Brown Girl Swagger

Being a pussy makes you incapable, it makes you weak, it makes you a WOMAN.

Hello everyone,

I have to tell you something. I tried. I tried really, really hard. I tried really hard for good and bad reasons. I tried with optimism. I tried because I am Black. I tried because I am working on getting to comfortable, useful, productive outside my own bubble, fabulosity. I tried to relate to […]

I happily live in a hood that is about 80% Latin. I value the weird juxtapositions that present themselves in my community. The backdrop of bodegas, chuletas with the dollar store Bamboo earrings, the old man and his son who blare bachata while beating their congas. Watching my little daughter wind her hips to the […]

Leave it to BET to rework an MTV show. Pass the originality please…..I have never brought myself to exchange an irreplaceable hour of my time for The Hills or any of that other melodramatic pale-faced malarkey ( I’ve read about it in passing though), so in seeing all of the promotion for Harlem Heights, Black […]

Monday, March 2nd, NuNu and I went to the NYC BET Premiere of Harlem Heights at the Apollo. I will leave the review up to NuNu but I was impressed by Ambi’s new branding strategy and the Goody Bag that was put together, which consisted of products and coupons from locally owned (many Black owned) […]

So way back when on my now defunct personal blog I touched upon this subject once before and not so coincidentally, it also included the same suspects.
I consider myself a pretty conscious, righteous person. I mean like any person I have my conundrums and contradictions but when it comes to music I liken it to […]

So I am here reading the New York Times last Monday and I come across an article about Dominican women and self induced abortions. I’m sure that most colored folks have heard somewhere along the grapevine that there are (sketchy and potentially dangerous) ways to abort a pregnancy. I even remember reading about it in […]

I am doing Savion Glover moves into 2009….Sooooooooooo, with literally hours left until the new year I find myself a big ol’ bag of mixed emotions. Definitely looking forward to the natural change and newness that comes with the January 1 date. Feeling a little older and wiser, excited to […]

and people like me.

I just finished watching the debates and I have to be honest, presidential debates annoy the fuck out of me. Depending on the facilitator and the questions, often time candidates are given too much wiggle room to give sound bytes and ambiguous answers. Thank God this was the last one because the […]

I am pretty hard on the disposable rounds of “singers” that seem to pop up out of nowhere. They all seem to be the new somebody (what happened to just celebrating the old somebody?) so when I started to hear about this other bluesy brit, I was all ready to hear another over hyped, just […]