What's your favorite thing sold at Homeboy Bakery or
Homegirl Cafe?
Knead to heal: a bakery in Los Angeles is the site of reconciliation and transformation for ex-gang members
That's because
Homegirl Cafe is more than just a place to get a taco: It's also where women who are former gang members or at risk of joining a gang can get job training and restaurant skills like cooking, barista experience, and even gardening.
Second--chance cafe: an L.A. restaurateur helps former gang members get their lives back on track
He showed her the bakery and the
Homegirl Cafe, where enemies work side by side with one another.
The challenge of serving a diverse church: being Christ for others
HOMEGIRL: Scottish Singer/songwriter Sandi Thom still keeps her Liverpool flat - and loves this city
Music: Sandi's so sure; 'Liverpool's my favourite place', says webcast music star Thom
In Bringing Down the House, Martin and Latifah are a classic screwball couple: he's the uptight lawyer who needs soul, and she's the funky
homegirl who has been framed for a crime and needs him to clear her name.
Queen Latifah, unruly women, and the bodies of romantic comedy
When Alicia is injured, Marisa cuts school to visit her "
homegirl" to give her "a meaningful hug" (p.
Studying masculinity(ies) in books about girls
Its approximately 40 items included t-shirts with the Homeboy or
Homegirl logo, children's and baby clothes, bags, mouse pads, wallets, hats, and coffee mugs.
Homeboy industries: an incubator of hope and businesses
Or was she pretending to be a
homegirl with her pals as a joke as some people feel?
Brother they can milk it!
HomeGirl Going Home: Hip-Hop Feminism and the Politics of Location.
"En mi imperio": competing discourses of agency in Ivy Queen's reggaeton
More delightfully, he describes the members of the archetypal 1960s tough-girl group, the Ronettes, as "
homegirl Jews." Well, one of them was married to record producer Phil Spector (who was not only born Jewish but, in what Buhle considers a "strange and definitely Jewish thing...never acted entirely without a degree of wounded artist's sensibility").
Jewtopia
Not helping matters are one-note turns as Rebecca's trashy girlfriends by Kam Heskin and Carmen Electra, the latter playing a sadistic waxing technician with an affected
homegirl accent.
Dirty Love
Cheryl Rodriguez, "A
Homegirl Goes Home" in Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics edited by Irma McClaurin (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001), 239.
What's love got to do? (& other stories of black women's sexualities)*
The slices of life presented as the worlds of such youth as "Tiger," "Trust Me," "
Homegirl," and "Jail-bail" are vivid, raw, and reportorial rather than dramatized.
Burch, Claire. Tales of young urban squatters; plus how to squat