Gender Bent's Blog Posts Tagged 'afro-punk' (5)

Dorm Room Diaries: I'd hook up with an Afro-punk

The Afro-punk hook up posts received some of the highest member feed-back of any submission we've posted on the site. That got us thinking...1) we should do something on Afro-punk to get people hooking up (we're working on it) and 2) we wanted to hear more personal stories from our members to see what their dating history has been. Luckily for us, our residential womanist… Continue

Added by Gender Bent on November 22, 2010 at 2:09pm — 13 Comments

Gay Morehouse Students React to VIBE Article

When VIBE magazine published an article called "Mean Girls of Morehouse" this month, it was undoubtably instigating debate and conversation regarding the gay community at the all male school in Atlanta, GA. The article profiles a…

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Added by Gender Bent on October 18, 2010 at 5:00pm — 6 Comments

Dorm Room Diaries of a Fem Nerd: Outlaw My Middle Finger, France

In this week's installment of Dorm Room Diaries of a Fem Nerd, our residential Fem Nerd, Twyla Cummings lashes out on France's newly passed law banning Muslim women from wearing full…

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Added by Gender Bent on October 11, 2010 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Dorm Room Diary of a Fem Nerd: Ain't I a Senior?

Twyla is back at it again with another video segment of the Dorm Room Diaries of a Femnerd. In this segment, Twyla calls attention to a particular Title IX lawsuit in progress that really has her blood boiling this week. She also drops some knowledge on a shocking military policy. Video after jump.

Dorm Room Diary of a Fem Nerd: Ain't I a Senior?

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Added by Gender Bent on August 27, 2010 at 2:00pm — 5 Comments

A girly girl’s perspective to being punktacular

My favorite color is pink, I never miss a nail appointment, and I’ve got enough lace panties to last me a lifetime. Where am I going with this? Let’s just say some folks try hard to revoke my afro-punk card. I feel the cold hard stares every time I attend a local concert decked out in my usual wares, texting away on my blackberry covered in Hello Kitty stickers. “What is this bourgeois bitch doing here?” girls whisper to one another. In a room full of ripped denims and spikes,…

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Added by Gender Bent on August 9, 2010 at 4:50pm — 24 Comments