Gender Issues in Sepia Space Cover Story » Drylongso Drylongso sought out some of the pioneers of the internet and asked them about their experiences with race and gender on the internet. In a wide ranging email conversation, Art McGee, Kali Tal, Dr. Goddess, Mike Bowen and Drylongso’s Editor, Lisa Jeter engage in a meta discussion of their expectations of their participation on the internet and the realities such as cyberstalking, feminism and expressions of masculinity. [Comments () | Trackback]
The Gender Warriors Feature » Leonard Johnson In every mail list or usenet group on the internet, there are people who see relationships as a War. Battles for Equality and/or Respect that must be waged if the state of Black relationships is to remain honest. It is the purpose of these self-appointed warriors to insure that members of their gender “Keep It Real.” [Comments () | Trackback]
Her Wired Black Body Feature » Kamela Heyward-Rotimi Whether looking up a site, checking my email, or visiting some of my favorite African American online haunts I cautiously keep an eye out for language and images that threaten my definition as an African American woman. [Comments () | Trackback]
360 Degrees of Love Feature » Bob Davis Mickey and Sylvia told us back in 1956 with their hit record, that “Love Is Strange”. Not only is it strange, it’s also predictable. [Comments () | Trackback]
GUARDIAN OF THE FLAME: Big Chief Donald Harrison Feature » Kalamu ya Salaam It was a summer day in December. The sky was high, powder blue with cotton clouds. The scorching sun bounced off the white of the church building facade. Coming around the corner, brother man pulled (and sometimes pushed) a blue shopping cart that held a yellow fifty gallon trash can with an ice pick stuck on the top perimeter of the plastic container. Dude had a fist full of dollar bills in his left hand. I knew what he was doing. He was selling beer. [Comments () | Trackback]
Imagining a Gender Neutral Black Male/Female Relationship Feature » Lynne D. Johnson Not too long ago, many lauded the great equalizing affects of the Internet. In these praises proponents pointed to the anonymous nature of the virtual identity, in which a non-ethnic specific or non-gender specific cybername enables an Internet user to mask his or her color, and therefore ethnicity, or gender. And while on many levels, cyberspace does democratize communication it truly depends on the context. Because of this, cyberspace enables a new paradigm for exploring the social construct of black male/female relationships. Instead of destructive and non-communicative relationships, cyberspace enables black men and women to forge relationships via new pathways. [Comments () | Trackback]
Pop American Teen Idol Fiction » Rochelle Spencer Jasmine Ambrosia Marguerite Walker wants to be a star, and she knows just the way to do it. Next week, Jasmine plans on losing her virginity over the Internet to one of three lucky bachelors who have already been pre-selected by the more than 15 million weekly visitors to her website (www.Jasmineslostcherry.com). For ten dollars, payable by MasterCard or Visa, visitors can vote for Dyrell Jefferson, the all-American football player, Rodney Williams, the seventeen year old Harvard medical school graduate, or Bloodie Killa, the glamorous bad boy rapper of F U Hard Records. For an additional twenty dollars, visitors can decide other less essential elements of the rendezvous—the type of condom to be used (ribbed, flavored, etc.), bed sheets (silk or satin), music, and lighting (candlelight is Jasmine’s choice, but she knows it will lose to florescent because the people, of course, want to see as much as possible). [Comments () | Trackback]
Least Expected Poetry » Toni Asante Lightfoot ten years full of wanting of waiting. . . his eyes a grace finally turn to me [Comments () | Trackback]
Afroam Woman Poetry » Kimberly C. Ellis Most of y’all motherfuckers who ain’t really motherfuckers become motherfuckers when you don’t pucker up to say shit. [Comments () | Trackback]
NO! for Aishah Shahidah Simmons Poetry » Kevin Powell Will us black boys ever learn that power can’t be pulled from the meat of our third leg like the last taste of malt liquor sucked from the bottom of a bottle? ... [Comments () | Trackback]
