This is a meme featuring links to some of the more thoughtful posts around the brown blogosphere. Tired of all the fluff on many blogs? BrownGirl is helping you sift through the bullsh*t and find the posts doing some real talk. Check 'em out and reply with equally thoughtful comments.

* Renina of New Model Minority has some pointed thoughts when it comes to a woman's autonomy in public and patriarchy's influence and interference. Her piece was born from a re-reading of Cynthia Grant Bowman's Harvard Law Review article entitled, "Street Harrassment and the Informal Ghettoization of Women."

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The Hyper Marginalization of Black Fiction- the brief book list she started in the post alone is worth a peek.

Follow her on twitter @Mdotwrites

* Here's what's probably the month's most debatable post: Meeting Girls Where They Are at the Crunk Feminist Collective. CF Chanel points out Lil' Kim and Nicki Minaj as possible jumping off points for introducing our little sisters to feminism.

follow them on twitter @crunkfeminists

* This question of the week posed at For Colored Gurls regarding college educated stay-at-home-moms struck a nerve. Why do so many think that a woman becoming a SAHM nullifies her degree? I need more of degree holding SAHMs to respond to this one.

follow them on twitter @forcoloredgurls

This month's blog discoveries:

All Day Natural (natural/green/organic lifestyle)- Alicia blogs about wholistic health, natural hair, and healthy eateries to visit while traveling just name a few. 
follow her on twitter @alldaynatural

Savvy Brown (natural/green/organic/frugal lifestyle) - Savvy shares great tips on how to live a more natural lifestyle without going broke.
follow her on twitter @savvybrown

Repeating Islands (culture/arts/African diaspora) - News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts

African Diaspora, Ph.D (history/African diaspora) - Scholarship ad the field of Atlantic African diaspora history
follow on twitter @jmjohnso26