The Concerned Minds of Feminine Minority Consciousness…+ a Brotha

Shout out to our good friend Mike Tillery at The Starting Five for this post title!

Next month the SV will be a year old- oh how time flies. We’ll save the retrospective until then. For now, we want to reintroduce you to all the contributors for the SV. It used to be one voice, but we’ve since grown. Check us out:

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Olivia Levande explores relationships, love, and sex by delving into her own life experiences and sharing them with us.

No word on whether her man knows about this or not. We don’t plan on asking him any time soon.

It should prove interesting reading.

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Tiffany Jones is a 30 year old bi-racial woman living on the east coast.

Tiffany has a wicked successful vlog, “The Mulatto Diaries”, and her videos are featured here on the Sable Verity.

Tiffany represents a refreshing point of view that truly helps people understand the ripple effect of the ‘one-drop’.

“A couple of years ago i literally had a realization that I don’t have to subscribe to hypodecent or the one drop rule and i have every right to partake in and enjoy white and black culture equally if i want or i can favor one over the other sometimes or all the time and that i don’t have to feel guilty or embarrassed about any of it. I then noticed that i had failed to see my story told anywhere in the mainstream media. i saw biracial women playing “black” roles and having two black parents on screen. i saw that the one drop rule was alive and well in the images we see. and i wonder where else. i want to tell my story. i want to see myself reflected in the world. i want a clear vision of myself. i want other biracial people to have the opportunity to hear someone talk about the things they may have experienced and never heard anyone discuss before. i want people to know what being black and white is like.”

Brother to The Night (BTN) is a 30ish really Black man in the DC area.

BTN is computer geek but plays 2 sexy instruments;a writer but loves the crack of the bat as well as football helmets; and is a father to 1, brother to none, yet embraces all in this crazy thing called “life”.

Some of his anecdotes, points of view, and fictional writing will be featured here on the Sable Verity. BTN contributions represent the Arsenio Effect; to make you go “Hmmmm!”

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Sable Verity is a 31 year old professional who lives in Seattle. Yes, Seattle- go figure.

One of few women bloggers of color in the Pacific Northwest, covering issues that directly impact minority families, Sable looks at the world through a sociological perspective, no matter how mundane the situation may seem.

Mother, writer and activist, editor and founder of the SV, friends (and enemies) describe Sable Verity as a tireless advocate (or that bitch that just won’t go away), who believes in speaking (ranting) the truth (her irrational race-tinged views).

Sable writes for the South Seattle Beacon twice a month in her “Lest We Forget” column, is a regular contributor to thefreshxpress.com and a guest columnist for the Rainier Valley Post. Yup, it’s a lot of writing. She should mostdef be paid more.