All posts by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
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“These words/ they are stones in the water”: Introduction to The Feminist Wire Forum on June Jordan
Jordan’s insistence on the arts as a source of power was not confined to the limits of the page. She was a fiercely committed...
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Feminists We Love: Toshi Reagon [VIDEO]
In today’s Feminists We Love feature, writer, performer and arts activist Toshi Reagon talks with TFW Associate Editor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about feminist lineages, the...
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Op-Ed: How to be Black in the Age of Obama, George Zimmerman, and Paula Deen: Notes from Summer, 2013
Welcome to the impossible future. White people are talking about race. Sometimes, they’ll even talk about racism. Some will say the word “racism” hesitantly,...
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On The Morning of the Election (Or, "Your Abstention Will Not Protect You: Voting and Radical Black Feminist Politics")
By C. Riley Snorton and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Today marks the conclusion of the voting period, which will settle numerous electoral decisions, including various seats...
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Central Park Saturday
Until I was about six years old, my father and I had a ritual of spending Saturday mornings in Central Park together. My mother was...
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Diaspora (for a friend)
You inspire me in too many directions. I am laughing onto pillows, gurgling spit into screen. Visions mangled between eyes, quicktongued foreign gazes,...
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From "A Magic of Bags"
It was not that Ilana Randolph did not like people. She did. What she didn’t like was the way they looked at her, and at...
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Snow Fight
“Snow Fight” is a story about the complex relationships between joy, power and objectification in the lives of young black people and young people of...
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Black Queer Gender and Pariah’s “Grand Swagger”
Three white women crowd the ticket window. “What is Pariah?” one asks, flustered. The ticket vender stammers. “It’s, uh, kind of a slice-of-life among kids...
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Media, Sports and Black Queer Youth: Tayshana Murphy and the Dimming of Stars
I didn’t know Tayshana Murphy was gay. I’m from Harlem, and I like to think I’m tapped into important conversations among New York’s LGBTQ people...
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Un-Settling Fatness: Obesity Goes Pop-Genre Big
I expected to love Chelsea Settles. I expected to hate Chelsea Settles. On both counts, I was wrong. MTV’s newest (semi)reality protagonist— spun, as the...
