January 2012
35 posts
“But there’s a deeper, even more critical element here , because it’s the same...”
– James McBride, screenwriter of Red Hook Summer and Miracle @ St. Anna on the politics of being a Black Story teller. #peaceto @afrolicious. #ownMYownShit.
#ProfessionalBlackStoryteller/Historian…I add historians because storytellers are historians…at least that’s what the feminists I rock with...
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via johnniesimpson)
In Weho
If you are in LA holla at your girl
Amazing look at the gay rights movement in the... →
times like this
I wish the machine from Eternal Sunshine was real
This is why I love this woman, love being...
For my Daughter
by Staceyann Chin on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 11:50am
I’ve already forgotten
the times you threatened/to fall
clots of red from my inadequate uterus
in the middle of the night
rushed me fretting to the hospital
praying to a god I’m not quite sure I ever believed in
for your survival/I was unwilling to take chances
just in case the conservative nuts were right...
why do our straight friends date wack guys?
or should I say, ignorant….. UGHH!
December 2011
46 posts
“Memories have to be our most painful blessing.”
– Kanye West (via ohshesquiteambitious)
Tangled — Cristina Dominguez →
A poem by me— read and tell me what you think!?!?!
I'll make it
even if I stay in pieces…
2012
getting over you— finally, and getting into a serious relationship with myself
Every time I see a pregnant woman I just get more and more excited to have a baby someday
WatchManquin-shenanigans with Joceyln