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“Finding Love In A Hopeless Place: On Loving Black Queer Men”

Photo by Louisa McCullough. “Shine a light through an open door/love and life I will divide/turn away cause I need you more/feel your heart beat in my mind…” It hurts to be disappointed. It hurts to hurl your expectations onto … More »

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A Response: Men Sharing Their Feelings is NOT A Feminist ACT!

  photo by Swedish Carana   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.   Recently, my good friend Moya Bailey sent me the following post via tumblr: http://ourcatastrophe.tumblr.com/post/21377821535/probably-my-most-unpopular-opinion-is-that-i-just The post, written by a person named … More »

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My Interview on “The Line” Blog!

I was recently interviewed on Whereisyourline.org, an amazing blog run by The Line organization. An excerpt from the interview is below. You can find the full interview here. The Interview: The Line features Interviews with your favorite badass feminists and … More »

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“Am I The Kind of Man That I Want?” Reflections One Year Later

A year ago today, I released the third video poem from my album Purple Galaxy, “Are We The Kind Of Boys We Want?”. Less than an hour after it’s release, my inbox was flooded with emails from black gay men … More »

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Emotional Justice: The Principle Of Projection

“Projections change the world into the replica of one’s own unknown face.” – Carl Jung A story: A brown-skin black woman walks into a room. Her hair is a bright fluorescent red, cut sharply into a bob. Her jeans are … More »

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“It’s Not My Birthday, & I Don’t Want Cake”: On Rihanna & Chris Brown

Terern In VirginaThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.   Rihanna and Chris Brown are working together creatively, and also rumored to be back together. Click here for more on this. For those already familiar … More »

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A Moment for Marlon: Celebrating One of the Black Gay Greats

Today is the birthday of the Emmy award winning Filmmaker, activist and author  Marlon Riggs! Happy birthday Marlon! It’s not a surprise to me that Marlon was an Aquarius. In so many ways, he embodied the Aquarian ideal.   He … More »

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From Baptist Minister, To Atheist, To Muslim & Astrologer; An Interview with the Brilliant Samuel Reynolds

Today my interview series with African American Astrologers continues with the brilliant Samuel Reynolds! Samuel is the founder of the Astrology Career Institute and the author of the horoscopes for Ebony.Com.  He is also a brilliant soul and individual. He … More »

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“Letters To NASA”: An Interview with Artist & Astrologer Debra Renee Jeter

Today my “Astrology & African Americans” series continues with an interview with Debra Renee Jeter, a good friend of mine. Debra is an amazing artist and astrologer based in Atlanta who has written letters to NASA demanding they seriously consider … More »

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Last Year Rocked!: The 7 Most Visited Videos & Articles of 2011 on YoloAkili.Com!

  2011 was quite a creative year for me.  I had the opportunity to release my third video from my poetry album,  and create and help to promote some pretty amazing work.  For all of who you are new to … More »

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