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Shit White Girls Say... To Black Girls: Funny and Important Social Commentary

1/7/12 9:00am by lainad
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Franchesca Ramsey, via YouTube

When Shit White Girls Say…To Black Girls landed on YouTube this week, it seemed that thousands, hell, hundreds of thousands of black women across the globe cried, Hallelujah! and then doubled over with laughter.  Read more >

Kwanzaa – A Celebration of African Culture

12/26/11 7:54am by lainad
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Kwanzaa via Flickr

[Editor's Note: The seven-day festival of Kwanzaa begins on December 26. What's Kwanzaa, you ask? Well, read on! Laina Dawes explains the basics of this celebration of African culture. --Grace]  Read more >

Awkward Black Girl: Do We Ignore Some "Isms?"

12/13/11 6:21pm by lainad
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Awkward Black Girl, by actingrl11 via YouTube

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is a wildly popular web series that chronicles the life of J (played by co-creator Issa Rae), a twenty-something Black woman who lives and works in Los Angeles. J has a difficult time fitting in with her peers, and she writes violent and over-the-top misogynist rap lyrics as a way to vent her frustration for not being able to openly express her feelings about her single life, her crappy job, her almost crippling shyness, and her awkwardness.  Read more >

Fans of The Hunger Games: Enthusiastic Readers or Bigoted Fandom?

11/21/11 9:11am by lainad
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Hunger Games Rue poster, by Lions Gate Films

Based on a wildly popular young-adult science fiction book trilogy, The Hunger Games is one of the most anticipated movies hitting theaters in 2012. But months before the movie's premiere, the casting of the film is stirring one of 2011's hottest debates about race in Hollywood. The debate was stoked up again recently, as The Hunger Games trailers and posters were released to the public.  Read more >

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Full Name
Laina Dawes
Member Since
February 2006
About Me: 

Laina Dawes is a contributing editor for Blogher and is also a music journalist whose writings can be found at Exclaim! Canada and Hellbound. She also has her own blog at Writing is Fighting. She resides in Toronto, Canada.

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