Tayari's Blog: Negritudinous Links

Posted by TayariJones on April 18, 2008 09:27 AM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

Still suffering from the alergy situation. I've lost my voice!

  • R.I.P. Aime Cesaire, the father of the Negritude movement.
  • Publishing Opportunity: APLA Writing Project 2009 is focusing on writing and images that grapple with the questions of what it means to be, know and love gay men of African descent in the 21st century.
  • Zoreh's larygytis cure. (It's complicated but it works.)
  • Ahem. Has the Washington Post ever heard of Langston Hughes?
  • Got video? PBS is offering $2000 to help citizens create three-minute videos about thier feelings on the electon. SheCodes is lobbying hard for someone to make a video about black women that is not set in a beauty parlor.
  • Janice went to a screening of the Showtime film "Very Young Girls" and returned home hating the word "pimp" even more than I do. Well maybe not more, but she and I are totally on the same page with this.

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    Comment #1, by minaj [TypeKey Profile Page]

    Every person who has ever called prostitution a "victimless crime" should see this film, or, at the very least, read Janice's heartbreaking description of it. THIRTEEN? Mere babies! How could anyone possibly convict a child of prostitution if she is under the age of consent? Young girls are so vulnerable and so eager for attention and flattery - we have got to find better ways of protecting them until they are strong enough to protect themselves.

    April 19, 2008 09:41 PM

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