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July 31, 2012 at 2:16pm

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: Ab-Soul, Black Hippy, empathy, health, Love, Manicheanism, relationships, therapy, Tranformation, Tribal Love

Healing Our Relationships Take REAL Empathy

Tribal relationships—unions of people that involve romance and creativity—are hard to maintain because of conflicting worldviews. What it means to be a man or womyn in love causes problems for many tribes because their demands and dreams clash without a middle ground. Since I’m raised to be a black male by other black males, my [...]

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December 1, 2011 at 11:59am

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: choice, compromise, Drake, freedom, heartbreak, I choose you, intimacy, partners, polyamorous, polyamory, relationships, she's gotta have it, spike lee, UGK, unison, womyn

A Memorial of Polyamory (Taming of ‘the Few’)

After 2 years of staying single—going on “dates” with various womyn, initiating quasi relationships—I’m back into an exclusive relationship. What I’ve learned over these consistently dynamic months (everyday was not easy), is that you can love multiple womyn—truly be crazy about the personalities of different people at the same time—but you must choose one for [...]

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November 10, 2011 at 10:09am

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Topics: black women, Music, r&b, relationships, Sex

VIDEO: Erykah Badu “Tyrone”

Check out Erykah Badu’s unforgettable “Tyrone” at BlackYouthProject.com.

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July 28, 2011 at 11:59am

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: Aesthetics, Facebook status, FB STATUS, Identity, Identity Politics, insecurity, low self esteem, race, Relationship, relationships, Self, teenagers, [Like]

About the Dorks on Facebook

[Like] posts have taken over facebook. You see them religiously on young Black teens’ walls, and (less acceptable) they appear on 18 and 19 year-old pages. I see no other reason for such creations except various situations of low self-esteem. No one can blame young folks; as teenage years mark the beginning of partner relationships, [...]

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July 14, 2011 at 11:59am

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: Feminism, Feminism & Hip-Hop, hip-hop, Hoes, institutional racism, J. Cole, Keep Ya Head Up, Lights Please, Literary Analysis, Love, Pussy, racism, Relationship, relationships, Sex, Tupac

Sex Over Consciousness?

Lights Please So now we in the hotel Mirrors on the ceilin’ She say she wanna blow L’s I hear her and I’m willin’ But everytime I smoke well a nigga mind gone So that every word I spoke well I’m tryin’ to put her on But she couldn’t hear me I told her all [...]

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June 30, 2011 at 11:59am

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: anti-label, Anti-Label relationships, be with you, being with, Existentialism, facebook official, Labels, Relationship, relationships, titles

Labels Aren’t Romantic and Never Have Been

Too many make the mistake of directing energy toward formality or “making official” their relationships. As if listing dating-experience on a resume has gotten anyone a job, the misinformed forget that everything exists, that, in particular, love is more than words floating around facebook and gossip. Some folks walk away from a reality with bitterness [...]

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June 16, 2011 at 11:59am

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: "is it a good thing or is a one night stand", "We gotta good thing don't know if ima see you again", Aesthetics, Black Boys, Black girls, Booty, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Curb Your Enthusiasm Black Guy, earmilk.com, hip-hop, Hit It & Quit It, J. Cole, J.B. Smoove, Relationship, relationships, Work Out, Workout, Workout mp3, Youth

The Truth About Quickies As By J. Cole

Relationships, these days, get more undesirable as the option to leave everything after a kiss becomes more of a trend. Love’s new hot-minute flavored makeover has its moment of truth, this week, due to a new track by J. Cole. “Workout”, Cole’s first single of his debut album, puts all the hours we kill running [...]

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May 12, 2011 at 12:00pm

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: "I Get Around", "The College Experience", 808s and Heartbreak, Breakups, Breakups Before College, College, Dating, Digital Underground, High School Relationships, Mackin', Objectification of Womyn, Relationship, relationships, Tupac

When High School Lovers Turn Into College Macks (A Peak Into the Objectification of Womyn)

The transition from grammar school to high school floods one’s path with a diverse availability of womyn/men and at a greater numerical degree. Most of our experiences in high school, acknowledging the fact of the transition, owe their thrill to finding that “sweetheart”. Soon, however, all the advice against taking one relationship seriously begins to [...]

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February 3, 2011 at 12:11pm

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: change of heart, LGBTQ, Maxwell, pretty wings, Relationship, relationships, Sexuality

Letter to Tainted Love

Dear, Womyn at Irving Park wearing Bert’s Bees, Over a year ago one of the greatest times of my life came to a close. But closure hasn’t delivered until a year and 8 months later (now). I had the time of my life riding around Lakeview with someone I adored, listening to sexy beast (a [...]

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