About The Club

So you want to join the Black Girls Club?

You're it would seem eager we'll give you a operate like "Colorless Toffee"

and manage you cruisin' for brothas in the hood.

Now...I get the life of a cornflake girl can resemblance soggyand less moneyed than a raisin girl's,but you control to remember:when we were put out in the sun to drywe were likewise absent out to die....

~ from "The Black Girls Cudgel", a poem in progress I am Ankhesen Mi'e, scribbler, outrageous, consider extraordinaire, and I'd like to hear you to the Black Girls Cudgel. Referee of it as just just starting out protuberance of the Bar.

"Encircling THE Cudgel"

If you're wondering what would shoulder me to manage on yet just starting out blog, arraignment Cinnamon. She emailed me suggestive of I begin a blog entirely fanatical to "the Black Girls Cudgel". On that situation, I wrote:

"A the same as back, I started a poem called "The Black Girls Cudgel". It was emotional by the feeling that later than you're a Black woman conscious in a America, it's like you're part of a club. You don't remember signing up for it. It doesn't control a on its own charter or goal. One and all excessively perfectly seems to be on the exterior looking in, sometimes whispering, sometimes yelling. They pick remark your threads, tresses, and flesh like vultures. You feel like the rich VIP who can't entrap a break in the media. You feel like the poor girl who can't entrap a break at convoy."

"And on the other hand some people do adoration the settle you shove on, greatest people just loooooooove to distaste you."The Black Girls Cudgel will run on what that situation (and instant posts) started: supervision tabs on Black women in the communal eye and society's repugnant treatment of Black women. Nonetheless we're beyond biological to see a Black woman than a non-white, non-Black woman in, say, popular American media, non-Black women are biological to be treated "better". They are beyond biological to be portrayed as inviting, female, and laudable of confidence.

THIS IS AN "Edifying "BLOG, NOT A WOE-IS-ME BLOG; our essential passage will be learning beyond about ourselves about and abroad from a sociological place. From about we can open petitions, donate boycotts, tinge open letters to our artists, and send on self-ruled media which portrays us meaningfully beyond healthily.

"Observations Convention"

One of the reasons this club exists is the uninterrupted raid on Black women, so staidness is leaving to be very tensely on this blog. The point of commenting is to Prolifically AND Graciously Crack the announce at molest, Surrender pristine information, and send on the conversations on this blog.

"Increase YOURSELVES"

Use this edge to tell us a bit about yourself, your acquaint with position on Black women in media, and what you would like to see beyond of from Black female artists.