Black Contemporary Art

“To understand intersectionality requires critical thinking. Perhaps this is why I flinch when I hear people refer to themselves as “intersectional feminists” — it’s taking a term designed to complicate our understanding of society and flattening it into a label. Intersectionality is a framework for understanding how a variety of oppressions can intersect, and one that surrounds political activism. But the label is donned more as a mark of belonging than a rally to action.”

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Intersectionality is not a label, by Latoya Peterson

9:13 am • 10 April 2016 • 4,310 notes

Poet Taylor Steele captures the problem with appropriating Black slang.

In her poem “AAVE” (which stands for African-American Vernacular English) Taylor Steele explains why appropriation of Black slang is the worst.
African-American culture is being popularized on a daily basis and while Black people are judged and mistreated for using something they came up with ages ago, White people come off as cool and original when they use it.

Full video

#BlackLivesMatter

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9:12 am • 10 April 2016 • 64,161 notes

honeyflows:

“Young Zora Neale Hurston, outdoors. Leaning against a chain-linked fence, wearing a light dress with black sash at the waste. Smiling at camera.” c. 1919 - 1923

From the University of Florida Libraries’ Special Collections.

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9:09 am • 10 April 2016 • 825 notes