Quirky Black Girls

Embrace the Quirky!

for Black Girls who refuse boxes

QBG Files

The Combahee River Collective Statement
combahee.pdf

Praise the Lorde!!!
Need: A Chorale for Black Women's Voices
need.pdf
Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
lordeusesofanger.pdf
Eye to Eye: Black Women Hatred and Anger
lordeyetoeye.pdf
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
lordepoweroftheerotic.pdf
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The QBG Manifesta

Because Audre Lorde looks different in every picture ever taken of her. Because Octavia Butler didn't care. Because Erykah Badu is a patternmaster. Because Macy Gray pimped it and Janelle Monáe was ready.
Resolved. Quirky black girls wake up ready to wear a tattered society new on our bodies, to hold fragments of art, culture and trend in our hands like weapons against conformity, to walk on cracks instead of breaking our backs to fit in the mold.

We're here, We're Quirky, Get used to it!

.... Quirky Black girls don't march to the beat of our own drum; we hop, skip, dance, and move to rhythms that are all our own. We make our own drums out of empty lunchboxes, full imaginations and number 3 pencils.

Quirky Black girls are not quirky because they like white shit; rather they understand that because they like it, it is not the sole province of whiteness.

Quirky black girls are the answer to the promise that black means everything, birthing and burning a new world every time.

Sound it out. Quirky, like queer and key, different and priceless, turning and open. Black, not be lack but black one word shot off the tongue like blap, bam, black. Girl, like the curl in a hand turning towards itself to snap, write, hold or emphasize. Quirky. Black. Girl. You see us. Act like you know.

We demand that our audiences say "yes-sir-eee" if they agree and we answer our own question "What good do your words do, if they don't understand you?" by speaking anyway, even if our words are "bruised and misunderstood."

Quirky black girls are hot!
Whether you're ready to see it or not.

Quirky means rejecting a particular type of "value," a certain unreadiness for consumption and subsumption in an economy of black heterocapital. This means that Quirky Black Girls act independently of dominant social norms or standards of beauty. So fierce that others may not be able to appreciate us just yet.

No matter what age we are, we hold onto that girlhood drive for adventure, love for friends, independent spirit, wacky sense of humor, and hope for the future.

Quirky Black Girls resist boxes in favor of over lapping circles with permeable membranes that allow them to ebb and flow through their multiple identities.

Quirky Black Girls- Embrace the quirky!

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Notes

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Created by Fazette Jul 6, 2008 at 5:12pm. Last updated by Moya May 4.

To the creative folks!

FYI---Please forward widely.

The Diverse Voices Project III, with up to $100,000 in co-production funding available to emerging filmmakers, is P.O.V.'s initiative to support stories about diverse communities. This co-production initiative is dedicated to supporting emerging filmmakers. Filmmakers with a prior national broadcast credit are not eligible for the Diverse Voices Project. Filmmakers who submit a film for DVP funding will be notified of the status of their submission in earl… Continue

Created by Moya Oct 23, 2008 at 1:15pm. Last updated by Moya Oct. 23, 2008.

QBG Blog

Hey QBG Fam!

Look at us growing and expanding every day!

To share our QBG'dom with the world, please consider joining the QBG blog. Cross post from your own blog, explore new topics and post more pics!

Please email us at quirkyblackgirls@gmail.com if interested!

Thanks for being,

QBG

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Created by Moya Jul 9, 2008 at 10:26am. Last updated by Moya Jul. 9, 2008.

Party Evite Copy

Hey all!

I wanted to share the text from our QBG party. Feel free to take it and (re)create and (re)vise(ion)!

Black. Bright. Ready.   The Quirky Black Girl Crew, in their growing pursuit of a molten, possible and robust blackness invite you to bring light, heat,  groove and beauty to a summer jam inspired by our most plentiful resources, heat, blackness, brilliance and energy.Continue

Created by Moya Jul 6, 2008 at 7:56pm. Last updated by Moya Jul. 6, 2008.

 
 

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