Acts of Faith In Love & Life

You were a bloated, overwrought spectacle where certain people of privilege got to be self-congratulatory but I can’t quit you (yet) Oscar! I didn’t have any cocktails during the broadcast this year so maybe it’s always been this dull. Far too many of the actresses failed to deliver in the fashion department this [...]

This is a scene from the 1995 film, “The American President” speaking about leadership. I can’t believe I’ve never seen this film before. President Shepard is a widower dating a woman who’s a lobbyist at a pivotal time during his reelection campaign. It is causing some discomfort amongst his staff . His refusal [...]

I found this video by author Marianne Williamson. You may or may not be immediately familiar with her name but one of her most famous quotes has been on the tip of the cultural lexicon for quite some time. From her book, A Return To Love:

Our deepest fear is not that we are [...]

March is Women’s History Month. As much as I like to look back at women who blazed trials I also want newer generations to continue that tradition in elevating the status of cis and trans women. Now I write about many topics one of which explores ways black women (and others for the [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted an OSF clip. There was a hiatus for the meme originators and then things fell off for a bit. So it’s nice to be back. This week’s motto is: “If I Could Sing I’d Want to Sound Like…”

As a cis woman who’s a soprano I’m always fascinated by [...]

Here we have Clair Huxtable the now-iconic image of upper-middle class African-American motherhood. Some rejected the idea that there were black women like Claire in real life and insisted she was a figment of someone’s imagination.

Here we have Mary Lee Johnston the egg donor of Precious, a character who is [...]

It seems that some people ACTUALLY think we’re living in a post-racial world and somehow we’re in remission from this disease of racism in this country.

WAKE UP!

Whether it’s inter-, intra-, gender, religious, nationality, orientation, class or ideology based Racism is defined as:

1.
a belief or doctrine that inherent [...]

It must be a slow news month or some arrestedly-developed, marginally successful, cultural-appropriating, insecure serial dater is trying to drum up a little controversy to be relevant.

John Mayer gave an interview in the March 2010 Playboy where he discussed his career, interpersonal sexual politics and his 2010 goals: …to get more [...]

The First Lady of South Carolina got mad and she isn’t gonna take it anymore! Rah rah sisterhood! Even I initially wrote about how pleased I was to see a political wife publicly take a stand against suffering in silence at her husband’s serial philandering. Now…I’m not so sure Mrs. Sanford deserves such [...]

As many of you know I’ve slowed down my daily blogging to focus on other areas of my life. Despite my desire to pull as many women out of the black community Matrix as possible self-care must come first. I also don’t want to sacrifice content quality for quantity so I write when [...]