sexy spicy love magic

racialicious is one of our favorite spots to hang out, but this post is one after our own heart.

from ms plaid's razor sharp analysis to her brief but poignant observation on using "voodoo" in vain, we couldn't agree more. 

here's a sample:

Comparatively speaking, race play has an unvarnished honesty about it; this particular organization and its programs work with some racial disingenuousness under the guise of integration, of wanting to “make everyone ”comfortable” so they can fulfill their “wildest fantasies.” I’m not sure about who exactly is supposed to be “everyone” because, even though the site may be open to different sexual and gender identities, the majority of photos on the site are of white people or very, very light-skinned PoCs. And just saying you want PoCs to join doesn’t make the wish so, especially when the pictures and texts say a thousand contradictory and uncomfortable things.

go on and read the rest here.

stay woke, y'all.

in the waiting room...

jeff buckley
"everybody here wants you"

lyrics embedded in video

...and a piggyback

speaking of the collaborative creative efforts of women, check out goddesses rising. you'll be better off for it.

~:~ love & sugar! ~:~

quickie!

just discovered the cliterati.

if the name isn't delicious enough, the blog is full of information written by several brilliant women. what more could you want?

a {somewhat} new project

greetings, beloveds!  a brief announcement...

in the name of evolution and aesthetic control, your proprietress has found a new home for her poetic things.  writing from the seat of bliss has moved from myspace to blogspot.

the myspace page will remain as a way to keep in touch with people, places and ideas that haven't migrated to twitter or elsewhere, there just won't be any fancy blogs to see.

hope you all are well and feeling wonderful.

bless,

~:~ ms. bliss ~:~

in the waiting room...

"bad habits"
maxwell

Lately, Lady
Make me queasy
Don't speak no sound
I want you to prove it to me in the nude
Addicted to the way you move

Honey, if anything ever should change in you
Don't worry I'm standing still
I'm moving with the right wheel

This is the highest cost,
Take you and make you off
Live you and leave you lost
Will you forgive me?

Asked out all over town
Drags you and keeps you down
Two times in a day around
Will you forgive me?

I can't control the feeling
Girl cause I know you're here
I fill you from the floor to the ceiling
Girl, I'll feel you when you comb your hair

Lady, when we lock it low (ah, ah)
We get together, it's an overdose
I'm slippin', I'm here, I'm on my knees
I feels my heart's about to explode

This is the highest cost,
Take you and make you off
Live you and leave you lost
Will you forgive me?

Asked out all over town
Drags you and keeps you down
Two times in a day around
Will you forgive me?

Baby, to tell the truth
When I'm sober I jones for you
When it's over I'm overdue (huh)
Girl, it's no one as bad as (no one as bad as you)

You got me, you got me
You got me
Slippin around with it
Around with it, awhile

You got me sick with this love, baby
I'm so, I'm so in love
I can't come down

This is the highest cost, oh
Take you and make you off
Live you and leave you lost (baby)
Will you forgive me? (will you forgive me?)

Asked out all over town (ah)
Drags you and keeps you down (and I know)
Two times in a day around
Will you forgive me?

You're my bad habit baby
Oh my, you're taking
My soul, down to the level
Can't escape the way you got me locked up baby
I gotta break from you, break from you
Break from you

This is the highest cost
Take you and make you off
Live you and leave you lost
Will you forgive me?

Asked out all over town
Drags you and keeps you down
Two times in a day around
Will you forgive me?

Will you forgive me
Will you forgive me
Will you forgive me

Will you forgive me
Asked out all over town
Drags you and keeps you down
Two times in a day around
Will you forgive me?

I can't control the feelin' (feelin', feelin', feelin', feelin') huh uh
I can't control the feelin' (feelin', feelin', feelin', feelin') ha ha
I can't control the feelin' (feelin', feelin', feelin', feelin', feelin')
I can't control the feelin' (feelin', feelin', feelin', feelin')

In my soul, soul
In my soul, soul

quickie!

my monthly cycles is the newest addition to our goodies section, and a good way to help you celebrate, love and honor your cycle.

the site helps you track your moon {menstrual} and fertility cycles electronically. you can set up email reminders with a subject heading of your choosing, and calendars can be customized to include moon phases.

happy tracking!

baby makes me

the woman who brought you the black./womyn. project and fly poet staceyann chin are collaborating on a new project, baby makes me.

here is their call for participants and support, as seen on sparkle's blog...

PLEASE POST ON YOUR BLOGS, SITES, LISTS etc. Help us reach the folks we need.

