the love brigade.

dope. want for my house. barka-art: One heart. Rotation of 3....

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:49:27 -0400

dope. want for my house.

barka-art:

One heart. Rotation of 3. A.b.c… 1.2.3 (Taken with Instagram)

oh hey, ana :) thugzmansion: ☼ thugzmansion presents the...

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:13:40 -0400

oh hey, ana :)

thugzmansion:

☼ thugzmansion presents the GODDESS SHIRT for Spring/Summer 2013 !
now available @ the thugz maison bigcartel shop ☀

god·dess [god-is]
1. a female god or deity who does it, does it, and does it well.
2. Audre&Gloria&Angela&bell.

A Thugzmaison Spring/Summer 2013 exclusive, screen printed by hand with love.

Ana María Agüero Jahannes (pictured) is the founder of Wild Seed Wellness, the first donation-based bodyworks service based in Oakland to offer exclusive support to queer people of color. She will do magic upon your bod, trust! Book an appointment today.

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#The Finding Aid: The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving...

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:43:21 -0400

#The Finding Aid: The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving...:

kameelahwrites:

You should definitely be here! A labor of love for the past 3 months. Co-curating this event has been a pleasure. Come out and support us at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on May 21st @ 6:30pm :)

thefindingaid:

The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.

The event’s organization is based on the idea of a finding aid. A finding aid is a document used in archives for accessibility and discovery. We will transform a finding aid from an archival inventory/guide into an artistic archival experience.

Our goal for this event is that people leave knowing what an archive and archivist is or can be, and that people feel empowered to begin their own archival/artistic practice or feel moved to engage with existing archives.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:30pm

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Langston Hughes Auditorium

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Joyce-LeeAnn is a writer, archivist and performance artist from Denver, Colorado based in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BA in Writing and Literature from Naropa University via Hampton University. She received a MILS with an Archives Certificate from Pratt Institute. She works as a professional project archivist. Joyce-LeeAnn’s writing explores the poetics of archival processing and investigates ways to tell stories through preserved documents. Subjects covered in her prose | poetry include: grief, healing processes, beautiful moments, writings on restroom walls and a fragment of black Denver history. Her experimental literary performances usually include a makeshift typewriter-drum-kit.

// joyceleeann.com

Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985) is a photo-based artist, writer, and educator from East Palo Alto, CA based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a Gallery/Studio Instructor at the Brooklyn Museum as well as a public school teacher working with court involved youth in East New York. Kameelah’s work enlists archival as well as archeological traditions to explore collective memory and her family narratives through found images from eBay and estate sells, material objects, and original photography. An object-based body of work, she interrogates the trinity of spatial trauma within Black communities — homelessness, incarceration, and forced migration and how this influences both collective memory and the way we reconstruct narratives from material fragments. Currently, she is an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Book Arts. In 2012, Kameelah was an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. She will have her first solo exhibit at Real Art Ways in July 2013 tentatively entitled The Imagined Archive. A former Fulbright Scholar to South Africa, Kameelah received her Master of Education from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts in Policy and Africana Studies from Pomona College.

// kameelahr.com

Marilyn Nance is an American visual artist known for her images of 20th century African American life—spirituality, music, art, and African retentions, She grew up through many movements—The Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, Black Arts, Anti War, Students Rights, the Women’s Movement, and the Anti-Apartheid Movement.

A two-time finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography, her photographs can be found in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and in the Library of Congress.

// marilynnance.com

Image © Albert Chong

Arianne Edmonds is a Los Angeles native, storyteller and archivist. Her historical collection spans from 1886-1950 and explores the uniqueness of early black Los Angeles, through the lens of genealogy. She received her Bachelors of Science in Communications, from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and started her career in educational media at Sesame Workshop. She currently works with the Taproot Foundation managing consultant relations and community partnerships.

// edmondsfamilyexploration.tumblr.com

Ladi’Sasha Jones is a is a collector and witness worker of oral history narratives with a special interest in documenting Black women’s stories and Black American family life. She approaches her documentation practice by working from the intersections of cultural equity and collective community memory.

Currently, Ladi’Sasha is working on the curation of a public forum to share her collection of oral history records via a digital sound art gallery — coming Summer 2013. Having earned her B.A. in African American Studies from Temple University in 2010 and a M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2012, she recently completed a Certificate in Oral History from Baylor University in April of 2013. She aims to move towards freelancing and sharing her documenting services with community and cultural arts organizations along with individual artists.

