired by hip-hop again. But anyway, I’m done geeking out.
In other Likwuid news…
Rocawear has been celebrating years of being one of the top fashion brands with their viral campaign, “That’s Rocawear,” which features various performance artists who are generating buzz on the streets and in the industry.
The following video is the third installment in the series, which features Brooklyn based rapper L.A. She has been featured on MTV, Fuse, DJBooth.net and more. Watch her flow over and murder several Jay-Z beats.
I’m super late posting this but this is an interesting movie about how women in the West have taken over Yoga. I never knew this but it used to be a predominately male activity. Watch:
Check out the Yoga Woman site here.
Nola Darling has released the video for their latest single, “STFU (Start The Riot), ” and they look and sound hot! The hip-hop afropop infused track was produced by Kwamé and the video was directed by BangPopLa. Check it out!
I mentioned earlier in my pole dance life that I was inspired by Roz aka The Diva because she represented for all the women out there who felt that they couldn’t get good at pole because they lacked strength, weren’t the right size, [insert more self deprecation here]…but clearly, all of the above is bullshit.
This documentary preview has been making rounds online. It’s about various women’s struggles with being dark skin. In case you haven’t seen it, watch:
Dark Girls: Preview from Bradinn French on Vimeo.
I am a dark skinned woman. I am not a victim. I am not unfortunate. I am not pretty for a dark skinned girl. I am not ugly because I am dark. I am brown and beautiful. I was made by my creator with love, and in the spirit of diversity. I pray for people who self-hate and I pray for those who are ignorant and inane enough to believe that complexion determines what is attractive.
I cringed when I watched the trailer for Dark Girls because of the self-loathing and the pain that these women are still dealing with as a result of lingering post-colonial psychology. No one should hate them selves that much, especially because of someone else. It’s not just in the Black community that we deal with this type of self-hate, brown people all over the world struggle with this problem⎯this ridiculous White worship that negates our creator’s plans. Even if you don’t believe in any type of God, the fact that every inhabitant of this Earth looks different should attest to the verity that this was part of the plan. There isn’t one standard of beauty. Logically, that concept should be simple but it’s not so uncomplicated because people insist on being stubbornly blind to the fact. Mankind has such a strong desire to label everything because of our personal insecurities, that even if we were all the same complexion and had the same type of hair we’d then most likely be divided by height, size, eye color and so on.
Dark Girls is culturally relevant to everyone because African people throughout the Diaspora (including Latinos), and Asians too, need to have these uncomfortable conversations and face the ugly truth so that we can hopefully correct the problem. However, I’m also tired of this rhetoric because we’ve been dealing with this issue for centuries but with no real progress. So…
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