The Potty Mouth Granny

  • Remembering bell hooks

    I didn’t discover bell hooks until I went to college in 2002. I majored in sociology and minored in history. Took two Women and Gender courses and it was then I was introduced to her works. And my life changed. Her writings made me think deeply and I learned to fight for myself as a…

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  • The Original Black Feminist Gangster – Ida B. Wells – Barnett

    From a college paper written many moons ago…… My first introduction to Ida B. Wells-Barnett was during Black History Month when I was in grade school.  Other than that, her history was alien to me as someone from Mars.  Of course her name was familiar to me; there used to be a housing project on…

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  • Black Femicide

    Please donate to this cause. Almost 1400 Black women have been murdered this year and the marvelous woman who has consistently found data is having a march to protest this crime against humanity. https://gofund.me/09b54663

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  • Self Love & Why It’s So Important to Black Women

    It’s time sisters. It’s time to love yourselves and stop worrying about men who wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire. The same group of men who spend their days and nights on the social media defaming your character and calling you bald headed, ugly, Black ass bitches. I know it’s hard living…

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  • The Fake Ass Online War on Black Single Mothers

    For 13 years, it has been an online war on single Black mothers perpetrated by Black men that is pathetic and disgusting. And it’s fake as fuck. Let me break it down how fake this war is. These dudes get on various social media platforms ranting and raving about Black single mothers, calling them everything…

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  • Femininity Gurus, Relationship Experts, and Various Other Quacks and Shysters

    One of the easiest ways to make money via the social media is to exploit the insecurities of Black women. Black women in this country have been told by the dominant culture and their own kind for centuries that they are ugly, masculine, and as a whole, unlovable. As a result of this never ending…

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  • Realization Is a Hard Pill to Swallow

    It was a year in October that I was diagnosed with epilepsy and since then, I’ve worked two jobs. Both jobs I’ve walked away from because the medication I take to control the seizures makes me so tired and discombobulated that I’m useless. The medication I’m taking is levetiracetam and the side effects are loss…

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  • A Rough Season

    This summer was supposed to have been a great one but unfortunately, I lost two childhood friends that I loved like sisters in two months. Most people lose contact with their childhood friends as they get older but I have been fortunate that I’m still in contact with the majority. I spent my teens, 20s,…

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  • Middle Age Angst of a Black Generation X Around the Way Girl

    I’m currently watching BET Soul and they played Mary J. Blige’s video “Love No Limit” and lord it brought back memories of being young and carefree. Then it occurred to me that this album will be 30 years old next year. The same age as my son and now I feel old as mummy dirt.…

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  • The Art of Aging as a Woman

    Being a woman ain’t no cakewalk at all, especially in a society that deems a woman old and washed up at the age of 30. But someway, somehow I have managed to survive turning 50 years old. I was depressed in the months leading up to my birthday. I was grieving over the loss of…

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