8 extrodinary women (Scorpiana X, Sima Lee, Ms. Pheonix, Yesika Starr, Controverse, Imani, Krislo, Bruja) who came together to stomp out all myths about sisterhood, contributing extroadinary works to the urban tradition of literature and art period.
Strange Fruit was introduced in the year 1937 by a teacher named Abel Meeropol,the poem was created to shed light on the American lynchings that spread through the southern regions like wildfire. Later the poem was made into a song, sang by our lovely Billie Holliday. The song spread awareness about our own holocaust, the Black Holocaust. She sang:
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Today in sheer respect and rememberance of those who suffered, the visionaries who went against the grain of a blatantly racist and hateful time, emerges Strange Fruits. A non profit organization catering to female youth, ages 8-18, dedicated to providing an alternative to the negativity in the streets and through media, by providing a positive alternative of self expression through The Arts, Poetry, (Creative Writing), and HipHop and by offering workshops, counseling, open dialect, AND SISTERHOOD to ensure that needs are met and questions are answered.
www.thestrangefruits.com
I get my 8 servings of strange fruit everyday!
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Today in sheer respect and rememberance of those who suffered, the visionaries who went against the grain of a blatantly racist and hateful time, emerges Strange Fruits. A non profit organization catering to female youth, ages 8-18, dedicated to providing an alternative to the negativity in the streets and through media, by providing a positive alternative of self expression through The Arts, Poetry, (Creative Writing), and HipHop and by offering workshops, counseling, open dialect, AND SISTERHOOD to ensure that needs are met and questions are answered.
www.thestrangefruits.com
I get my 8 servings of strange fruit everyday!
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A platypus is an example of a creature that is a really "strange fish."
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statement: i like fat men in thongs
response: "you are a strange fish"
A platypus is an example of a creature that is a really "strange fish."
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statement: i like fat men in thongs
response: "you are a strange fish"
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Get the Strange Bucket of Ham mug.1. The Ninth song on Tom Waits' 1988 live album, Big Time.
2. A phenomenon that occurs as a cliche everywhere in real life, as well as Hollywood and books. Strangers only talk about the weather, for the most part, no matter what the situation is.
2. A phenomenon that occurs as a cliche everywhere in real life, as well as Hollywood and books. Strangers only talk about the weather, for the most part, no matter what the situation is.
Excerpt from Strange Weather-
The world is getting flatter,
The sky is falling all around
Oh, and nothing is the matter
For I never cry in town
And a love like ours, my dear,
Is best measured when it's down
And I never buy umbrellas,
'Cause there's always one around.
And all over the world Strangers
Talk only 'bout the weather
The world is getting flatter,
The sky is falling all around
Oh, and nothing is the matter
For I never cry in town
And a love like ours, my dear,
Is best measured when it's down
And I never buy umbrellas,
'Cause there's always one around.
And all over the world Strangers
Talk only 'bout the weather
by Frank Rider August 22, 2009
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Tracklist:
1. Jack The Ripper
2. Count in Fives
3. Draw Japan
4. Gloves
5. Horrors Theme
6. Little Victories
7. She is The New Thing
8. Sheena is a Parasite
9. Thunderclaps
10. Gil Sleeping
11. A Train Roars
Lineup:
Faris Badwan - vocals
Joshua Third - guitar
Rhys Webb - organ/keyboard
Tomethy Furse - bass
Coffin Joe - Drums
Tracklist:
1. Jack The Ripper
2. Count in Fives
3. Draw Japan
4. Gloves
5. Horrors Theme
6. Little Victories
7. She is The New Thing
8. Sheena is a Parasite
9. Thunderclaps
10. Gil Sleeping
11. A Train Roars
Lineup:
Faris Badwan - vocals
Joshua Third - guitar
Rhys Webb - organ/keyboard
Tomethy Furse - bass
Coffin Joe - Drums
by MindlessPieFace November 21, 2009
Get the Strange House mug.Someone who marches to the tune of their own sequin-clad boot-wearing star-wars-lovin drummer. These are people who "own" their oddities with no qualms whatsoever.
I wish my cubicle wasn't right next to Marky's. He's always showing me pictures of his cats dressed up like different characters from Stargate SG-I, and feels the need to tell me whether it's #1 or #2 every time he gets up to go to the bathroom. He usually wears a silver vest with black jeans and keds. He's a strange ranger!
by AnnaBananna July 17, 2006
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