Showing posts with label black feminist perspectives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black feminist perspectives. Show all posts

Friday, July 23, 2010

Changing the way we 'Pink' it up!


As part of my ongoing radio work at WBAI in NYC, I am privy to powerful women's voices. Here's someone I just met (virtually, she lives in California) for the first time. Her name is Sikivu Hutchinson. Here is some of her work: Pink Princesses, Blue Commandos

My daughter is no princess. Loud, assertive, and headstrong, she would just as soon as stomp on a castle drawbridge with her big size six feet than pine coyly from it, twirling a dainty lock of hair waiting for a Ken doll suitor. Yet the multi-billion dollar media marketing regime is poised to shoehorn her 2 year-old self into being one. Read the full article here.