Comments for Kenyon Farrow | Writer. Speaker. Activist. http://kenyonfarrow.com Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:57:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Comment on Technotronic's Ya-Kid K: So Black and So Gay! by TheDragonist http://kenyonfarrow.com/2008/10/06/technotronics-ya-kid-k-so-black-and-so-gay/#comment-3416 TheDragonist Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:57:10 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/?p=526#comment-3416 Five years later (well, this is a 2008 post), but I HAVE to say something about it, because you wrote “Ya Kid K was one of the first women to rock a butch hip-hop effect in pop music, inspiring many Black and Latina butch dykes across the country, if not the world!”. YES! She inspired me... a lot! I'm a black woman from Brazil who was 17 y.o. when I saw Ya Kid K on TV singing "Move this". Oh God... hypnotizing effect! And one year later I had my first kiss with a girl while playing "Rockin' over the beat", just because I was dancing to that girl like Ya Kid K used to dance. See? That Ya Kid' style impacted my life, and I don't mind if she's NOT lesbian but straight: I'm black, I'm Brazilian, I'm lesbian - and she's part of my history. Five years later (well, this is a 2008 post), but I HAVE to say something about it, because you wrote “Ya Kid K was one of the first women to rock a butch hip-hop effect in pop music, inspiring many Black and Latina butch dykes across the country, if not the world!”.
YES! She inspired me… a lot! I’m a black woman from Brazil who was 17 y.o. when I saw Ya Kid K on TV singing “Move this”. Oh God… hypnotizing effect! And one year later I had my first kiss with a girl while playing “Rockin’ over the beat”, just because I was dancing to that girl like Ya Kid K used to dance.
See? That Ya Kid’ style impacted my life, and I don’t mind if she’s NOT lesbian but straight: I’m black, I’m Brazilian, I’m lesbian – and she’s part of my history.

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]]> Comment on Black Vote for Prop 8 57%, not 70%!!! by Can Black Women Lead on Rethinking Marriage? « ~~Defender of Faith~~Guardian of Truth~~ http://kenyonfarrow.com/2008/12/01/black-vote-for-prop-8-57-not-70/#comment-3411 Can Black Women Lead on Rethinking Marriage? « ~~Defender of Faith~~Guardian of Truth~~ Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:45:27 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/?p=581#comment-3411 [...] which is nearly one-third African American – may need to take cover. We know about the backlash black Californians faced after Prop. 8 passed. We also know about National Organization for Marriage’s cynical [...] [...] which is nearly one-third African American – may need to take cover. We know about the backlash black Californians faced after Prop. 8 passed. We also know about National Organization for Marriage’s cynical [...]

]]> Comment on Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black? by More Complications of Life? | dhmnguyen http://kenyonfarrow.com/2005/06/14/is-gay-marriage-anti-black/#comment-3410 More Complications of Life? | dhmnguyen Sun, 14 Oct 2012 04:55:26 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/2005/06/14/is-gay-marriage-anti-black/#comment-3410 [...] reading Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black by Kenyon Farrow, I just can’t help but think that all social complications would never be [...] [...] reading Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black by Kenyon Farrow, I just can’t help but think that all social complications would never be [...]

]]> Comment on We Real Cool?:On Hip-Hop, Asian-Americans, Black Folks, and Appropriation by Kenyon Farrow http://kenyonfarrow.com/2005/06/02/we-real-coolon-hip-hop-asian-americans-black-folks-and-appropriation/#comment-3409 Kenyon Farrow Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:08:55 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/2005/06/02/we-real-coolon-hip-hop-asian-americans-black-folks-and-appropriation/#comment-3409 Thanks Josiah. Yes, it wasn't easy, but I'm glad I did it. Take care, Kenyon Thanks Josiah. Yes, it wasn’t easy, but I’m glad I did it.

