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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 a little late with this, but Saturday, December 1, marked the 25th World AIDS Day. On Monday’s Talk of…
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend ended in a tragedy that’s shocked many Louisville residents, again. Cheryl Williamson, 24, was shot…
I haven’t seen the new film, “Lincoln,†yet (and with what may be a pinched nerve making it hard to…
Sometimes I read posts written as responses to something unusual and esoteric written online and wonder how the respondent found…
I’ve been trying to compose something about the election for the past two weeks, but I haven’t had much to…
First, epic fail on my part for not taking any photos at the “Diana: A Celebration†exhibit at Frazier History…
The end of the year is near. I know that not just because of the change in seasons or the…
“to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation…
I said most of what I have to say about intimate partner abuse and the war on women here, but…
While it’s fun to be someone else for a day, this Halloween, I hope you’ll join me in thinking about…
I’ve already addressed “God’s gift of rape,†but since Indiana republican senate candidate Richard Mourdock has put the phrase back…
In part 1, I talked about Hanna Rosin’s book The End of Men and the Rise of Women and suggested that…
Earlier this week, I moderated a community discussion entitled, “Men Respond to the War on Women.†A panel of male…
Tonight, I have the pleasure of moderating a community discussion about everyone. I’ll be bringing the estrogen to a panel…
Last Saturday, for the first time ever, I went to a wedding and took notes. I think most single women…
In her book, The End of Men, author and The Atlantic editor Hanna Rosin explores how the “mancession†and changing…
A number of the feminists I follow on Twitter noticed something during the debates last night: women and their rights…
I love my First Lady. I was so pumped after watching her speech last night, it took me an extra…
The following is part of a real text conversation that took place February 2, 2012. ME: Did u know the…
Note: Some of this has been amended from the KFW Hot Flash weekly newsletter that went out Friday, Aug. 24….
Since I haven’t done this in a couple weeks, and I’ve spent several nights of the past week up…
The following is a real* text conversation that took place on February 24, 2012, between me and @Bill1phd, who describes…
Earlier this week, I had the honor of being a guest contributor on The Writeous Babe Project, where Javacia Bowser…
The full name of this blog is Redbone Afropuff & Black GRITS. I generally ignore the part after “and†because…
UPDATE 8/25: Watch the full broadcast here. I’ve promoted this appearance like crazy on Facebook and Twitter, but somehow, I…
