Black Girls
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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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Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
We are pleased to announce the publication of Tamura Lomax’s new book, Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture (Duke University Press),...
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#eulogizingaretha: A Tribute to the Queen of Soul
By Heather-Elizabeth Brown Queen Aretha Franklin. Her voice soars and floats, high above this world, transporting us to a place of ethereal oneness with God,...
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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: From a Daughter Whose Mother Loved Aretha
By Idrissa Simmonds There is a generation of Black girls born at a time when our mothers spoke the name Aretha in the house with...
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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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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...
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Entanglement
By Che Gossett Entanglement: “the articulation of a theory is gathering place, sometimes a point of rest as the process rushes on, insisting that...
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– Luanda calling, Berlin burning – (Stop)
By WoMANtís RANDom Paris warning, London BrrreX -that’s it. I’ll go ahead after I got head. Abra accompanies this written piece with „Crybaby“. I have...
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Black, Trans, & Still Breathing
By KOKUMO it all started in a slave-ship the belly of a beast whose appetite your ancestors could neva’ satisfy but that didn’t...
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Take Me to the Water
By Amari Xolá Rasin Think about the consciousness and memory of water and how it mirrors our body and attachment to memory The waters...
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some call it a comeback
By SA Smythe some call it a comeback i just got back & already feel the need to time travel again. not the way that...