Take care,

Kenyon

]]> Comment on We Real Cool?:On Hip-Hop, Asian-Americans, Black Folks, and Appropriation by Josiah http://kenyonfarrow.com/2005/06/02/we-real-coolon-hip-hop-asian-americans-black-folks-and-appropriation/#comment-3408 Josiah Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:18:51 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/2005/06/02/we-real-coolon-hip-hop-asian-americans-black-folks-and-appropriation/#comment-3408 Wow, Kenyon. Great article, and I largely agree. It must have taken quite a bit of courage to write this. Wow, Kenyon. Great article, and I largely agree. It must have taken quite a bit of courage to write this.

]]> Comment on Black Vote for Prop 8 57%, not 70%!!! by Can Black Women Lead On Rethinking Marriage? http://kenyonfarrow.com/2008/12/01/black-vote-for-prop-8-57-not-70/#comment-3407 Can Black Women Lead On Rethinking Marriage? Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:40:26 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/?p=581#comment-3407 [...] which is nearly one-third African-American—may need to take cover. We know about the backlash black Californians faced after Prop. 8 passed. We also know about the National Organization for Marriage's cynical efforts [...] [...] which is nearly one-third African-American—may need to take cover. We know about the backlash black Californians faced after Prop. 8 passed. We also know about the National Organization for Marriage's cynical efforts [...]

]]> Comment on We Real Cool?:On Hip-Hop, Asian-Americans, Black Folks, and Appropriation by An interesting issue connecting Hip-Hop and basketball | Breaking the Mold: Jeremy Lin http://kenyonfarrow.com/2005/06/02/we-real-coolon-hip-hop-asian-americans-black-folks-and-appropriation/#comment-3406 An interesting issue connecting Hip-Hop and basketball | Breaking the Mold: Jeremy Lin Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:02:35 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/2005/06/02/we-real-coolon-hip-hop-asian-americans-black-folks-and-appropriation/#comment-3406 [...] Keep this in mind as I address a blog by Kenyon Farrow provided to me by a professor, We Real Cool?, in which he addresses the issue that Asians have taken hip-hop music and made it their own when in [...] [...] Keep this in mind as I address a blog by Kenyon Farrow provided to me by a professor, We Real Cool?, in which he addresses the issue that Asians have taken hip-hop music and made it their own when in [...]

]]> Comment on “Endgame AIDS In Black America”: A Exercise in Drama And No Politics by FRONTLINE: AIDS in Black America | African American AIDS Activism Oral History Project http://kenyonfarrow.com/2012/07/10/endgame-aids-in-black-america/#comment-3405 FRONTLINE: AIDS in Black America | African American AIDS Activism Oral History Project Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:33:05 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.com/?p=1320#comment-3405 [...] more: Kenyon Farrow has a more critical review of Endgame on his personal site. Right after the documentary aired, Gawker put up cash to find [...] [...] more: Kenyon Farrow has a more critical review of Endgame on his personal site. Right after the documentary aired, Gawker put up cash to find [...]

]]> Comment on Notes on A Confession of A (so-called) Black Gentrifier by Gentrification and the Investment in Whiteness | Intro to Women's and Gender Studies http://kenyonfarrow.com/2011/03/22/notes-on-a-confession-of-a-so-called-black-gentrifier/#comment-3404 Gentrification and the Investment in Whiteness | Intro to Women's and Gender Studies Sat, 11 Aug 2012 05:17:49 +0000 http://kenyonfarrow.com/?p=1073#comment-3404 [...] Kenyon Farrow Notes on A Confession of A (so-called) Black Gentrifier This is not to say that Black people with higher incomes should not be critically engaged with the ways in which they play a role often in perpetuating classism that may exacerbate the isolation of poor and working class Blacks in neighborhoods under the onslaught of gentrification. [...] [...] Kenyon Farrow Notes on A Confession of A (so-called) Black Gentrifier This is not to say that Black people with higher incomes should not be critically engaged with the ways in which they play a role often in perpetuating classism that may exacerbate the isolation of poor and working class Blacks in neighborhoods under the onslaught of gentrification. [...]

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