Am I a (Proud) Southerner?
Am I a “Southerner?” Yesterday’s Talk of the Nation made me want to say, “Yes!” I was in the car with my mom when the segment, “What Does It Mean to Be a Southerner?” aired, and nearly every time someone called in, they said something I had either just said to my mom or that [...]
Sexy, Feminine, Sensual, Tough: Beyonce’s Perfect Blend
When I saw the tweets below last night from Dr. Kaila Story, an assistant professor at the University of Louisville and the Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality Studies there, I had to agree. And then I had to figure out why. The sensual, sexy feminine part was obvious: It’s in [...]
Breaking Bread Barriers with ‘Soul Food Junkies’
As a child, my weekend breakfast menu was consistent: Aunt Jemimah buttermilk pancakes—with whole milk and margarine in the batter, and fried in more margarine—on Saturday; bacon and/or sausage patties, two buttermilk biscuits, and scrambled eggs with whole milk and lots of salt in the mix on Sunday. These days, if I eat pancakes at [...]
GRITS Living in Red
I’ve been trying to compose something about the election for the past two weeks, but I haven’t had much to add to what’s already been said. After weeks of ads, debates, growing nastiness and $6 BILLION spent, the GOP still has the House, Democrats still rule the Senate and Barack Obama is still President of [...]
Called to Love in Election 2012
“to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.” –bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman For this last Faith and Feminism Friday post before the 2012 election, I want to point you to a conversation with bell [...]
It’s in the GRITS
The full name of this blog is Redbone Afropuff & Black GRITS. I generally ignore the part after “and” because intellectual property law is complicated, and I don’t want to get sued, but writing a memoir has been making me think constantly about how being a Black Girl(s) Raised In The South is part of [...]
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