Many of you have already heard about our film, Baby Makes me. For you, this is an update. But for the folks who have not heard Tiona and I are making a documentary together.

For years, I have wanted to become a mother. But the timing has never been quite right. Either my partners weren’t ready, or I was scared, or I couldn’t find a donor or something. There was always something. By the time I rolled into 35, I was tired of being afraid, tired of waiting for the right woman with whom it would be the right time, tired of watching every Christmas roll over another Birthday, tired of watching my peers get knocked up and months later appear with the most amazing little bundle of potential—I was tired of waiting and ready to make the leap, and I was ready to make it alone.

I began the research with great heart—only to discover that there were little no resources for women who either wanted to, or had to embark on the journey of motherhood in the solo. There were one or two essays and a few books on artificial insemination, and some were even directed at lesbians—but most, if not all assumed that the mother would be operating from inside of a partnership, be that partnership heterosexual or homosexual.

The idea for the film came out of a conversation with Tiona to film the pregnancy/labor, assuming that there would be one—because no one, least of all me, knows if my body will cooperate in doing such a thing as conceiving. I envisioned Tiona asking a couple of heartfelt questions and spinning the light to create a high-end home-movie I could show my child at eighteen. She agreed and we began to flesh out some ideas. That conversation, coupled with the lack of resource material out there spurred the project now known as Baby Makes Me.

Baby Makes Me, a feature-length documentary, will explore the challenges and triumphs of Single Motherhood, particularly in the lives of women of color, lesbians and women who make a conscious choice to be mothers in the absence of intimate/romantic partnerships with men.

The film will use as its narrative skeleton, the journey of activist/writer/performer, Staceyann Chin, as she navigates her personal choices with reference to motherhood. Author of the memoir, The Other Side of Paradise, Chin now brings her talents to the medium of film as writer and Executive Producer.

The Director, Tiona McClodden, is a champion of promoting positive images of women in media. Her last film, “Black./womyn.:conversations…”, garnered much respect in both accolades and awards. She now brings her attention to the issue of women and motherhood.

It is our intent to interview a series of women from all the demographic cross-sections. Issues of financial, ethical, medical, cultural, and political relevance will be fore-grounded. We hope that clinics, hospitals, families, children of Black lesbians, straight Black women who want children, mothers of gay women who lament the loss of grandchildren when they discover their daughters are gay, and anybody who seeks to have a clearer picture of the family that includes gay women will see that our lives go on, that women who are single, be they lesbian, or Black or poor, can and do have babies, and that we are simply another group of people who live and laugh and grow. We hope to paint the subjects in the film as human and likable characters who, though they are dealing with slightly different challenges than the women we traditionally see as mothers, are not very different from any other group of people considering parenthood.

We are going to need all the help we can get. We need help in reaching out to folks who would like to be interviewed; other single mothers, women who have been inseminated, women who are thinking about it, women who work in the medical field, women who work in the administrative world of policy etc. We are on the hunt for the all the voices that could represent our story in the film.

We have recently been awarded a grant from ASTREA Lesbian Foundation for Justice and are set to move forward. We write to you now, in the hope that you will want to be involved in this groundbreaking project in whatever capacity you choose: we need space to host fundraisers and screening and other events connected to the film. We need people to fundraise, to promote the film, to host community talks, to suggest topics for discussion in the film—we need to secure additional investors, we need the help of people who are experts in the business of making films, and we need the counter-perspective of people who have never made a film. We are hoping to make this a community effort; from start to finish we want the ideas to be representative of the various factions in our diverse village of the women who mother our children. If you are sure you are unable to do any of the above, we only ask that you make room for our fliers, questionnaires, invitations, and other promotional materials for the film.

We would be honored if you would join us as we attempt to break more ceilings, level more walls to make room those of us who are too frequently left out of the history and imagination of the world we live in. We look forward to a spirited journey with you, from the opening shot to the ending credits—complete with your name listed among the most stalwart of our supporters.

Thanks again to the women who have already offered assistance. We look forward to your being a part of our process.

Staceyann Chin
Executive Producer/Writer, “Baby Makes Me”
Tiona McClodden
Director/Producer, “Baby Makes Me”

Please send all inquiries and requests to: babymakesme@gmail.com

Gbe rere ko ni olu-gbe-rere!

"Give me Good Things from the Great One who gives Good Things!"

enjoy this beautiful video of women celebrating the yoruba mother/ocean goddess, yemonja.

quickie!

follow the southern honeys on their journey...a powerful collective of sistas creating, traveling and manifesting together!