All posts by Tanisha C. Ford
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Black Power and Its Afterlives: A Conversation With Historian Ashley D. Farmer
I had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Ashley D. Farmer about her field-defining new book Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an...
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Black Marriage Unshackled: An Interview with Historian Tera W. Hunter
I recently spoke with historian Tera W. Hunter about her groundbreaking new book Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (The...
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Trans Women of Color Speaking Truth to Power
A Conversation with Activists Katrina Goodlett and Nala Simone Toussaint Trans women of color are...
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J. Crew Is Into African Fashion Now?
To kickoff swimsuit season, J. Crew announced the launch of its Bantu African swimwear line. Perhaps best known for its summer in the Hamptons look,...
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Feminists We Love: Andrea J. Ritchie
Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian police misconduct attorney and organizer who has engaged in extensive research, writing, litigation, organizing and advocacy on profiling, policing, and...
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*Pretty Sparkly Things: A Black Girl’s Encounter with the Prison Industrial Complex
I love clothes. I always have. As a black girl coming of age in the early 1990s, I was up on all the adornment trends:...
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“Fire in the Skies”: Introduction to the Mumia and Mass Incarceration Forum
On December 9, 1981, journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested and later charged and convicted for murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. The prosecution’s...
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Feminists We Love: Mimi Thi Nguyen
Mimi Thi Nguyen is a feminist scholar, activist, and blogger. She is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the...
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Feminists We Love: Rosa Clemente
Rosa Clemente is an Afro-Puerto Rican grassroots community organizer, Hip-Hop activist, independent journalist, and scholar. She is a feminist we love because she boldly continues...
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Conversation Piece: Queer Fashion on Campus
During the 2012 presidential election, there was much conversation among journalists, bloggers, and activists about the innovative ways students were using social media to mobilize...
