LIPSTICKS FOR WOMEN OF COLOR:RED
Black Girls Reclaiming the Erotic
WISHLIST: 2013 WINTER BOOKLIST X POETRY & CLASSICS
grrrl sounds: TIOMBE LOCKHART X CUBIC ZIRCONIA
You had me at “LEX & T DON’T FUCK FOR FREE”
“Watching humanity and seeing how people are, it kind of gives you compassion. It helps you understand that everyone is necessary. Everyone plays a part. It’s also taught me the most important thing which is, you just have to go with the flow.”
- Tiombe Lockhart
POET: WARSAN SHIRE X “for women who are difficult to love”
you are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highway
to a burning house
says you are blinding him
that he could never leave you
forget you
want anything but you
you dizzy him, you are unbearable
every woman before or after you
is doused in your name
you fill his mouth
his teeth ache with memory of taste
his body just a long shadow seeking yours
but you are always too intense
frightening in the way you want him
unashamed and sacrificial
he tells you that no man can live up to the one who
lives in your head
and you tried to change didn’t you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer
prettier
less volatile, less awake
but even when sleeping you could feel
him travelling away from you in his dreams
so what did you want to do love
split his head open?
you can’t make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love.
for women who are difficult to love from brianna olson on Vimeo.
“I think in a complete scale of human consciousness and the synchronicity of woman alongside the alignment of planets, there’s a lot of woman & girls on they girl power shit, and I think that’s beautiful.”-Wavy Spice
WAVY SPICE – DESTINY from ISYS on Vimeo.
VAPID OBSESSIONS: 2013 WISH LIST X LIT.&LIPSTICK
MUSE: MARPESSA DAWN
“A pretty, frank face and a gentle manner that suggest absolute innocence,” the review continued, “gather an aura of wistfulness about her that filters down into a melancholy mood.”-nytimes
grrrl sounds: SOLANGE x “TRUE”
STACEYANN CHIN
“watch me lose my acquired manners see me run wild woman loose skin stop asking me to be still kill me if you will I intend to run circles round this tight white drawers you have put me in.”
-Staceyann Chinn
