Cut It Out!
I know I promised a last giveaway for August, but I underestimated my things-to-do-before-I-move list. So apologies – let’s kick off September with a bang!
I love a teeshirt that says exactly what’s on my mind, and not in a here-sketchy-dude-read-my-chest kind of way.
I love a teeshirt with impact.
I love a tee with a message that actually makes you think.
So when I was introduced to Cut It Out Apparel via Twitter, I fell in love hard and fast.
Cut It Out’s creators, Tirinda & Noricia, are bellas after my own heart. The Brooklyn based company is all about clothing with integrity, powerful, positive messages, and dope style. Their tees declare messages I know many a bella has wanted to shout to the world. My Facebook friend Carolyn Edgar came immediately to mind — she needs the My Name is NOT Shorty tee for the days when she wants to go running outdoors! Stop those neighborhood dudes in their tracks!
Cut It Out clothing ranges from $10 tees that are dope enough to make you holla and scream, to the $25 Cut It Out logo dress. And oooh, is this Grace Jones tee not the bomb.com? I think so!
I’m happy and proud to support Cut It Out, and I know this is the kind of giveaway bellas will go bananas for. AND I’m gonna be moving and busy and on blogcation for the rest of the week — I plan to be back with a fresh post Friday!
So here’s the giveaway. Cut It Out is offering THREE tees.
– Destroy Stereotypes
– CIO Peace
– My Name Is Not Shorty
And here’s how you can win.
Leave a comment below telling us which tee you want, and why. Maybe it applies to your life, or something you’ve been through, or it’s just a message you want to share with the world. I wanna know!
When I get back to being online at the end of this week, I’ll close the comments and choose three lucky winners.
Deal? Deal!
For more info, visit www.cutitoutapparel.com or call (877) 7-CUT-OUT.
Good luck, bellas!
** edited Friday – comments are now closed! Thanks to everyone for entering. I’ll be choosing winners early next week!
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I would love to win the My Name is Not Shorty tee!
My name is not shorty!, it’s not “aaayy girl!” it’s not “lil mama!”
We women go through being catcalled and borderline harrassed for just minding our business going to the grocery store, walking to our cars etc. just normal everyday activities become a battle and that tee is like armor! Let’s bring chivalry and just plain everyday niceties back!
Destroying Stereotypes is what I do daily. As a “darker shade” black woman married to a Mexican man that has graduated college and is in the process of purchasing my own home. I have broken every stereotype that has been expected of me and i’m only 25. My mother was a teen mother and my father abandoned me. I chose to break those stereotypes and not get pregnant young and to be open to love when I found it. I also break the stereotype when employers meet me and realize that the voice they heard on the other end with the person who has all the necessary credentials and sounded as “white” as them was an afro/cornrow wearing size 18 black women. If I win the Destroy Stereotypes tshirt you would allow me to say who I am without uttering a word.
The Nikki
I’m 5 feet tall and I have been called shorty for being short but also just because guys use that term…. I love that T! How clever!
I like the “Destroy Stereotypes” tee because it is soo what the world is in need of right now. So often people have preconceptions about who one is because of the color of their skin, the way they walk or even how they wear their hair. Right now is the time to destroy stereotypes and stop living as if it’s one against all. Everyone is an individual and we should all appreciate that!!!
It is also a good tee because recently I had a bad experience at a restaurant because of the stereotypes that my waiter had about who I was. He thought because I was a young black woman that I didn’t deserve the same decent service as everyone else. As long as my money is still green, I am still somebody!
I really like the “Destroy Stereotypes” tee. I love the statement that it makes.
i would like to have the CIO Peace shirt because i think the shirt is cool and hip and the figure is shaped how i kind am…LOL
i would love to rock the “my name is not shorty” tee. i am in the middle of a process right now. there is a very dear friend of mine that insists on calling me shorty. it has caught on and now several people are calling me shorty. at first, i decided that perhaps i should fall in line and be a good sport…i mean, like i dont have to be an actress about everything right? but as the months go by, i am second guessing myself because i’m like, my name is not shorty dammit! it is %$^(*&()* and it is a beautiful name that my parents gave me and it is MY NAME!!!!!!!!!! if i let you call me shorty, what will it be next year? so, i am in the middle of a transition in my life and this tee would be a wonderful way for me to remember this time in my life. thanks in advance.