WoW Festival: Who Owns Our Bodies?
This weekend, I will be one of 128 women to appear at the New York debut of WOW– Women of the World Festival, an international event intended to celebrate women and spark progressive discussion of their rights. Held at the Apollo Theater in Harlem —and open to everyone—the event runs June 11-14 and includes keynotes by Iyanla Vanzant and Naomi Wolf, performances by Macy Gray, Jessica Care Moore, and Toshi Reagon, workshops on Read more...
theHigh-5: Mo’Ne Davis, #Ferguson, Toni Morrison
theHigh-5 is not new here on theHotness, but making it the feature where we highlight our top five Facebook posts from the past week… well that’s new. So without further ado, here’s this week’s favorite five:
1. #OnTheRun #Ferguson
While Jay-Z & Beyonce play #ontherun, this real life couple…
2. Mo’Ne Davis – #ThrowLikeAGirl
We love Mo’Ne Davis who’s showing all the boys what a fastball looks like (and that would be 70 mph)! She’s Read more...
The 15 Most Fascinating Hot Grrrls of 2013
Fresh on the heels of watching Lupita Nyong’o get robbed at the Golden Globes for her star-making, provocative and mesmerizing performance in 12 Years A Slave and frankly, still salty over Kerry Washington’s Emmy loss last fall, I was reminded of theHotness’ Most Fascinating List from 2010 and knew it was high-time to bring that justificative joint back. And yea, the Oscars even snubbed Oprah yesterday and left her, for a second time (first Read more...
My Interview With Ava DuVernay About Scandal
Last night’s episode of Scandal was the bonafide real deal TRUTH!! It was the hot oil in a black bottom skillet; the Kool in Kool-Aid! To quote one of our geniuses, it was “superbad, superslick” and it all came together so brilliantly under the direction of filmmaker Ava DuVernay! Please read my Ebony mag interview with this cinematic force of nature. Ava is so smart, fiercely her own woman, and all about Team Liv. I Read more...
Our Women’s History Month Celebration
theHotness.com
&
5001 Flavors
invites you to our
Women’s History Month
UPTOWN GRRRL SOIREE
Celebrating the achievements of Harlem women
honoring
Alyah Horsford-Sidberry, Owner, Cove Lounge
Shola Lynch, Director, “Free Angela & All Political Prisoners”
Sharene Wood, Owner, Harlem Haberdashery & 5001 Flavors
Saturday, March 30, 2013
2:00 – 5:00PM
at
Harlem Haberdashery
245 Lenox Ave. (bet. 122nd & 123rd St.)
646.707.0070
RSVP: news@harlemhaberdashery.com
Kara Walker’s Dust Jackets for the Niggerati
theHotness presents…
An Art Walk & Talk
for
KARA WALKER’S
Dust Jackets for the Niggerati–and Supporting Dissertations,
Drawings Submitted Ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker
hosted by
Nicole Moore
Founder & Editor, theHotness.com
&
Dexter Wimberly
Director of Communications, Museum for African Art
When:
TODAY – Saturday, June 11, 2011
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
530 West 22nd St., NYC
* Afterwards we will continue the conversation over drinks *
@ The Read more...
Scratch & Kiss
“The art of living (and loving) is more like wrestling than dancing, insofar as it stands ready against the accidental and unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
When I think of love I think of a force that is all consuming. Beyond all our natural and unnatural senses, LOVE at its best (and worst) strips us, whips us, rocks, knocks and locks us in a powerful space that defines and Read more...
How Daddy Made Me a Fly Woman
Last weekend while standing in the condiments aisle of Marshall’s looking for an awesome ginger chile sauce, I bumped into an old friend. Eyes kinda puffy, she had been crying. She just lost her dad like a month ago and just found out while looking for a glass canister that her homegrrrl’s father just passed away too. I told her what I knew firsthand: Be gentle with yourself, grieve when you want and know that Read more...
Rebooting Life L-Boogie Stylie
Whoa Nelly, my one-week break from this here cipher turned into six just like that! At the outset I knew I needed a break. Blogging, social networking and the whole idea and notion of being theHotness is a non-stop grind. I have to be online everyday from the minute I step out of bed to the minute I tuck myself back in at night. I have to be in the mix for what seems like Read more...
Drill Baby, Drill!
All this talk about drilling really has me thinking about one of the items on my Bucket List:
· Learn how to use a drill to absolute perfection.
You see my Bucket List isn’t a summary of things I want to do before I die, but rather it’s a compilation of things I want and need to learn, and here’s the best part, while I am still single. Not to say marriage is akin to Read more...