tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44631518228290708822024-02-20T00:11:02.889-05:00OUT BLACK VOICES Out Black Voices presents a broad range of topics for the purposes of generating and engaging in authentic discussions about art, gender, sexuality, race, class, religion and culture. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-50600887475381757692015-11-12T21:07:00.000-05:002015-11-20T11:16:48.030-05:00My HOME, My RAGE<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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i am not a visitor
this is My home
this space of love
a shelter for which
i am
grateful
it is Mine
i own it
born with it
i am not a visitor
but this home is not always
sunny
it is dark
shades drawn in fear
people falling around me
snatched
forsaken
this home has pain
in this skin
there is rage
black rage
in My home
that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-22717383494789787532015-10-28T15:47:00.000-04:002015-10-28T14:02:44.651-04:00ARTIST CHRONICLES: From Darkness to Inspiration
In moments of self-doubt, I have
often spoken of being in a rut and needing to find my way to the light of creating art. As a
writer, there have been times when I have fallen into a personal black hole and
my projects lagged. In these moments I have struggled and still struggle with
working every day to deepen my art practice and to move my projects closer to
completion. I have been known to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-14690226260975722252015-10-15T21:11:00.002-04:002015-10-15T21:29:49.579-04:00On Being an Artist: The Struggle is Real
To refer to oneself as an artist is
considered by many to be pompous and self-aggrandizing. How dare does one
ascribe to a title that is connected to a practice that the end result is in so
many ways subjective? But to acknowledge and proclaim that one is an artist,
while bold, is a recognition of a deeply rooted desire that is not only second nature, but boils and permeates within theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-46957508815449977182015-07-04T09:22:00.001-04:002015-10-15T13:51:22.364-04:00 What to the Black and Queer Woman is the 4th of July?
The evil that men do, lives after them, The good is oft-interred with their bones.
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Today is the 4th of July and I see red,
white and blue everywhere, but still I wonder, where is my independence? Where, in
the madness of domestic terrorism, am I and my people free from targeted
racism? Where is this equality claimed to have been sanctioned Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-21869455715381544852015-03-03T23:53:00.000-05:002015-03-03T23:53:28.711-05:00Preparing Myself for Greatness!
Girl in a Tie Relocates and Evolves!
photo courtesy of Leslie Cunningham
On December 31, 2014 this Girl in a Tie relocated back to Richmond, Virginia. Since my arrival, I have had many people ask me why I returned. Some understood when I said I had grown tired of the city hustle and desired a different life at a slower pace, others wondered what I would do with my 'out' self in Richmond. Well,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-88795166468634127472014-09-21T14:22:00.000-04:002014-09-21T14:22:13.860-04:00
Three Haikus and a Message to Nikki Minaj
Patricia R.
Corbett
Dear Nikki,
I was seriously angry and
frustrated when I was accidentally exposed to your “Anaconda” video. I want to put this as delicately possible because
you are someone’s daughter and so am I. As an
educator and mentor to young women, I do not wish to hurt you, but instead help
to enlighten you Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-9668367460418419782014-09-09T09:33:00.001-04:002014-09-09T16:45:56.951-04:00
What was
Once Lost:
Re-lighting the Lamp of Your Soul
When I was younger, space and time appeared to
move slowly. I danced through life making a series of bad choices countered at
times by good karma. I did everything I thought other people wanted me to do
and beat myself up when I made choices that disappointed them. I was also not
genuine nor living an authentic life. I was ‘Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-60051601786156820422014-08-17T14:40:00.000-04:002014-08-17T22:13:01.056-04:00JUSTaSISTA Re-Launches: How I Became an Entreprenegro
A few months ago, I re-launched JUSTaSISTA/Girl in a Tie Productions (GTP). The re-launch came after much-needed self-analysis about the direction of my company. It is important to note that I had not focused on developing JUSTaSISTA/GTP in more than two years and it needed an total overhaul; that incuded new marketing materials, a marketing plan, establishing and rebuilding relationships. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-77409559212569611692008-03-10T16:54:00.002-04:002008-03-10T17:29:42.276-04:00Why I Can't Stop Talking About Being Gay!Recently, someone gay asked me why do I write and talk so much about being gay? After all, he said, we are more than our sexuality. This isn't the first time I have been asked this very same question. My immediate response was I work for Metro DC Parents Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). My organization educates supports and advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-71100363229891088192008-02-18T14:47:00.014-05:002008-02-21T00:09:26.584-05:00Let's Dig Up a White ManYou know you hear some interesting things in the grocery store. For example, as I was loading my items onto the conveyor belt in the ‘15 Items or Less' line, I heard two people who were disparaging the ‘hype’ around the Presidential campaign. When I arrived in front of my checkout clerk, I realized that he and another employee were engaged in a discussion about the Presidential election. He said,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-83366302276183602982008-02-18T14:29:00.007-05:002008-02-20T23:38:54.518-05:00Obama and “The Good Fight”: The Spirit of Shirley Chisholm Lives!New politics needs new men and women. Increasing participation in the process does not mean much if the new participants still have to make the same old choices, between one white “liberal” upper-middle-class, college-educated, well-off middle-aged male and another. It is time we had a different options. Shirley ChisholmAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-68092776202669013652008-01-29T09:02:00.001-05:002008-02-18T14:44:55.199-05:00Infused