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Last Day For "Bougie Black Girl" And "I Love Bougie Black Girls" Tees And Hoodies
As our latest Teespring campaign comes to an end, let me remind you of a couple things: 1. There is a VSB store where all of our active campaigns are housed. 2. Although the hoodie options don’t initially appear on the page, they do if you click on a campaign and then go to “additional…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 25. Natural Hair
If you ever happened across a Bougie Black Person at a gallery crawl or a blogging conference and you wanted to make them happy, ask them about natural hair. If it’s a woman, ask her to share her “big chop” story, and pull up a chair as she regales you with a 30-minute-long tale that…
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Back By Popular Demand: "Bougie Black Girl" And "I Love Bougie Black Girls" Tees And Hoodies
The people have spoken. And when the people spoke, the people said “Yo…when is VSB going to sell those Bougie Black Girl shirts again???” “Well,” VSB said to the people “how about Tuesday, November 11th?” “Yaaaaaaaas!!!!” the people exclaimed. For the next week, “Bougie Black Girl” and “I Love Bougie Black Girls” shirts, tees, and…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 24. Bottomless Mimosas
It’s well-established that Bougie Black People (BBP) are alcoholics who invented things like “the day party” and “the Scandal watch party” and “the Congressional Black Caucus” just so they’d have more opportunities to drink. But, to truly understand BBP, you need to understand their drink of choice, and why their drink of choice is their drink…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 23. Thinkpieces
Whether they’re injecting facts to conversations (“Speaking of Obama’s speech on ISIS, did you know ‘Malia’ is a Hawaii name meaning ‘calm and peaceful’?”), providing obscure tidbits (“I know everyone loved Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but Jason Segel’s best role was in Bye Bye Benjamin”), using smart sounding words (“That trope harkens back to a deconstructionist narrative”) or…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 22. Questlove
If you ever wanted to get a Bougie Black Person’s attention and you weren’t sure how, a surefire way would be to mention the snarky “Death Rides A Pale Horse” cover The Roots did on Fallon the night before. If you want that Bougie Black Person to smile, mention that time you saw The Roots…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 21. Panels, Conferences, And Conventions
If you ever happened to be in dire need of 300 or so Bougie Black People and had no idea how to find them, go to Kinkos and create a flyer for a panel, conference, or convention. When done at Kinkos, create an Eventbrite page. And make sure to have a registration fee. Then, create…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 20. A Different World
You might remember the late 80s and early 90s as a forgettable period of time where Republicans ran the White House, t-shirts had shoulder pads, and everyone cool got AIDS. This is because you’re not a Bougie Black Person. Bougie Black People hold this period especially dear, as many of their favorite memories were created in…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 19. Business Cards
Aside from the memory of that time last year when they were retweeted by Shonda Rhimes, there’s nothing that will more bring joy to a Bougie Black Person’s spirit than creating personalized business cards, receiving those personalized business cards in the mail, and handing out those personalized business cards to people they happen to meet. The…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 18. Being Upset About Kanye West
No one was happier for Kanye West’s early career than Bougie Black People. While others merely enjoyed Kanye’s music, Bougie Black People were enchanted by him. “Finally” Bougie Black People exclaimed, between sips of green machine Naked Juice, “a rap artist who speaks to me.” To their credit, the parallels between Kanye West and the…