Activism
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The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read Dr. Joy James’ response to the “Chicago...
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A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read and certainly be inspired by this collective statement...
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Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
By. Dr. G & Dr. Kimberly S. Love “The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference...
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#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
By Andrea Plaid I’m not even sure who Rev. Jasper Williams was talking about in his eulogy. I know it wasn’t Mother Franklin. Not the...
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#eulogizingaretha: A Celebration of Life
By Nettrice Gaskins When Aretha sang, the birds, though they sang sweetly, hushed of their own accord. On August 31, the world witnessed a Celebration...
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#eulogizingaretha: For Aretha
By Frances Gaillard Parker In 1970, I considered myself a “supporter” of The Soledad Brothers and Angela Davis. I entered high school in the fall...
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#eulogizingaretha: An Introduction (and contextualization)
A little over a week ago, after sitting through seven-plus hours of Black Church homegoing bliss fit for a queen, many of us sat in utter...
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IT IS TIME — #Feminism4the99
By Zillah Eisenstein On March 8th women—in our complex identities—across the globe and across the U.S. will join together to make our resistance against the exploitation...
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Uncoddling White Women: An Interview with Community Organizer Becky Rafter
By Amanda Hendler-Voss Becky Rafter could have been among the 67% of white women voters in Alabama who cast their lot with Roy Moore. She grew...
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On Censorship and Scientific Integrity in Difficult Times
By Monica J. Casper and Jonathan M. Metzl “CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words.” This was the headline of a December 15th Washington Post story...
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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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Trans Multitudes and Death Reality: A Coda
Tw; Death Reality. I’ve come to accept that I will die. I know this. And frightening it is But I refuse to live in...
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Multitudes
By Sasha Alexander “ISLAN (WON’T YOU CELBRATE) ft. Lucille Clifton” – track created by Sasha Alexander. In August 2014 I was teaching and...
