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Walking the Tightrope: Good Indian Girls, Race, and Bad Sexuality

May 24, 2013
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By Chaya Babu I was a few weeks into my freshman year at Duke when my sister, a senior at the time, said to me, “Indian girls who date black guys are sluts.” Just like that. We were sitting in her car in the circular driveway behind my dorm. The night was warm and...
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Are All the Women Still White? Kermit Gosnell, “Back Alley” Abortions, and the Politics of Motherhood

May 23, 2013
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By j.n. salters Last week, Kermit Gosnell—the African-American “late-term abortionist” who delivered live babies and then stuck scissors in the backs of their necks and “snipped” their spinal cords in his West Philadelphia “house of horrors”—was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences in the deaths of three babies, the overdose death of a patient,...
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Posted in Activism, Black Women, Economy, Feminism, Health, Immigration, Politics, Racism, Reproduction, Sexism, U.S., Women of Color | 2 Comments »

Towards Community Wellness: Healing from Trauma through Yoga

May 22, 2013
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By Jardana Peacock Some stories you don’t want to tell. Some places you just don’t want to return to. But some stories destroy you unless they are shared. The story I have to tell is one of trauma, yoga, community organizing, de-colonizing wellness, and healing. This story begins in 2001, several months after I...
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Featured Poet: Aditi Rao

May 22, 2013
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By Aditi Rao Dear Mr. Yadav, I too am an Indian Woman   “Referring to the recent ‘Slut Walk’ held in the Capital, Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav said we had naked women walking down the streets with tattoos on their cheeks, whereas Indian women did not even look up while walking.” – Report on...
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My Journey to Feminism: How Feminism Inspired My Life

May 22, 2013
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By Elizabeth Dorssom I first started referring to myself as a feminist when I was 17. Even though I didn’t identify as a feminist until I was older I was definitely a feminist from a very young age. When I was in elementary school I enjoyed playing with Hot Wheels cars instead of Barbie dolls. The...
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To Our Sisters, Morehouse

May 21, 2013
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By Kalima DeSuze, Nicole Patin and Farah Tanis on behalf of the members of Black Women’s Blueprint To Our Sisters, To those who have survived sexual assault or any other form of violation along the continuum of categories of sexual violence reserved primarily for women, female body or not, we at Black Women’s Blueprint...
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Rhetoric We Don’t Believe In

May 21, 2013
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By Eddie Glaude, Lester Spence, Imani Perry, Josie Pickens, David Leonard, and Kiese Laymon We come together to share our various thoughts and reactions to the recent speeches from President Obama and the First Lady.  Each of us were disappointed and frustrated in the rhetoric delivered this past week, not only because of what...
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Book Review: Marci Blackman’s “Tradition”

May 21, 2013
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By Quincy Scott Jones Town and Country: A Review of Marci Blackman’s Tradition (Water Street Press, 2013) In the most brilliant crimes stories, the detective must travel, and hence guide the audience, from more familiar settings to enter hidden and hostile communities.  Sherlock Holmes leaves the humdrum armchair to investigate the Red-Headed League.  Easy Rawlins leaves his...
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Best Laid Plans

May 20, 2013
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By Dara Tafakari Mathis I am a punch line of a black woman and my pride is bruised. You will laugh later, I promise myself, but all I want to do right now is escape and cry. My six-month old baby gurgles at me, her two teeth poking from her gums like white square Chiclets....
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Shattering Silence (Video)

May 20, 2013
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By Molly Baker On April 23, University of Arizona student Dean Saxton, better known as Brother Dean, stood on a bench brandishing a sign that bluntly stated in bold, black letters “You Deserve Rape.” Saxton proceeded to verbally harass many women that walked by on their way to class, calling them “sluts” and telling them...
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Arts & Culture

  • Featured Poet: Aditi Raorao self def

    By Aditi Rao Dear Mr. Yadav, I too am an Indian Woman   “Referring to the recent ‘Slut Walk’ held in the Capital, Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav said we had naked women walking down the streets with tattoos on their cheeks, whereas Indian women did not even look up while [...]

  • A is for Asylum12

    Assata do not dry like dissipated plums under castro’s bronzing sun you mural fortress you live memorial spirited artifice rouged sea salt that marinates america’s wound   Assata you like stripped bone road unaware of which exit is free birth  brown coagulated rhythm redefined reborn rumba queen Assata dusk breath [...]

  • “Affirmation” by Assata Shakur945073_361887813911202_1619329964_n

    “Affirmation” by Assata Shakur* ___ I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine. In windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs. And i believe that seeds grow into sprouts. And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in the magic [...]