March 2011
1 post
WatchNow..who ever put this together it not overly fond of Scorpios. But…well…theres a “lil” truth here. Just a little…lol. Check it out. I still and always will Love My Scorpios!!
February 2011
3 posts
WatchUm. WOW! LOl
Love is YOU :-)
(This blog was originally posted on Envision-This! My old blog, a year ago, But it’s SO good that I just had to bring it back! enjoy!!)
So today I wanted to write a blog about love. I wanted to write about that word that singer/songwriter Musiq Soulchild said is so often “used in vain”. See it’s about that time for Valentines day and on Valentines day alot of things...
Fuckery & Foolishness: Reflections on National...
“You think you know all of Yolo, but you Don’t/ One side of him is far too mean/ the watered down one/ the one you know/was made up CENTURIES ago/they made him sound all whack and corny/yes he’s blasted/AWFUL boring/ twisted fiction/ w strict omissions/ wanna meet the other one children?/ THEN ZIP IT./ LISTEN.”
Yesterday, I sat and reflected on National Black HIV...
January 2011
4 posts
The White Swan Must Die: Lessons I learned from...
***SPOLIER ALERT***Don’t read if you have not seen it; unless you just want to; which is fine too. :-)
In the film Natalie Portman’s character, Nina, who is the epitome of the fictive character “white swan” that she must play in a ballet ( kind, meek, concerned with being perfect and being liked) endures a series of psychic delusions where she envisions the “black...
December 2010
5 posts
"Provocation is a Powerless Concept"; On Raz B &...
(Photo source: TMZ)
Hours ago, twitter was abuzz with the heated exchange between Chris Brown and former B2k singer Raz B. The tirade began when Raz B tweeted:
“Im just sittin here Thinking how can n**gas like [Eric Benet] and [Chris Brown] disrespect women as Intelligent as Halle Berry, Rihanna.”
In Seconds, Chris brown retorted with: “Nigga you want attention! Grow up...
11:11 P.M Tonite: The World Premiere of...
I am SO SO SO EXCITED to announce that Tonite, at 11:11 P.M eastern time, I will premiere the poetry video for my poem “Concretely” from my Album “Purple Galaxy!!!
Concretely, is a an erotic poem about sexual longing beyond top/bottom or verse..its about seeking an erotic that is able to celebrate sensation as well as feeling.. lust as well as love.
The video features...
"Who You Are Has Made Me Possible"; An Open Letter...
I remember when I first came across “In The Life” and watched “Tongues Untied”. I cried both nights after. I cried because I had lived too long to never know you.
I was 23 then, struggling with my own sexuality and politics, working at AID Atlanta as an organizer, taking Women’s studies & African American studies courses at Georgia State University; unknowingly...
November 2010
3 posts
WatchI love this video because it illustrates the ridiculousness of normative masculinity. The typical “gay hunt” that happens in black culture stems from rigid and narrow stipulations that hetero men can never exhibit or express a range of silliness, emotion, or expression without having their attraction to women come into question. But what the video shows, is that many of the...
September 2010
3 posts
Support "To The Other Side of Dreaming!!"
Support “To The Other Side of Dreaming”
In a flash of bold courage and brave vision Mia Mingus and Stacey Milbern began a journey of possibility the likes of which the world… well at least we’d never seen. “..two queer disabled diasporic Korean women of color in the process moving from the South to the Bay to create home and community with each other”?! While surely such a phenomena...
August 2010
4 posts
Wrong is not my name
All my life I have been told my body was wrong.
I have been told that how i move through my body is wrong.
I have been told that the curves and crevices of my body are wrong.
I have been told that I how I express and animate my body is wrong.
Limp wrist: WRONG
Hands on Hips?: WRONG
Blemished Skin: WRONG
Less than a 12 inch dick? WRONG
Acne: WRONG
Fluidity in your walking?: WRONG
The...
Change is Love
We make mistakes. We learn. We forget. We repeat those patterns. We are held hostage by ideas..we free ourselves, only to find the roots of the ideologies remain..we fight..we cry..we pretend we have it all figured out..we use bravado..bling…clothes..revolutions..as ways to hide our scars…we think no-one can see the hurt huddled under our eyelids..we pretend our reality is...
