Urban Honking

New Republic film crit Christopher Orr gets it right again, this time about the criminally under-Oscared Hotel Rwanda. He does, however, omit the brilliant performance of Sophie Okonedo as Tatiana (he also omits her name), who absolutely should have won Best Supporting Actress, and maybe even out-acted Don Cheadle.

Because my notes are so lengthy, so thorough, and because I’ve barely had a chance to mentally unpack everything, I’ll probably just post what I wrote panel by panel or person by person, for archival purposes, and eventually try to come to some conclusion. Essence Health Editor Akiba Solomon has, time and again, struck a […]

The above tri-lingual razzle-dazzle is to distract myself from the mortal shame that accompanies an email from young homes Sean Fennessey, telling me I am totes making orgasm-face on the Fader blog. Subject line: “The Letter, not the Omarion Single.” At least schnookums and I can cancel our order for that mirrored canopy now. Here […]

Feminism flags at half-mast for our popess: one of our greatest, most vocal thinkers, humanists, feminists, writers has passed away. Peace to you, Ms. Dworkin, and may they take you more seriously wherever you’ve gone.

C’n’P’s favorite professor/columnist/critic/veejay/professional roller-skater is on the floss with an audioblog. It is Jew-wise and Latin-centric, hott cadre 9000.

Again, these are just my notes, and they are transcribed verbatim, though I will try to explain what they mean where necessary. The following comes from a panel including Spelman College professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall, cultural critic Joan Morgan (who wrote seminal work When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist) and […]

friends of PDX’s OG rock and roll camp for girls: the BK version has a date and venue. NOTE: don’t let rock title fully mislead, i know karla & crew are making serious efforts to include DJing, MCing, a hip-hop class as well. become their friend at www.williemaerockcamp.org and donate instruments if you can! > […]

A few months ago, when I was talking to someone about attending the Feminism in Hip-Hop conference, he asked me, “Are there any hip-hop feminists?” This weekend has answered his question: hundreds of scholars, activists, journalists, high school teachers, public health workers, students, regular everyday hip-hop feminists, female and male, showed up and built at […]