oh man. so lately, i have been in the shittiest mood, right? but, now it's july and i am in the not shittiest mood. i am actually really happy and getting happier.
this is because of two three things ( Read more... )

i put my hair in twists yesterday and yeah, it sort of took me several hours and my mom gave me this look like 'oh my god you fail at being black i can't believe this is taking you so long your hair is fairly short for the love of christ,' but i just rolled my eyes and reminded her that my hair is fucking thick as hell and i've never done the ( Read more... )

dear hang ( Read more... )

today, i watched david lynch's lost highway. the first lynch film i saw was blue velvet, but i was much younger than i should have been when i watched it. i did not get it ( Read more... )

racism at the diva lounge.i don't really have anything profound to add to that except to say that i'm not really all that surprised ( Read more... )

happy birthday, little bunny!

your present is cool.

dear people who looooove saying everything is ghetto,
those bitches are so ghetto.
i hate the ghetto.
i hate ghetto people.
you look ghetto.
yo, yo, i am ghetto.
those clothes are wicked ghetto.
ew, you are wicked ghetto!
that's not sick, it's ghetto!

i am talking to you.

ghetto: the new n-wordi think about this a lot in boston. people say things ( Read more... )

today, i watched a video on the attica uprising. it was very moving.
prisons are tricky business. tricky, tricky.

eighteen
when i am at my knees and blowing you i am talking to god.
dear god,
do you love my sin-born body?
when you come in my mouth, i am taking holy sacrament: bread and wine macerated one over the other until there is naught but pulp.
your sex is generic and so are my prayers.

kinky roots, kinky love:
black hair

When my sister and I were young children, we would often play silly games with one another. We watched too much television, spent too much time modeling our play after the characters on television shows. It is funny now to look back and realize how much of our lives were spent around them. We were close to that ( Read more... )