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Dysfunctional Diva Diatribe: August 2007

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007. My Dirty Little Secret. 8220;What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.”. I watched my first adult film at age 13. Spending the night at my older cousin’s house promised to be an evening filled with girl talk, Jiffy Pop and. In the VCR. But what transpired over the course of six hours was more hardcore than any Molly Ringwald movie. I grew fearful that we weren’t alone in the apartment, a paranoia spurred by the contact high I was getting. Over the year...

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Dysfunctional Diva Diatribe: June 2007

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Thursday, June 14, 2007. How it Feels to be Colored Me. 8211; Zora Neale Hurston. 8220;How it Feels to be Colored Me”. I love being a woman of color. That might not be such a P.C. thing to proclaim in today’s color-blind utopia, race-is-a-social-construct society, but I love blackness in all its permutations. There, I said it. The first op-ed piece that I published in the Baltimore. As a black woman living in the multicultural mosaic that is Los Angeles, sometimes my otherness stands out like a knock-off...

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Dysfunctional Diva Diatribe: March 2007

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Monday, March 12, 2007. Rasheeda’s Blues: Black Women and Anxiety. Have we gone crazy? For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. All this time, I feared dying of a heart attack, and my asthma, which had been under control, was about to take me out. I’ve heard this argument before, especially from my male friends. Weakly, I concede. I can handle this. One mile from Raina’s house, I see a gift from God: HOSPITAL NEXT EXIT. Has the sign been there all this time? I never noticed...

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Dysfunctional Diva Diatribe: March 2008

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Resurrecting Jamiel’s Dream. Parents should never have to bury their kids. They should never have to stand at a bier gazing down at the body of their beloved, but Jamiel Sr. and Anita Shaw were unable to escape such a heartbreaking fate. Yesterday, I went to the homegoing ceremony for their son, Jamiel. I walked up to the altar to view the body, right behind men wearing yellow gang intervention jackets. A teen behind me muttered, “I hate this shit! One of these mornings. He rec...

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Dysfunctional Diva Diatribe: May 2007

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Thursday, May 24, 2007. Bringing Sexy Back … Front and Center. 8220;Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else, and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.”. 8220;You gotta keep her off the pole! Anilla-scented candles dotted the North Hollywood loft, and Guy’s “Piece of My Love” pulsated from speakers in the dimly lit room …. The first 30 to 40 minutes of class were spent warming up and doing stretches on the mat, albeit erotic ones. We lear...

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Dysfunctional Diva Diatribe: April 2007

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Monday, April 23, 2007. Face of a Killer. One week after the tragedy at Virginia Tech, the nation still struggles to make sense of the senseless. But even grief is filtered through the prism of race. As I read articles on the VTech tragedy by writers with Asian surnames, surprise, disappointment and fear permeate their commentaries. It's as if Cho's crime brought down the race somehow. Chinese journalist Lisa Ling, who covered the story for. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my page on.

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Dysfunctional Diva Diatribe: September 2007

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Saturday, September 29, 2007. Saturday Freestylin' and Profilin'. Just checking in and making good on my commitment to write for three weeks straight. Since Monday, I’ve been posting here and on my other blog Crossing Sunset. For the mathematically challenged, I’m on day — or should I say night — number six. I have much love for those writers who have the discipline to sit at their computer and blog every day. It's challenging for a sista! Time to go profilin'. Signing off . for now. Links to this post.

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Dysfunctional Diva Diatribe

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007. My Dirty Little Secret. 8220;What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.”. I watched my first adult film at age 13. Spending the night at my older cousin’s house promised to be an evening filled with girl talk, Jiffy Pop and. In the VCR. But what transpired over the course of six hours was more hardcore than any Molly Ringwald movie. I grew fearful that we weren’t alone in the apartment, a paranoia spurred by the contact high I was getting. Over the year...