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Keepin’ it real vs Breaking down the Stereotypes

renee — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:11:21 +0000

Fashionable Michelle has a new, beautiful baby girl who sleeps well, leaving Michelle a little time each day to keep her friends abreast of important goings on on the NYTimes magazine. She sent me the link to the article on PRECIOUS.

Good reading. Interesting article. I could riff on so much in it. I’ve never read [...]

So much to say

renee — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:16:32 +0000

I haven’t been posting here for a while. I’ve been more preoccupied with my career so I have been posting on my other blog when I can squeeze the time.

But I have had so many blog posts in my head for fashionablecouple, I don’t know where to begin. There are book reviews, movie reviews [...]

Not black enough. Too white.

julian_l — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:50:39 +0000

some names have been changed to protect the innocent.

partially in response to: http://fashionablecouple.com/?p=95

D…How can you be the ‘whitest’ black person? Have you ever been on time for anything?

It seems that if you’re not upholding the stereotypes (unwed parent, broken English, gang colours etc.) then what’s said about young, black males is that they’re the ‘whitest’ [...]

Who is a fashionable couple?

dwight_g — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:42:45 +0000

“I didn’t think I could be fashionable without being part of an interracial couple!” - Yanique Smith

How many people from our generation are able to find someone from their own ethnic and cultural background to marry! [...]

Vulcan love

renee — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:50:15 +0000

My whole family has always loved Star Trek – from the original right though (except for Enterprise – what were they thinking). The Utopian ideal of Gene Roddenberry’s universe was powerful. It’s not like race didn’t matter, just the paradigm was different. We were part of the human race, not black our white. It was [...]

The next wave of the civil rights fight

renee — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:00:35 +0000

I am very grateful that more members of the LGBT community didn’t bash Obama or the Democratic Party for not stepping up to the plate to criticize discrimination against them. I am grateful that there wasn’t more blame on the Black community for voting for Proposition 8 and similar legislation across the States.

Black Beauty

renee — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:18:44 +0000

When the members of the mainstream culture decide that a black woman is pretty, the gushing about her beauty goes to the extreme. Like she is an exotic beauty that is so extremely beautiful that only the uncultured could deny. A pretty dark-skinned girl is never just pretty or cute. She’s extremely beautiful or invisible.

At [...]

It’s been a week and I still love Obama

renee — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:17:07 +0000

Call me a bandwagoneer, but I love Barak Obama. There are so many reasons to love him that pundits more eloquent than I can give reasons from myriad socio-political-acadmic-business perspectives.

I will add one more.

I love the fact that Obama has a dark-skinned wife.

Further to my recent post where I talked about black men dating less than [...]

What I aspire to in the blog world

renee — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:21:52 +0000

Sweets has introduced me to the Racialicious – a blog about “the about the intersection of race and pop culture.” Thoughtful and irreverent and almost always on point.

While Racialicious.com is doing much of what I wish I was, there’s still a place for fashionablecouple. Race, in my opinion, is really only noteworthy in relation to someone [...]

Flaming Iguanas by Erika Lopez

renee — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:00:00 +0000

If I waited until I finished a book to share my thoughts on it it could take me a year. I have three books on the go. I now drive to work so there is absolutely no consistent alone time to read.

I also didn’t want to wait to talk about Flaming Iguanas by Erika Lopez [...]