Support the Mission
THE ARCHIVES
- October 2017 (1)
- September 2017 (1)
- August 2017 (4)
- June 2017 (1)
- May 2017 (4)
- April 2017 (4)
- March 2017 (2)
- February 2017 (4)
- January 2017 (4)
- December 2016 (1)
- October 2016 (2)
- September 2016 (1)
- August 2016 (1)
- July 2016 (1)
- June 2016 (5)
- May 2016 (1)
- April 2016 (1)
- February 2016 (1)
- January 2016 (1)
- December 2015 (1)
- October 2015 (3)
- September 2015 (3)
- August 2015 (1)
- July 2015 (5)
- June 2015 (7)
- May 2015 (1)
- April 2015 (2)
- March 2015 (1)
- February 2015 (1)
- December 2014 (1)
- November 2014 (1)
- September 2014 (5)
- August 2014 (5)
- July 2014 (10)
- June 2014 (3)
- May 2014 (2)
- March 2014 (3)
- January 2014 (5)
- December 2013 (2)
- November 2013 (25)
- October 2013 (2)
- September 2013 (6)
- August 2013 (6)
- July 2013 (2)
- June 2013 (3)
- May 2013 (3)
- March 2013 (7)
- February 2013 (7)
- January 2013 (4)
- December 2012 (9)
- November 2012 (7)
- October 2012 (9)
- September 2012 (1)
- August 2012 (8)
- July 2012 (2)
- June 2012 (5)
- May 2012 (2)
- April 2012 (3)
- March 2012 (3)
- February 2012 (2)
- January 2012 (3)
- December 2011 (4)
- November 2011 (1)
- October 2011 (4)
- September 2011 (2)
- August 2011 (3)
- June 2011 (3)
- May 2011 (6)
- February 2011 (2)
- January 2011 (3)
- November 2010 (3)
- October 2010 (6)
- September 2010 (3)
- August 2010 (2)
- June 2010 (5)
- May 2010 (1)
Topics on Redbone Afropuff
- #SneakPeaks (1)
- 52Essays2017 (22)
- America (77)
- Back in the Day (8)
- Before My Time (7)
- best of (48)
- Black Culture (63)
- Black Girls Raised In The Global South (11)
- Children (18)
- Deep thoughts (68)
- Entertainment (42)
- Faith (85)
- Faith and Feminism Friday (25)
- Family (23)
- Fat Tuesday (3)
- Feminism (96)
- Food (3)
- GRITS (16)
- Guest Posts/Bloggers (4)
- Health (9)
- History (38)
- In the news and on our minds (64)
- Life (58)
- Phat Tuesday (2)
- Politics (37)
- Rape culture (6)
- Re-prints (12)
- RedboneAfropuff in the Global South (11)
- Reflections (9)
- Required Reading (4)
- Science vs. conscience (13)
- Self love – self hate (33)
- Sex (38)
- The Community (50)
- The Heart (36)
- Trinidad 2014 (15)
- Uncategorized (2)
- Well Women (15)
- wildcard wednesday (2)
- Women (109)
- Writing Life (36)
CREDIT WHERE IT’S DUE
Redbone Afropuff & Black GRITS by Mariam Williams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. ("Redbone Afropuff & Black GRITS" refers to all text and art work on RedboneAfropuff.com created by Mariam Williams.)
I’m among the million or so people who have seen NFL player Benjamin Watson’s Facebook post about Ferguson, but in…
“If you had a little girl right now, how would you discipline her?” a friend asked me recently. “I don’t…
This inconsistency between black identity and Christianity’s role in the oppression of black people is something I think all black…
At the Emancipation Day parade in Trinidad, something happened that I didn’t expect: Jesus showed up. The truck we had…
I hate when I think of a snappy comeback three weeks after a discussion ends. That’s happening right now, as…
Despite the photos I’m posting on Facebook and Twitter, this trip isn’t all, or even 10%, about the beach. It’s…
I write about my life of “existing in many spaces at once, holding multiple identities and not quite serving…
I wrote my first post/essay of the day at about 2:00 in the afternoon on yet another day that I told…
Last week I had the privilege of attending Freedom Dreams Freedom Now, a conference sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative at…
I saw a lot of men up in arms on social media yesterday over a New Jersey Superior Court judge’s…
I passed on the Grammy Awards last Sunday to go see 12 Years a Slave. When I got home from…
While my parents were teaching me to be the best student I could be, my Christian faith taught me to…
I’m a little late on looking back, but I wrote 67 posts in 2013. Here’s my top 10 list of…
I said I wouldn’t write about this because I knew I wouldn’t download the album until after Christmas and my…
In “The Comfort of a Sweet, Black, Dreadlocked Jesus,” I recalled the image of Jesus Christ as depicted in a painting…
What makes me a feminist? I’ve been thinking about this question since my feminism history class last night. We were…
I watched a video on Facebook today of a little who might have been four or five years old mimicking…
I could probably blog for a year on all the issues brought up in this interview   with 19-year-old London art…
No, not Mellie, even though I am writing this after Scandal. At a housewarming party last week for a…
April, the only character on Grey’s Anatomy who identifies as Christian and the only one who has conflicts about…
A note about today’s post: I have a bi-weekly column on National Catholic Reporter, and I plan to use these…
I’ve made a commitment to #BlogLikeCrazy this month, an action I believe is necessary but also for real for real…
Is entertainment always glorification? I ponder this question almost every Thursday night as social media lights up with #gladiator hashtags…
My first thought after reading Gina Messina-Dysert’s  post, “Feminism vs. Humanism: Continuing to claim a feminist identityâ€Â was, “Guess she missed that…
Coming this Monday, September 23rd, I join National Catholic Reporter as a regular online columnist. My column is called, “At…
