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Writers! Submit to Black Girl Dangerous and Get Paid For Your Work

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:39:00 -0800

Writers! Submit to BGD and get paid for your work. More info through the link. Share with QTPOC writers you know!

http://blackgirldangerous.org/about-bgd/

Black Girl Dangerous--The Redux

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:54:00 -0800

Fans, fellow bloggers and friends! The BGD blog has moved! Check us out at www.blackgirldangerous.org

Trans* Women Writers: Call For Submissions to Black Girl Dangerous

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:59:00 -0800

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Thanks For Giving: A Shout-Out To My Sisters In the Struggle

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:20:00 -0800

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Transgender Day of Remembrance: The Calling of Names

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:59:00 -0800

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Pre-Order "The Summer We Got Free," a queer literary novel by Mia McKenzie

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:48:54 -0800

Looking for the perfect gift for your people this holiday season? What’s equal parts entertaining, provocative, sexy, funny, brilliant and beautiful? “The Summer We Got Free,” a literary novel by Mia McKenzie!!

Praised by author, poet, playwright and critic Jewelle Gomez as “a brilliant tapestry filled with the exuberance and anxiety..”

Pre-order your copy and get it before Christmas!

Get it here.

I'm Not Innocent, and I Still Won't Stop Calling You Out On Obama

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:30:00 -0800

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I Want A President

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:54:00 -0800

“I want a dyke for president. I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia.

I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president who has stood on line at the clinic, at the dmv, at the welfare office and has been unemployed and layed off and sexually harrassed and gay-bashed and deported.

I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy.

I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown: always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief and never caught.”

— Zoe Leonard, 1992

Interview with Black Girl Dangerous Creator Mia McKenzie, on Being a Queer Black Femme Nerd and Other Good Stuff

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:29:00 -0800

Interview with Black Girl Dangerous Creator Mia McKenzie, on Being a Queer Black Femme Nerd and Other Good Stuff

See Mia McKenzie in Beloved: A Requiem For Our Dead

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:58:47 -0700

Don’t miss Black Girl Dangerous creator Mia McKenzie in Beloved: A Requiem For Our Dead. She’ll be debuting a literary tribute to the late, great Whitney Houston. From one queer black girl to another.

Saturday, November 3, 2012, 8pm

The Living Room project, 1919 Market St, Oakland CA

Sliding scale $10 to $20 (please support the sliding scale policy by paying more than $10 if you are able!)

Tickets onsale now at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/290948

Her Body Is Not Your Playground: Why the Photoshopped Frida Nudes Are Not Okay

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:01:00 -0700

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National Coming Out Day: It's Not Just for Queerness Anymore!

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:15:00 -0700

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How To Know If You Are White

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:17:00 -0700

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Genocide shouldn’t get its own holiday.

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:02:55 -0700

Genocide shouldn’t get its own holiday.

The Kreayshawn Complex: Cultural Appropriation As Counter-Cultural Expression

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:21:00 -0700

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It Gets Fatter! Fat Queers of Color Take on Fat Phobia in Our Communities

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:23:00 -0700

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photo courtesy mianakano.com

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:33:37 -0700

photo courtesy mianakano.com

Shocking Revelation: Mitt Romney Is A Rich Asshole

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:39:00 -0700

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If we are going to vote for Obama; if we really believe that Romney is a much worse choice; if we...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:39:00 -0700

If we are going to vote for Obama; if we really believe that Romney is a much worse choice; if we believe that progressive issues like abortion rights and gay marriage deserve more attention and resistance than foreign policies that allow for the murder of children and innocents, the redefinition of war, and the merging of banks with the state; if we are committed, no matter what, to casting our votes for Obama--okay. But let’s please do so with our eyes open. Let’s please do the research and understand who and what we are voting for, including the things we may not want to know, the things that might break our hearts if we knew them. Let’s please be honest with ourselves about our choice and why we are making that choice. If we take the time to educate ourselves on the realities of the practices of this administration and we still choose it, with all of that critical analysis standing alongside us in the voting booth, with our eyes and our minds wide open, then I have no argument. But it does not serve us, or the future of this country, or the future of this world, to vote with ignorance and denial in our hearts, and with our heads in the sand.

Mia McKenzie
Black Girl Dangerous

See Your Fave Black Girl Dangerous Writers In Person This Fall

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:50:00 -0700

Like Black Girl Dangerous? Want to experience the work of our smart, talented writers in real life? Come out to these readings and shows! We’d love to see you!

MIA MCKENZIE

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012, 7-9pm

Black Girl Dangerous: Mia McKenzie on Being A Queer Black Femme Nerd in a Ridiculous World

University of Wisconsin at Madison

FREE

Thursday, October 18th, 2012, 7:30 to 9pm

Black Girl Dangerous Presents: Scary Queer! A Halloween Storytelling Event

The Living Room Project, 1919 Market St., Oakland

https://www.facebook.com/events/358925894143873/

$5-$10 sliding scale

Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 7:30-8:30pm

Black Girl Dangerous Presents: A Reading with Mia McKenzie

Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia

FREE

Thursday, November 8 and Friday, November 9, 2012

Agen(c)y: Nonprofit Dreams and Disasters

La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA

Doors/pre-show @ 7:30, show @ 8 for real!

$10-$20 sliding scale NOTAFLOF

About Mia.

THE LADY MS. VAGINA JENKINS

(photo by EPLI MADE)

Saturday Sept 15

Beauty and The Butch

A Butch Voices Conference Fundraiser

City of Refuge, SF, CA

http://beautyandthebutch.eventbrite.com/

Friday Sept 21

Under Fleur De Lis’ Big Top

An Erotic Circus

SupperClub SF.

https://www.facebook.com/events/389347431131070/?ref=ts

KIM CROSBY

September 19, 2012 - Ottawa, ON

Featured Performer @ Carleton University’s Consent Is Sexy Week

10:15 pm Carleton University: CS Committee Rooster’s

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October 6, 2012 - Toronto, ON

The Revival: Lesbian Livingroom Poetry Tour

https://www.facebook.com/events/374587612612927/

JANANI

Saturday, September 22, 2012, 7PM

Poetry 101

HUB Cultural Center

University of Washington, Seattle