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<\/a>Across the web, Black women are producing incredible content on a wide range of topics. We’ve come across these 8 pieces by Black women that deserve your attention.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, slowly but surely, small tasks turned into big ordeals. For instance, washing my hair was the ultimate chore. What would normally take 45 minutes was now a two-hour session.<\/span><\/p>\n Then there was the judgment from the natural-hair community. \u201cOh you\u2019re a straight natural,\u201d they quipped. \u201cJust wear it curly or wear a braid out. Why be natural and still straighten your hair?\u201d And, I could never do enough for my newly brittle hair because there was always some new\u00a0home remedy\u00a0that would fill-in-the-blank my hair better. I couldn\u2019t keep up with all the organic products, and baking soda rinses made me gag!\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Is the separation of eroticism and feminism a problem?<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Sabia McCoy-Torres<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This history, while specific to African-Americans, is translatable to the historic forming of feminist personas as they\u00a0apply\u00a0to white women as well. The fight for women\u2019s equality and safety has been closely concerned with tearing down the objectification of women in its many oppressive forms. What has followed in result is a sensitivity to women\u2019s behaviors that can be thought of as coming from our historic objectification and victimization. Sex, eroticism, sexuality, all\u00a0benefits\u00a0to men and so frequently at the center of women\u2019s objectification, then are demonized as deriving from a male agenda or seen as a response to the male agenda. The desire to express eroticism and sexuality are inherently a part of women as well and also to our\u00a0benefit, but history seems to have pitted open expression as taboo and against the feminist agenda.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Women\u2019s History Month: Remembering Pauli Murray \u2014 a heroine who fought \u2018Jane Crow\u2019<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Blair Kelley<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In a manner that echoes the fight against the racialized application of \u201cStand Your Ground\u201d laws today, Murray organized in support of Odell Waller, a black sharecropper who faced the death penalty in Virginia after killing his white landlord in self defense. Murray\u2019s work for the Waller case drew her further into the public eye as an advocate for the movement, and convinced her that she needed to study law in order to do the work she was called to do. On the strength of her activism and a letter of recommendation from Thurgood\u00a0Marshall\u00a0himself, Murray embarked on a legal\u00a0career\u00a0at Howard University.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cI Love Being A Mommy!!!\u201d On Shanesha Taylor & Black Motherhood in the Age of Mass Incarceration<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Prison Culture<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n While I had imagined Shanesha sitting in her jail cell missing her children like crazy before, it now feels more real to me. I have seen photographs that appear to be of her children. They are sitting in the middle of presents with a Christmas tree in the background. They are smiling. It appears that she also has an older school-aged daughter. How confused and scared must her children be? Where\u2019s mommy? they must be asking. Every single hour of every single day that she remains locked in a cage away from them is an indictment of all of us. It is simply cruel.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n 15 BLACK AND LATINA WOMEN WHO NEED BIOPICS ASAP<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Starrhene Rhett-Rocque<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t seem like Hollywood is ever going take the idea of creating more female biopics seriously\u2013unless it\u2019s Cleopatra for the 15th time, played by a woman with alabaster skin (shade). However, there are so many diverse and dynamic women who have impacted pop culture and society in major ways hiding in plain site. They need proper commemoration, damnit! So, here\u2019s our list of awesome women who should have biopics, just in time to end Women\u2019s History Month with a big fat salute!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Interracial Relationships in the BDSM Lifestyle<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Valerie_JeanC<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The interesting thing about being in “The Life” is you never know who is in it with you. Your Pastor could be a Dom. Your best friend could be a sub. Being such a sub-culture, many in the BDSM lifestyle hide this side of themselves for a multitude of reasons. It wasn\u2019t until I joined that I started dissecting how people spoke and carried themselves. Soon, I was able to correctly guess which of my friends — and family members! — were in “The Life”. I immediately gravitated towards them, feeling a new kinship and bond. One of these\u00a0individuals\u00a0was friend from\u00a0college, a Dom, who actually had quite a few number of subs serving Him at the time. He was excited (I\u2019m sure for a number of reasons *wink wink*) that I had joined “The Life”. He wanted to know who was this man that had done this to me. I pulled up Facebook and showed Him. He sat back in his chair and grimaced.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n 30 Years a Bitch: Ending a relationship with rap music<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Bougie Black Girl<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Rap makes everyone dance and smile but was quick to publicly humiliate me and call Black women a bitch or a hoe. \u00a0When it did, I purposely ignored it. I reassured myself not to worry, rap music, just like my partner was just kidding. I mean rap didn\u2019t mean to call me out of my name even though it has done it over and over and over again. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t really talking about me even though it was talking about me. Because rap loves me, right?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nWhy Natural Hair Wasn’t for Me<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Deena Campbell<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n\n