All posts by Guest Contributor
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Armor
By Jac’leen Smith The intended purpose of armor is to protect. To use in combat. To shield the exterior from harm. But what happens when...
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You Have No Idea
By Brittany “Beebs” Burton Until you’ve been raped, you have no idea what it’s like. You don’t know what it’s like to walk into a...
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Lee Daniels’ Double Consciousness
By Frank Roberts In a formative scene that occurs about midway through Lee Daniels’ The Butler, audiences are presented with imagery from two widely divergent events...
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Yale’s Response to Campus Rape is Not Enough
By Sukjong Hong I long for the day when a woman can speak about her experience of rape with all the force of her convictions, as...
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Op-Ed: Not Okay, Uncle Rush
By Darrian Wesley Thomas Dear Uncle Rush, Pull up a chair. We need to handle some family business. So, I saw the “Harriet Tubman Sex...
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Deliberate Gaze: Trayvon Martin as Interloper, Outsider, Other
By Lillie Anne Brown A few years ago, an African American comedian joked about having to move in with his mother because he was down on...
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#BlackPowerIsForBlackMen: Letters from Brothers Writing to Live
By Brothers Writing to Live We are a collective of black men dedicated to challenging the ideas of black masculinity and manhood through the written...
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if God can Cook / you Know I can: Pedagogy of Those Opting-Out of Oppression
By Carrie Y. T. Kholi As a poet/scholar, I’m having a difficult time labeling this piece. It feels like a tough lesson from my favorite instructors,...
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My Dollhouse, Myself: Miniature Histories
By Nicole Cooley In the Dollhouse Nursery Painted sea foam green, the nursery you arrange on the top floor of your dollhouse has enough...
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The Aisle of Ethnicity
By Carima Nur I am shopping with my mother at Giant; the top of my braided head barely meets the counter of the register while...
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Ad Matrem: Attachment Parenting, Feminism, and Catfights
By Keira V. Williams Last summer, the world—or at least the American media—momentarily freaked out over attachment parenting, the parenting style that posits that children develop...
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To Nurture and Protect
By Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW Recently, comic Louis C.K. joked in his HBO special, How do women still go out with guys, when you consider...
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Op-Ed: Black Elders Need to Stop Demonizing Black Youth
By Aaron Talley Sometimes, I shudder to think that many of the Black elders fighting against Trayvon Martin’s death might have actually held the same...
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Hip-Hop as Performance Art: Jay Z, Appropriation, and Critiques of Whiteness
By Janell Hobson At first, I wasn’t sure what to make of Jay Z’s performance of “Picasso Baby,” featured on his new album Magna Carter...
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Don Lemon and the Vilification of Unwed Mothers
By Rabi’a Hakima The intersection between racism and sexism is where a brown-skinned male news anchor can, from his privileged position of maleness, propose to...
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White People Talking to White People about Social Justice: Why “Book of Mormon” Just May Be Doing Something Right
By Sayantani DasGupta Like Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s other collaboration, television’s Southpark, Broadway’s Book of Mormon is crass, potty-mouthed, and frequently offensive. But among all the things...
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Whose (In)Justice? Whose Tears? Whose Peace?
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing in the hopes of coalition building: civil rights/sex/gender/economic/environmental justice movements. And I am writing while remembering the Central Park...
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Op-Ed: Feminism versus Humanism: Susan Sarandon and the Vanishing Politics of Gender
By Emily Lindsay Jackson In an interview with British newspaper The Observer on June 30, 2013, actor Susan Sarandon calls herself a humanist, not a...
