The recent news that ATL rapper Shawty Lo (of Laffy Taffy fame) may be the potential star of a new reality show featuring him, his 11 children, and his 10 baby mamas had this feminist searching for somebody’s pearls to clutch, seeing as how even the First Lady’s love of pearls has not inspired me […]
Author: crunktastic
How Do You Get Crunk?
For us, Crunk Feminism has always been about showcasing the possibilities of existing productively with our contradictions, about embracing our tensions, about avoiding easy answers, about not preaching to the choir, about struggling and making-meaning in community, and about having side-spliting fun, whenever possible. In short, we believe in getting CRUNK, in all the […]
CFC Plans for 2013: We Need Your Support!
Dear Family: As we near the end of a stellar year at the CFC, we want to thank you for your steadfast support. This year we achieved many milestones. Because of your support, we have received over 1.7 million views to our blog. In early August we reached over 10,000 Facebook fans, and to date […]
Black Women Rock the Vote. Black Men Mock the Vote?: An Election Day Story
The first presidential election in which I was old enough to vote was the 2000 Gore-Bush contest. On Election Day, my mother called me and said simply, “I wanted to make sure you voted today. Your great-grandmother (born in rural North Louisiana in 1903) took great pride in voting. You do the same.” My great-grandmother […]
She’s Not Heavy, She’s Our Sister: Love Notes for Sharmeka
Dear Sharmeka, I’m so sorry for what happened to you. I am sending you love. What happened to you has been a wake up call about the traumas of being multiply marginalized in this world. I hope you get exactly what you need. So much love, Moya Dear Sharmeka, Hey sis. I just wanted to […]
When the Hoodies Are White: Justice4SharmekaMoffitt
On Sunday evening, Sharmeka Moffitt went to a local park in Winnsboro, Louisiana to “walk a mile and run a mile.” Sometime later, she was approached by three men in “white t-shirt hoodies” who doused her with flammable liquid and set her on fire. For good measure, they scrawled “KKK” and “nigger” on her car. […]
Unleash Your Inner Wench
One of the things I love about the Hip Hop Generation is our ingenuity, our willingness to reinvent ourselves, and to think anew about the traditions we’ve been handed. When you mix that ingenuity with the kind of conscientious political critique that comes from Black and Brown feminisms, something remarkable happens. With appropriate intention, mundane, […]
At the Risk of Sounding Angry: On Melissa Harris-Perry’s Eloquent Rage
The internets were all abuzz over the weekend sharing clips of our collective Black feminist shero Melissa Harris-Perry’s Saturday morning show. During the show, she lost her cool with panelist Monica Mehta, a conservative financial expert, who represented every unthoughtful mythic thing that I’ve come to believe a person has to believe in order to […]
Throwback Thursday: Back-to-School Beatitudes–10 Academic Survival Tips
Update, August 2012 Next week, my full time grind starts again, after a year of being on fellowship, which allowed me the time to think, read and begin the process of writing my first book. I’m grateful for the time. It has been a year of re-learning old lessons, numbers 1, 2, 4, and 5 […]
Ratchet Feminism
Down in the A, as all things Love and Hip Hop go, ish is moving from CRUNK to straight up RATCHET very quickly. One of the things that brought the CFC together besides our love of and immersion in Atlanta’s Hip Hop culture is a desire to have less high brow conversations about the range […]