Portfolio – Page 16 – Brooke Leigh Howard

March 14, 2016March 14, 2016

PRODUCT PLACEMENT | Clinique Chubby Stick Lip Balm

Viral Fashion: Product Placement | Clinique Chubby Stick Lip Balm

March 14, 2016March 14, 2016

Viral Fashion: VIRAL PICKS | Why We “Blush” for Summer

VIRAL PICKS | Why We “Blush” for Summer

February 26, 2014June 24, 2018

5 writers you should know from the Harlem Renaissance

http://www.denverpost.com/2014/02/26/5-writers-you-should-know-from-the-harlem-renaissance/

December 30, 2013June 24, 2018

Like 2013, these 6 things are gone forever

With the new year approaching, 2014 will not only be filled with new resolutions, but it will also mark the end of iconic cultural trends. From the finale of the crime-drama Breaking Bad to the demolition of the Houston Astrodome, here are six items that you won’t see after 2013, except maybe in reruns.Breaking Bad In September, AMC’s Breaking Bad made a close after its five-season run and over 40 television awards and 130 nominations. Nearly 10 million viewers tuned …

Hysterical Media

Until recent years, women were not “allowed” to receive intimate pleasure. If a woman did have the privilege of experiencing such enjoyment, she was thought to be going through fits or bouts of insanity because women weren’t supposed to enjoy pleasure. So, the origin of “hysteria” meant those “fits of pleasure” but in a negative connotation. Women even received medical surgeries to “cure” them of such antics. Later, people who were considered to be mentally unstable were thought to be “hysterics;” all originating from the same ideology.

Today, the restraints on women have been somewhat loosened, but women of color are still at the bottom of the totem poll in regards to society concerns — specifically black women. If women hundreds of years ago were considered to be hysterics and crazy just over simple enjoyments of life, then what does the popular mass consider black women who never receive justice or fair consideration in social, professional, or unethical environments? We can redefine their and our ideology of women, and, especially, black women.

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