with the Audacity of Hope: Pride not PrejudiceThanks to Barak Obama, for the first time since being able to vote, I feel like I am valued as a part of the political process. I will admit that I resisted my initial impulse to support his candidacy because he is African American and so am I. After all, from grade school I was taught that electing a candidate is a democratic process and unlike many other countries, we have the privilege of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-25576451769711426722008-01-25T22:50:00.000-05:002008-01-27T11:44:11.047-05:00Hate and the Death Of Heath LedgerI am incensed that Westboro Baptist Church released this absurd and acrimonious press release threatening to picket Heath Ledger's funeral. According to this document,God Hates Fags! and Fag Enablers!Ergo God hates the sordid,tacky bucket of slime seasoned with vomit known as 'Brokeback Mountain' and He hates all persons having anything whatsoever to do with it.I wasn’t a big fan of Brokeback Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-64564644580745084732008-01-20T21:28:00.002-05:002008-02-18T19:19:12.317-05:00In Faith and Community: The Legacy of My Father and Martin Luther KingIn 2007 I was asked by a Board Member of Metro DC PFLAG to speak to his temple for their Martin Luther King Day celebration. The following is an abridged version of that speech.I thought I would begin today by sharing my earliest recollections of Dr. King’s vision as it pertains to my upbringing. My father, Linwood Corbett, Sr. was a Civil Rights activist in my hometown of Richmond, VA. He becameAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-35536079129573259352008-01-20T18:46:00.000-05:002015-11-20T11:26:13.630-05:00I am an Invisible Black Lesbian
I am invisible, understand because people refuse to see me…When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination-indeed, everything and anything except me.Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
If you were to ask me which community I identify with, be it the African American, spiritual or lesbian, I would offer you a well-thought of ambiguous response. I wouldAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-59768486019859867702008-01-03T17:20:00.000-05:002008-01-25T21:34:19.542-05:00Finding My Power, Claiming My Potential and Embracing Me in 2008!It's a new year and so many of my friends and acquaintances have already made commitments to effect change in their lives. While I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, I do believe it is a perfect time of year to say no to junk food, walk a mile a day or realign your spirit and empower yourself to follow your dreams. This year I am not just focusing on being the person that other people have Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-785653119111436502008-01-03T17:14:00.000-05:002014-08-13T20:18:14.055-04:00Finding My Power, Claiming My Potential and Embracing Me in 2008!It is 2008 and so many of my friends and acquaintances have already made commitments to effect change in their lives. While I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, I do believe it is a perfect reason to say no to junk food, walk a mile a day or realign your spirit and empower yourself to follow your dreams. This year I am not just focusing on being the person that other people have told me Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-51852747388344092412007-12-04T19:24:00.001-05:002008-01-25T21:19:20.612-05:00World AIDS Day, Shrek and the “Down Low’: Does the Black Community Care About AIDS?I couldn’t wait to sit down and write this blog! Who would have thought that World AIDS Day, Shrek and author JL King of the controversial book On the Down Low would have anything in common, but they do. Here’s how it went down children.Last week I attended two World AIDS Day events that proved to be both informative and controversial. Let me start by saying that anyone privy to the data Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-62180485990079539402007-11-29T16:58:00.000-05:002008-01-25T21:20:22.735-05:00Come On Up a Little Higher ChurchThe church is there to support the religious ideas, and religion is there to support individuals’ spirituality. If individual spirituality is getting lost within the maze of religion and the organizational milieu of the church…then something is wrong. Rev. Deborah L. JohnsonI recently read an article by Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds an Adjunct Professor at Howard University School of Divinity Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-24742200591241920402007-11-29T16:51:00.000-05:002008-01-25T21:21:01.429-05:00Wake Up Black Church... Before its Too Late!Years ago, when I was a little girl, I remember my father preaching a sermon entitled, “Wake Up Black Church Before It’s Too Late”. I’m not sure what my father’s main topic was, but what I do know was that he was passionate about the black church both its service and disservice to black people. As I continue to read of the atrocities of many of our community churches as it relates to abuse and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-63330225877500310352007-11-26T22:30:00.000-05:002008-01-25T21:21:53.116-05:00Living My Truth: A Sister Comes Out and Speaks Out!The light of Truth, when it shines upon your darkness, is liberating, inspiring, uplifting and transformative. Allow yourself to go through what you must go through so that you can put a vibration out in the Universe of transcendence, of overcoming, of victory. Rev. Deborah L. Johnson, the Sacred YesAbout a month ago I made a calculated, but difficult decision. I decided to ‘come out’ to my Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4463151822829070882.post-57869813907679692132007-11-26T22:26:00.000-05:002008-01-25T21:24:22.682-05:00A Letter to My SistersDear Sisters,Something has weighed very heavy on my heart since I became a member of our illustrious sorority over 20 years ago. Although I have never shared this with you,after I pledged, two sisters pulled me aside and had a 'talk' with me. Their 'talk' involved asking me if I wanted a man and this was followed by 'cause ------ has enough dykes in our sorority'. I was astonished that my new 'Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602479815614474194noreply@blogger.com0