Redbone Afropuff and Black GRITS http://www.redboneafropuff.com/ faith, feminism, family--from the perspective of a Black Girl Raised In The South Sun, 01 Oct 2017 21:41:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Redbone Afropuff is Moving – Thank You and Farewell http://www.redboneafropuff.com/2017/10/01/redbone-afropuff-moving-thank-farewell/ http://www.redboneafropuff.com/2017/10/01/redbone-afropuff-moving-thank-farewell/#comments Sun, 01 Oct 2017 21:35:31 +0000 http://www.redboneafropuff.com/?p=2605

Dear Readers, I’ve been blogging at Redbone Afropuff & Black GRITS since 2009. It’s been a great run, but as...

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In a recent interview on All Things Considered, Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on...

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Like many people, I spent most of Saturday at my computer and on my phone reading and re-tweeting updates about...

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Legal scholar and author Geoffrey Stone delivered the keynote address at the 2017 Woodhull Foundation Sexual Freedom Summit. Entitled, “Sex...

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I attended a conference session called, “Defusing the Power of Toxic Religion for Sexual Advocacy,” because I’m writing a memoir...

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  At a table on the quiet side of the room, five black women are talking. Sex. Helping a friend...

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Author’s Note: If you’re a steady reader of this blog, you know I worry about writing in obscurity forever. It’s...

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My thesis is submitted(!) and now … there’s summer clothing I can’t fit into. Most weeks, I spend more hours...

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This was first posted to Instagram on April 27, 2017. Submitted my thesis today. Digitally. It felt incredibly anticlimactic. I...

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The sentence is inflicted by white supremacy and its brother patriarchy, the same forces trapping so many people in prisons...

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