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23 Feb 15

Black Women In History: A Bill, An African America...

By Stan Solomillo Carlotta Stewart in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, c. 1900. (Original at Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washin...

20 Feb 15

Carrie Updates Us On Her Date with Wes Murphy̷...

“Win A Date With Wes Murphy” By Carrie Thompson As I watched my laundry churn my mind drifts to a place of nervousness, ‘how well would I mesh w...

18 Feb 15

Black Women’s History (Kissing the Asian Guy): C...

By Stan Solomillo In 2007, a popular blog, “Sardonic Sistah Says,” noted that the resolution of the romantic interest between the l...

16 Feb 15

Zara: Asian Men, Black Women…So Undesirable,...

I was 16 years old, and it was my first semester at my boarding school in western MA, USA. I was cold. I was always cold. I’m from the tropics s...

13 Feb 15

Black Women in History: A Nineteenth Century Image...

By Stan Solomillo This albumin print of a young Afro-Peruvian woman is in the Library of Congress and was taken in front of a painted landscape in a p...

dating, romance, intimacy, sociopaths, sex, vetting,

11 Feb 15

Carrie: “Ulterior Motives: Are We Dating Interra...

By Carrie Thompson I lost my virginity to an 18-year-old white male named Tyler. Sick of being a virgin, I wanted to experience what the grapevine was...

09 Feb 15

Black Women’s History: You’ve Got Somethin...

Written by Stan Solomillo (yes…the Stan…;-) ”Maria Gonzalez and Soldaderas.” “The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from th...

09 Feb 15

Zac: “ I wish a muthaf#^%*a WOULD,” and Other...

By: ZacOnBothSides By now, you know about it, have heard about it, have seen it or were watching it: Kanye West, upset again about a Grammy he felt sh...

03 Feb 15

Zara: ‘Bad Hair’ Blues – Not All...

I stopped chemically straightening my hair years ago – this was before the natural hair movement had taken off in the USA. I initially stopped ...

02 Feb 15

Mamie: “I Am Damaged, But Not Broken.”

I woke up this morning and got ready for work and looked in the mirror for a bit. Such a mundane inconsequential action, looking in the mirror, but wh...