Ladies- Get In Formation

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/watch-beyonces-surprise-new-video-formation-20160206

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/07/465934070/with-formation-beyonc-lights-up-the-internet-heres-what-people-are-saying

It’s what everyone is talking about- as they should.

Beyonce dropped her new music video for Formation, and it is unapologetically, powerfully, beautifully, BLACK. She celebrates her heritage, she recognizes black voices in social media, she dances on a sinking cop car in New Orleans, and destroys the white heteropatriarchy. She contributes an image of powerful, beautiful blackness into the media. My favorite part of the whole video was when she condemned the media for attacking her baby daughter’s hair, saying, “I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros.” Blue Ivy comes into the video, with her beautiful hair, and delivers a smirk to back up her momma and shame the haters. This video gets me PUMPED. I’ll never understand what it means to be black from the inside, because I’m a white woman, but I do understand that fighting oppression, racism, and prejudice, putting powerful images of black women in the media, and taking pride in who you are is something we should all be pumped about.