tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post6060910756188254804..comments2023-11-05T05:17:45.320-05:00Comments on Model Minority "Thugs, Feminists and Boom Bap": The Silence of Black Women WritersM.Dot.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05113752779973426025noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-20938886738197517122009-03-15T15:07:00.000-04:002009-03-15T15:07:00.000-04:00I really like your blog. Someone on Twitter recom...I really like your blog. Someone on Twitter recommended that those of us interested in a more intellectual approach to societal issues visit your site. You do a very nice job.<BR/><BR/>Have a visit to our site. I suspect that you might find it to be of interest. Thanks.Inspector Clouseauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09373932797333038561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-77443792410837410282008-12-29T13:10:00.000-05:002008-12-29T13:10:00.000-05:00Being a black woman writer is a difficult thing. ...Being a black woman writer is a difficult thing. It is so hard to get our work published and taken seriously if we decide to write about race and gender because society is used to silencing our voices. I have sent manuscript after manuscript only to receive pretty rejection letters. It almost feels like magazines have a quota of how many so called "black articles" that they are going to publish in a month.Reneehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16388113393817266374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-64721361713242982742008-12-29T09:28:00.000-05:002008-12-29T09:28:00.000-05:00Claudette,Thank you for stopping by.I left you a n...Claudette,<BR/>Thank you for stopping by.<BR/><BR/>I left you a note on your blog as well.<BR/><BR/>Keep writing college girl.<BR/><BR/>~m.Model Minorityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18364810029145290617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-52194511947365934162008-12-27T13:45:00.000-05:002008-12-27T13:45:00.000-05:00Great post, it's deep, yet so true...Great post, it's deep, yet so true...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-21200826106172120612008-12-20T18:52:00.000-05:002008-12-20T18:52:00.000-05:00Thank you for your comment love.Cleary, I am on a...Thank you for your comment love.<BR/>Cleary, I am on a tear.<BR/><BR/>I guess I'm returning to Lorde's Sister Outsider..does that make sense?<BR/>========<BR/>Absolutely.<BR/><BR/>I wonder how silence can be a tool for transformation.<BR/>=======<BR/>It can be, to the extent that as Darlene Clark Hine puts it, "The culture of dissemblence" is a tool that we have used, which may involve silence, and it acts as a cover so that we can protect our inner lives.<BR/><BR/>However, in being silent, to be clear we cede the ground to others, who take it upon themselves to speak for us.<BR/> that http://books.google.com/books?id=9kX_fOJ8iPQC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=hine,+culture+of+dissemblance&source=bl&ots=iYAEjtxuF-&sig=4tn67WM6dW8cCZPlZuZnpqLRLLk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=resultModel Minorityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18364810029145290617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-47042437492858295582008-12-20T14:31:00.000-05:002008-12-20T14:31:00.000-05:00This is a REALLY deep essay. I wonder how silence...This is a REALLY deep essay. I wonder how silence can be a tool for transformation. I wonder how the act of silencing itself on black women has cultivated black feminist spaces. <BR/><BR/>Black women writers have to continuously deal with being silenced but I think to choose (like you did with the type of black man who wants to keep his masculinity in tact by rejecting a black feminist) to challenge patriarchy within our own communities by writing and finding your voice is powerful. I guess I'm returning to Lorde's Sister Outsider..does that make sense? <BR/><BR/>LIving in the margins is radical, most times lonely, but ultimately necessary!! <BR/>Again, THank YOU for your courage!!RPoetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08082399497674613513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-77834181907879524252008-12-19T10:15:00.000-05:002008-12-19T10:15:00.000-05:00Ankh Ah Hello new commenter. Thank you for sharing...Ankh Ah <BR/>Hello new commenter. <BR/>Thank you for sharing and for reading<BR/><BR/>If you coulda heard the uh-huhs and mm-hmmms I was exhaling as I read.<BR/>========<BR/>Like church hunh?<BR/><BR/>You know, it really it really was an embracing and after a certain point, I HAD TO, because in many ways my world changed so drastically in the last month that putting my arms around it was the only way to prevent it from mutilating me<<<---That girl be writing<BR/><BR/>that I ultimately gave up the little dream I'd had of being a writer because I didn't want Black men to think I disliked them. I hadn't really reflected on this until just now, reading your post. I see how quick I was to stay in the "good graces" those who have a history of silencing me... wow wow wow.<BR/>=======<BR/>First of all, if you would give me the honor, I would love to read your essays and personal stories.<BR/><BR/>Secondly, Silence is the way of the walk. I just JUST finished my personal statement ON THE SILENCE and SILENCING OF BLACK WOMEN AROUND BLACK FEMALE SEXUALITY. <BR/>That being said. If you want to write, write.<BR/>If you are f-cking with people, then that means you are doing something right.<BR/><BR/>As SJ says, "You are a child of god, how dare anyone sh.t on your dreams."M.Dot.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05113752779973426025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-66082287785259180112008-12-18T18:09:00.000-05:002008-12-18T18:09:00.000-05:00I wanted to add that in my senior year, my thesis ...I wanted to add that in my senior year, my thesis was a collection of essays and personal stories. The responses to my writing (not the style or form, but the content) brought so much hostility and straight up nastiness from Black men, that I ultimately gave up the little dream I'd had of being a writer because I didn't want Black men to think I disliked them. I hadn't really reflected on this until just now, reading your post. I see how quick I was to stay in the "good graces" those who have a history of silencing me... wow wow wow.ahnkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12644716230385362982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-72877343141317095132008-12-18T18:04:00.000-05:002008-12-18T18:04:00.000-05:00That Hernton quote couldn't be more true. Good Lor...That Hernton quote couldn't be more true. Good Lord, you've taken me back to the debates in my undergrad classes. If you coulda heard the uh-huhs and mm-hmmms I was exhaling as I read. I applaud you for embracing that teachable moment *after* that "as long as I can watch" mess.<BR/><BR/>I do not know you but I love you for writing this post. <BR/><BR/>Good luck on that GRE!ahnkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12644716230385362982noreply@blogger.com