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May 04

A Fatty By Any Means Necessary

By CURLYNIKKI Curly Nikki 74 Comments

Sourceby Shanti of A Curls BFI was sitting here this morning puttering around the house listening to NPR's special called "The Hidden World of Girls" produced by "The Kitchen Sisters". It was a fabulous collection of stories about the experiences, struggles and "inner worlds" of young women from around the world. The last story introduced a growing trend amongst women…

Jan 27

‘Black Woman With the Hard Hair’

By CURLYNIKKI Curly Nikki 16 Comments

via Black Women of Brazil Within a week of each other, two songs and artists that have were denounced many years ago by members of Brazil’s black and feminist movements were served legal losses. On December 24th, the performance royalty of the Bahian* singer Luiz Caldas was cut because of his live performance of one of his most popular songs.So…

Jan 27

Is This What JC Penney Thinks of Our Daughters?

By CURLYNIKKI Curly Nikki 42 Comments

by Rene Syler of GoodEnoughMother.com Come on now! In just a couple of day, my daughter will head off to high school. She will more than likely follow that with a successful collegiate career, land a good job and be a fine, upstanding citizen. Over the past decade and a half, I have been steadily reinforcing the idea (in her…