// ladijones.com

Shawn(ta) Smith is a lesbian separatist, writer, archivist and reference librarian. Her essays blend storytelling with documentation and archiving. Her work will appear in “Black Gay Genius Interview with Lisa C. Moore” in Black Gay Genius: Joseph Beam and In the Life (forthcoming). She is currently editing a new anthology Her Saturn Returns: Queer Women of Color Life Transitions, a compilation of narratives of queer women and color in their Saturn. Shawn is a collective member of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and the WOW Cafe Theater where she co-produces Rivers of Honey, a monthly Cabaret highlighting the art of women of color. Shawn is pursuing her MFA in Fiction at Queens College while working as a reference & instruction librarian at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the former Archive Coordinator for StoryCorps.

// hersaturnreturns.com // riversofhoney.com

Photo © Arianne Benford

Sonia Louise Davis (b. 1988, New York City) is an artist and photographer. Using a large format view camera, her work mines the public and private archive, exploring collective memory and family history through site-specific and community-based projects. Sonia is currently participating in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. An honors graduate of Wesleyan University, she holds a BA in African American Studies, with a concentration in Music and Visual Art.

// sonialouisedavis.com

Born in Las Vegas, Salome Asega is an Ethiopian visual artist and independent curator working in Brooklyn. She received her BA in Transnational Visual Art and Social Practice from the Gallatin School at NYU and is currently an MFA candidate in the Design and Technology program at Parsons The New School for Design. She is also a founding member of theSistah Friends Project.

// eyesearsmouth.com

i see some familiar faces on the panel! sounds like an amazing night. wish i could be there!

dreamcatz92: tuerta: lalobalocaart: D.I.Y & LOCALLY MADE...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:24:41 -0400

dreamcatz92:

tuerta:

lalobalocaart:

D.I.Y & LOCALLY MADE FOOD: What the hipsters din’t tell you

I got this patches from 1384 screenprinting at the last anarchist book fair in Los Angeles right after a horrible white fucking person yelled at a beautiful brown mama for selling chicken at the gathering. The horrible person, skin waste and excess population was so fucking violent towards the brown lady that her gorgeous chubby lil brown kid felt embarrassed and was telling her mama they should go home. This pisses me off A LOT, pero for reals whats up with the amnesia? Who the fuck are the people that create the most waste and use up the most resources in the world? Who da fuck is related to the people that own Monsanto and all that horrible shit? Who da FUCK are the people that colonized, rape and took over land and COLONIZE indigenous foods?GUESS! So yeah amnesia pisses me off.

Como si fueramos nosotrxs who made up the horrible meat industry, como se fueramos nosotrxs who own those fuking meat businesses. como si nosotrxs no supieramos lo que es comer real food. Fuk that shit! Our muxeres are the reason why this world still revolves, they are the ones that use plastic containers for pots, to pack lunch, to store their money, to keep their legumes….they are the ones that cross seeds from one country to another, LAS SEMILLAS NO TIENEN BARRERAS EUROPEAS. Our muxeres are the ones that make sure that the food is eaten to its last bite. Our muxeres are the ones that plant flowers and make homes and entire neighborhoods beautiful full with plants that attract colibris and birds and all that magical shit.

The lady selling the pupusas, tamales, tacos in the corner WITHOUT fucking permits, maybe without fucking papers are THE REAL FUCKING REVOLUTIONARIES, FUCKING RADICAL ASS BEEZHIES.

We are hella DIY, some of our people don’t even need dishes cause they wrap their food with leaves. Some of our people don’t even need to buy dipers cause they use those 100% cotton panales to re-use and re-use. Some of our mamas used reusable fucking pads before being an eco-feminist was “in”. Some of our people had almost ZERO negative effects on mother earth cause they lived up in las montanas y en el rancho. Some of our people eat meat in minimal quantities, and guess WHAT some of our people still kill their own food. Some of our people have never had cars pero have hella tight nice walking/running legs. GUESS WHAT ELSE! The colonial food system, that McShit, Wendy BS, Burger Caca ALL that white trash food that is killing our people and creating an epidemia of diabetes WAS NOT CREATED BY OUR PEOPLE. My people drink fucking REAL fruit juice with honey, bitch.