Getting In Touch with The Power You Possess; Why...
“Dreams are illustrations..from the book your soul is writing about you.”-Marsha Norman
Every culture and family has some lore about dreams and their power. In my family my grandmother is an intuitive dreamer ( and many African American grandmothers are!), she dreams of fish swimming, and knows someone is pregnant, dreams of flowers, and knows someone is in love or planning to get...
We Have Failed you...An Open letter to the Spirit...
News Item: According to WPIX-TV, Pedro Jones, 20, of South Hampton has been charged with first-degree manslaughter for hitting Roy A. Jones so hard with his fists that the infant went into cardiac arrest and died at a local hospital. Police say Jones said he was “trying to make him act like a boy instead of a little girl.”
Dear Roy,
I am so sorry.
We collectively have failed you.
Roy,...
June 2010
17 posts
We Are All Chris Brown:The Difference Between...
I have really, really been troubled by the hoopla surrounding Chris Brown, much of which has been reignited by him crying on the BET awards this past week. I also have been really upset and hurt by both his violence against Rihanna and the reactions to his violence.
I have been most disturbed by the medium through which the collective has condemned Chris.
Not because I don’t believe he...
Are you ready to be healed? Daily Affirmation from...
“An unexpressed feeling is like a rubber band being stretched to its limit.The longer you hold on to the feeling , the more the tension grows. Eventually something has to give, or the rubber band is going to snap. When that happens someone or something is going to get hurt!
More often that not, the reason you do not express you true feelings is because you believe what you feel is wrong....
I Have Doubts..
The currents of emotion sway and shift, surface and swirl…and sometimes..sometimes..
Sometimes I have my doubts.
Sometimes I have moments where I wonder if it’s all any good. When I take the time to feel around, to look around, to sense around me..there’s so much pain masquerading as anger and bravado masquerading as fear and loneliness and self deprecation and...
Do Black Fathers Matter? A Guest Blog By Falon...
For the past 15 years of my life, Father’s Day was a day to be tolerated if not ignored. Unlike Mother’s Day where I actually thirst for the presence of my mother or someone else’s mother, I feel completely indifferent about Father’s Day. And, perhaps, my indifference has much to do with the fact that every day when I look in the mirror I see the face of my father, a man who spent most of my...
Fathers Day-Forgiveness is For Me!
It took me a long time to get there. And even once I had arrived, all to often I found myself shifting back… Back to the anger, back to the pain, The frustration, the disappointment, the neglect. It took me years to see them as something other than just my parents. It took me forever to even recognize that they had pain too; To see that they had wounds, trauma and hurt. That they too had...
I wrote this poem, satirically, about my...
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Joseph Campbell”
Help me Name my Blog!
Alright Folks, I need your help.
As you can see, I’ve decided to launch a new blog.This blog, more so than “Envision This” will be a tad more…edgy. Lol. It will be more composite of my spiritual and political writings, interspersed with art, fashion and much more. This new blog is the first of many more new projects I will be revealing over the course of the next few...
Growing up Gay in Augusta G.A
Growing up Gay in Augusta Ga:
“When all you wanted was to be Wanted.”
Every Time I hear this song it makes me think of what high school was like growing up gay or with same sex attraction in a rural southern town. It makes me remember what it was like growing up with a queer gender expression and how hard it was…
I spent my four years of high school, desperately trying to...
Read it.
Video coming soon!
My Thoughts on 2012
My Thoughts on 2012
Much speculation and fear surrounds the supposed “end of the world” expected to be heralded by the chronological year 2012. The theories surrounding this cataclysmic shift on the planet have produced everything from blockbuster movies to “disaster condos”; secret million dollar living arrangements built within the earth to house the wealthy in the face of a global crisis.
As...
May 2010
6 posts
25 Vintage Sexist ADS →
This is sooo Deep.
Cross Roads: Why I dont want to be called an...
Identities abound…and are forever in flux. Often the relinquishing of a specific identity or title speaks to an individuals shifting relationship to the constructs that he or she has attached to that identity. Thus, in my choice to no longer identify as an Activist, I am choosing to broaden my self beyond the constructs I have associated with this title, which will be illustrated in...