Sideshow Bob, Oh Honey!

This is a much less Simpson-y version of...

LATELY, my hair has been looking like this and I really just don't know how to get it to lie down. Maybe I should just purchase a whole bag of hair clips and force it down! Solution. 

PHONY 2012: Start-up the Propaganda Machine

This is wonderful. I was thinking about this Kony 2010 campaign and how ridiculous it has been. Marketing bracelets and T-shirts. Please. It's all part of a shady elite agenda that those who are not practicing critical thinking will fall for.



I love the way, man in yellow T-shirt cut his sentence in half and just split when he realised people were throwing rocks around. Classic black person reaction! Just RUN! Oh, how I love my people. 

Lucky Girl

Still "Bloomin' Brilliant"

Love the natural hair, she rocks but getting snubbed for the Oscar is really disappointing. Would have been great to see a dark-skinned woman win top honours at this year's Academy Awards but yet again, they give it to Meryl Streep. Ah, Hollywood. Either way. Another favourite of mine, Octavia Spencer was honoured. They're both amazing and there is something to remember in all of this. Hollywood is still a business run by white dudes and that is exactly why brilliant actors whose skin just happens to be a darker hue are being denied what is owed to them. Awards.

Who on Earth is This?

DISGRACEFUL! Did not even recognise her. Time to remind myself of why dark-skin is wonderful again!

Tumblr link here to wonderful tumblr page here!

Don't You Forget About Me

Sally Talker: Keep Propagating...

Amarillo - Gorillaz

Chipolopolo!

Even though they beat my favourite Black Stars, I am still more delighted about their victory. Well done ZAMBIA!! Agh, my heart. Seriously.

I love how they start running onto the pitch the second the final whistle blows even though the ball was still in play.

Bad Girls Do It Well

Hairs were raised on the blades of my shoulders as I watched this utterly brilliant feminist rebellion from one of my favourite women - M.I.A. God bless her for her creative and courageous life-force. She is a voice that shan't be removed. The music biz would be so much drier without this marvellous Sri Lankan lady.

The originality she brings to her music, the swag with which she carries herself and that unsmiling gorgeous brown face of hers are really something to be reckoned with. She represents true artistry in my books and this is one reason I fell in love with her sound and vibe the moment I laid my eyes on that 'Paper Planes' video in 2008. Always excited to see what there is to come from this one.

Lekgoa v 2.0

There are some boy-band inspired moves, vernac spoken from the mouth of a white boy and synth-beats that make you think about how cheap the studio they recorded in must be. All in all, it's somewhat entertaining as it carries along a smidgen of shock factor to it.

Summer Camp... Powerhouse Style

Alright so last week for three days I hung out with fellow youngsters like myself who are on fire, I mean BLAZING for God and it was an experience and a half. We went out to a resort called Habonim, located in Oonrus within close vicinity to Hermanus. The fun element was definitely present with some tribal challenges survivor style and the chilling waters of the Atlantic numbing toes and fingers everywhere, that's without mentioning sand that was impossible to rub off of skin. Yet there was more to it than just this.

I experienced an encounter with God that so powerful it made me think twice about the manner in which I have been conducting my daily affairs. I was told that my perspective would change immensely as a result of attending this camp but still did not expect it to happen until it did.

There is a certain peace that manifests within you when you place your trust in a Higher Power, a power I call God the Creator of the Universe. The moment you obtain it, there is no turning back. I could not live life thinking in a worldy way after knowing exactly what it means to know that your entire existence has meaning and that you are loved more than you can even imagine. God is most certainly great!

Kepler Does it Again

Some four days ago, the exo-planet searching machine, Kepler, discovered 26 new extrasolar planets orbiting their parent stars at orbital trajectories tighter than that which Venus moves along. This would mean they are far too hot for habitation of life as we know it. Thus concluding, no extrasolar humans once again.

Two Best Friends.

"Where my ASTROnauts in the building?"

I really like this kid. He is very cool, indeed.

Ms Pillay on Point

Adapted from a racialicious article, Verashni Pillay speaks about her aversion to Cape Town and its subtle racial tensions.

What drove me slowly mad was how racism was an elephant in the room that you could not talk about. How white Capetonians would cringe and turn away when the topic came up, or look at you in blank confusion and ask why you were so obsessed with race. It was how, yes, there is racism everywhere in South Africa but in Cape Town it is not possible to even discuss it. And how Cape Town, with its pristine beaches, its lofty Parliament buildings and history of activism, was somehow supposed to be better than that.

Memory Lane

Reflexion: 2011

One of my greatest lessons this year has been one about forgiveness. Holding onto offenses is such a bad idea and a time-sapper too. The moment you let go, is when you liberate yourself and free your mind to creative thoughts and the wisdom you gain from adverse circumstances.
Discipline is another thing. I really need to stop being lazy and get a little more serious about things, academic and work-related things.
As for music, haven't really been in tune with the goings on and to be honest, music has been a bore ever since M.I.A. stopped making those bizarre dance tunes that made my life but at least we have a female rapper doing big things.

This year, these two song releases just did it for me.

Kind of reminds me of myself when I was 18/9.



I disliked this song when I first saw the video but when I heard the bass properly and the line "Mack the dudes up", I immediately took a liking for it. That was Nicki's feminist moment, she got me there. Her voice is still quite an annoyance however and the Barbie thing is disgraceful but good for her for being subversive.

My Woman of the Year: Issa Rae

For starting a show that millions can relate to...

Girls and the Numbers

Found at Gender Across Borders this article deals with the issue of the so-called "math"-gap which seems to prevail at the majority of higher learning institutions all over the globe. The numbers of women achieving highly in college math are far lower than they are for men and the reasons are probably more social than they are biological. The position is that female ability in math is simply inferior and all arguments that attempt to explain the matter noting the patriarchal ways in which the world and history have been structured are ignored.

It seems to me that there are problems with the male attitudes toward women attempting to build careers in science and math related fields. Maintaining a patriarchal attitude, males have a tendency to underestimate the ability, logic and thinking skills of their female counterparts instead of observing them as equals they instead see them as inferior in some way. The reasons for doing this may be far more complex than simply stating the prevailing sexist belief system but this sort of behaviour only seems to fall under this umbrella of gendered discrimination.

For instance, this year I had to deal with the annoyance of a male colleague who pestered me with insinuations that I am sad or that there was something wrong (emotionally) because I often chose to maintain a serious expression when during lecture times. Though there were others in our classes, boys, who spent most of their time quietly pondering to themselves, unsmiling and stern, he did not bother hector any of these individuals with the same meaningless assumptions. I was one of the few female students in the class. Was his choice to bother asking such foolish questions a result of my gender. Does he assume that a woman wearing a serious expression is suffering emotional turmoil rather than going through the motions of thinking about stuff? It could very well be that this person was suffering some sort of depression of their own and may have chosen to project them as a defense mechanism. Women being as unable to control one's own emotions as he probably imagines them are a great target for this projection. Makes sense in the patriarchal mind doesn't it? Then again, the dude was short too so there could also be another round of insecurities as a result of that.

I also had a tutor who seemed to be much more adamant to question the actions of female students in our physics computational tutorial class than the male student's as if to say: "You're female, good chance you may not have a clue what you're doing you need guidance." There have been male students in my vicinity that have joked about race and gender issues and the one thing they all have in common is neither of them occupy positions in society that would accord them any form of discrimination. In other words, they are privileged and male - CLUELESS of the ways in which society discriminates against, punishes and oppresses those that do not act in accordance with their gender-related and racial roles.