Erykah Badu is one of the voices of my hazy childhood. I love what she is doing with her art and the story she tells with her words and her body against the mainstream narrative of Black and Brown women. You ask, “What’s the story?” I say, peep the video.
For the past several days, the General Black Blogosphere has been buzzing about this preview of Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry’s documentary called ‘Dark Girls’.
The preview is a collection of experiences and stories from several dark-skinned women. What strikes me is how Black and Brown folx perpetuate this shadeism in the lives of these women.
We don’t have to wait until the film comes out to start the conversation. In fact, it’s already begun! I leave you with some questions and the video:
Dark Girls: Preview from Bradinn French on Vimeo.
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So Yoon Lym‘s exquisite details of braided hair come alive in this upcoming exhibition.
The Dreamtime is a reference to the pre-colonial Aboriginal Australian understanding of life and the particular viewpoints as understood by the dreamtime. This could be regarded as a form of spirituality. The dreamtime was an understanding of time and the creation of all things as told by myths about the continuum of past, present and future. The aborigines believed in what the European coined, the dreamtime, which to the aborigines was an interconnected way of living on an earth that they believed was inhabited by the spirits of shared ancestors.
Yep it’s my birthday so it’s a celebration at Ankara & Lace! 26% off anything in the shop today only! I’m also donating today’s proceeds to my favorite fundraiser To Mama With Love!