Activism
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Abused Goddesses, Orientalism and the Glamorization of Gender-Based Violence
By Sayantani DasGupta The Abused Goddesses of India. The advertisements, created by Mumbai-based ad firm Taproot India, have been making the rounds – not only...
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Love Note: Anamaría Flores on Love as a Radical Act
By Anamaría Flores In a white male supremacist heteronormative puritanical judeo-christian culture such as the one that characterizes the united states, the most revolutionary act...
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On Love, Action, and Lesbian-Feminism
By Julie R. Enszer Writing about lesbian-feminist publishers in the 1970s and 1980s, I am haunted. Often I wake with a fragment from a poem...
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An Open Letter to Our Sister, CeCe McDonald
By Brothers Writing to Live Dear CeCe, This letter to you, sister, is past due. We are late to the struggle. And for that we...
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Op-Ed: When A Mother Chooses the Pump
By Swati Marquez Three days after I gave birth — following 54 hours of labor, including eighteen hours of IV fluids that left me (and...
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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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LGBTQ Film Feature: “U People” Fifth Anniversary Interview with Hanifah Walidah
Nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2010, U People is a music video, a documentary LGBT film, and a...
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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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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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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: 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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What Activists and Advocates Taught Us About the Future of Reproductive Justice
By Ed Goldman, Alexandra Minna Stern, Timothy Johnson, and Lisa Harris of the Program in Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice, University of Michigan In spring...
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Carrying Trayvon’s Body: What is to be done?
By Shana Redmond To live in this world as Black people is to be confronted by the possibility of harm at every turn, to live...
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White Feminists and Trayvon Martin
By Debra Guckenheimer Gender and racial inequality are intertwined in ways the Trayvon Martin case highlighted. Historically, the safety of White women has been used...
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To Sustain and Nourish Us as We Work for Justice
By Chris Crass To the mother who shared the story of her heart breaking when her six-year old autistic son told her, “don’t worry mom,...
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A Statement on the Reclamation of All Black Life: For Trayvon, Marissa, & Jordan
By Brothers Writing to Live We begin this collective statement by proclaiming a truth that has been rehearsed on countless occasions by many before us: The...
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“We’re” Not Raising Trayvon: The Difference Whiteness Makes
In the hours and days following the Zimmerman verdict, a kind of racial segregation has re-surfaced, not in formal, legal terms but with regard to...
