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The best of Redbone, Afropuff & Black G.R.I.T.S., plus new musings otherwise unpublishedThe full blog archive is available at RedboneAfropuff.com.
On my bicycle, at the intersection of blackness and womanhood, with feminism crossing diagonally
How the Nate Parker rape case is making black women choose between blackness and womanhood–again.
A Black Family Memoir from A Different World
Netflix removed all traces of Bill Cosby from its streamed offerings. And then this happened.
Recovering from Spiritual Perfectionism, Searching for Divine Guidance
Spiritual perfectionism is exhausting, but I don’t want to be directionless, either.
A House Divided Against Itself–Open Response to Louisville FOP 614
I concede, police officers fear for their lives. But I have the right to have compassion for their victims.
Feminist Masquerade
If you want a partner to pay your bills so you can write, can you still be a feminist?
I Know I’ve Been Changed (or How Jesus Became My Stalker Ex-Boyfriend)
What do you look for in a partner when your beliefs are in transition?
A 1954 Case in Defense of Black Womanhood
How the 1954 bombing of Andrew and Charlotte Wade’s home and the subsequent Braden sedition trial are about defending black womanhood and the black family.
No More Apologies for Being a Woman
Women who apologize for having a baby out of wedlock really are apologizing just for being women.
Place, Race, and Rooted in Research
Why I, as an African American Christian woman, am interested in studying women in the Orisa religion in Trinidad
Why Mrs. Carter Will Not Set You Free
If Beyoncé’s sexual freedom is restricted to the marriage bed, she’s doing nothing revolutionary and gets too much feminist credit.