So yeah let’s eat local! Let’s pick fruits from the trees in our neighborhood, let’s support our local corner muxeres huslting, let’s TIP our muxeres. Let’s honor the REAL DIY queenz that make trash into magical useful things. Let’s honor our muxeres that use the little money they make in this patriarchal racist system to fill their children tummies with ancestral beans, corn, potatoes and all that beautiful foods that are truly BROWN and from this continent.

DECOLONIZE VEGAN, DECOLONIZE LOCALLY MADE FOODS, DECOLONIZE D.I.Y, DECOLONIZE EVERYTHING!

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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:06:06 -0400

this commentary, tho?...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:38:34 -0400

this commentary, tho? perfection.

nggaluvr:

itsloudinsidemyhead:

prettynaturally:

theblacknationalist:

virtuouslyvindicated:

fallingasleepwiththemoon:

Janelle Monae looks fab 😍

Jane is #PERCHED, honey! Face is BEAT to smithereens, and that hair is SITTING like Rosa on that bus! WERQUEEE!

YAS JANE!
SLAY.

So wtf is y’all talkin about lol

Re-blogging this simple for this comment “Hair is sitting like Rosa on that bus!” I am clearly going to be using that from now on LMAO!!!!

Yes that commentary

latoya ruby frazier. one of my absolute favorite artists....

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:55:47 -0400

latoya ruby frazier. one of my absolute favorite artists.

plus, she’s real easy on the eyes…

http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com/

she has a solo show at the BK museum through august. :)

harrietsgunmedia: Bumming Cigarettes is a short film about a...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:05:16 -0400

harrietsgunmedia:

Bumming Cigarettes is a short film about a brief and intimate meeting between a young Black lesbian woman who is in the process of taking an HIV test and a middle aged Black Gay HIV Positive man. Coming off of the devastation of a bad breakup with a girlfriend, Vee musters up the courage to go and take an HIV test to put her worst fears to rest. What she experiences during her trip to a local clinic is much more than she expects while sharing a cigarette with a stranger, Jimmy, during the 10 minutes that she awaits her test results.

Alia Hatch makes a strong debut in this short film, as a young Black lesbian woman looking to discover her status. This is a breakthrough performance for James Tolbert, a native Philadelphian and professional actor living with HIV for 21 years. Alia and James deliver a moving performance in this film that explores complex issues surrounding the HIV/AIDS epidemic including the loss of intimacy and stigma that persons living with HIV/AIDS may encounter, while also encouraging awareness around HIV/AIDS testing and the way we treat persons living with the disease.

STATUS: NOW SCREENING

harrietsgunmedia.com/bumming-cigarettes

love love sza.

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:13:47 -0400

love love sza.

this might be heaven.

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:01:39 -0500

this might be heaven.

missing malaysia. (c) keondra. 2012.

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:26:51 -0500

missing malaysia.

"Male privilege is “I have a boyfriend” being the only thing that can actually stop someone from..."

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:21:03 -0500

“Male privilege is “I have a boyfriend” being the only thing that can actually stop someone from hitting on you because they respect another male-bodied person more than they respect your rejection/lack of interest.”

- The Sociological Cinema (via trimichaelceratops)

(c) jessica noel. via mambu badu

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:19:59 -0500

via mambu badu

manifestfreedom: meanwhile, @keondra and i will just stay busy...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:05:27 -0500

manifestfreedom:

meanwhile, @keondra and i will just stay busy being adorable.

"Imma be there in 5 minutes"

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:18:34 -0500

“Imma be there in 5 minutes”

- Classic African American tall tale (via squirtelle)

"It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:18:12 -0500

“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

- Augustus Waters (via loveyourchaos)

dope tunes. so14below: sza x once upon a high still in a sza...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:56:38 -0500

dope tunes.

so14below:

sza x once upon a high

still in a sza haze.

my love. divacity: DIVA.CITY. - Alicia is a Diva fierce enough...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:43:28 -0500

my love.

divacity:

DIVA.CITY. - Alicia is a Diva fierce enough to face strong winds and near-freezing temperatures with flyness and grace! She stays warm with many layers of gold and thrift store swag. Her sagely wisdom about style and the fashion industry applies to everybody: “put on what feels good and what makes me feel good.” Check out what she has to say here.

wow.

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:36:54 -0500

wow.

poster template used by sojourner truth for her lectures around...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:07:02 -0500

poster template used by sojourner truth for her lectures around the country.