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Ida Harris
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Ida Harris is savvy with standard English, but poetic with Black Vernacular. She will fuck up some Oxford commas. Her work is in DAME, Blavity, ELLE, Teen Vogue, USA Today, Black Enterprise. Holla.

I was so pissed at Tarana being whitewoman’d talked over by Milano on Today Show, yesterday. Like I said, elsewhere, it could have been that Tarana had a case of stage fright and/or was just shy, but I suspect that should could have had the intestinal fortitude of Angela Davis, Nikki Giovanni and Cardi B, combined and

Girl. Exactly this.

One of the things that I hate about “social media activism” is... once an exclusive project (a movement/awareness for a problem plaguing a marginalized group) starts “trending”, then that movement must bend and contort (as well as, erased certain aspects) in order to be exclusive. I heard about the #metoo hashtag 3-4

Nothing makes me happier than 32 inch weave. Yes, I rock my shit naturally but only a black woman can throw hair back in a exciting way. See .gifs below for proof.

Her motivation and subtleties are nothing less than those of her white male contemporaries.

While all of this news is disturbing, none of it hits close to home like the more obscure, resurfacing news of R&B musician R. Kelly and his alleged bizarre sexual practices and undying affinity for underage black girls. Apparently, the victimization of young black girls is not newsworthy enough for the mass

To be fair, this same argument can be made for any minority here in the USA. As a hispanic you can honestly just place latino in there and i honestly wouldnt blink

Bryan Singer, not Brett Ratner. Though Singer is the one who is rumored to be involved with child sex rings in Hollywood.

This is terrific, sobering article, so me know this insignificant in grand scheme, but Usual Suspects not Tarantino film. Movie was directed by Brett Ratner, who was also accused of sexual assault.

And yet you found a way to power through it.

This goes back to the Black males are the white people of black people argument. The main force driving this violent apathy towards Black women and girls is the undying need too many have to either protect & defend black males at all costs, and not hold them accountable. For anything.

Sites like Jezebel not fawning over trash like Wendy Williams is a good start; how the fuck anyone can claim to be feminist and give ink space to someone who goes out of their way to attack black rape victims is absolutely baffling. You’ll see commenters over there calling her their “problematic fave” all the time