Eclectic Explorations of Educational and Experiential Frontiers Through Writing
Traditionally, NYC Fashion Week impressed me as an exclusive event. The crème de la crème reveal and show off their dernier cri and totemic textiles. A-listers are awash in worship from photographic flashes. The illuminati offer praises like flowers at feet of fellow elite. Those of us who have no anchor in the sea of … Continue reading Fellowship at 2012 NYC Fashion Week: Sisters Celebrating Sisters
In the recent blogpost titled “Black Canadian Like Me,” Alyson Renaldo suggests a contention between kindred of shared borders—Black Canadians and African Americans. She recycles the “Black on Black” crime of people of shared African Diasporic experience disliking and distancing themselves from each other, suggesting that cultural cluelessness, assimilation, and a “lack of reaching back” … Continue reading Looking into the Mirror of a Great Divide: How We Define Ourselves at the Expense of Others
tanya manning-yarde, phd 