Black Women
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Day of the Girl: Celebrating the Beauty that is J’dah Thibeaux
Twenty-two years ago I met a friend for life; one of the most sincere, supportive, and loving people you’ll ever meet. Seven years later, my...
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The Government Shutdown, Rape and Other Extortions of Assets
By Farah Tanis For many in this movement to end rape and address the intersecting, crosscutting and causal factors that perpetuate it, a government shutdown...
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Justice for Marissa! Set her Free! (Read and Sign)
By Zillah Eisenstein October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Marissa Alexander was imprisoned in 2010 for 20 years after trying to defend herself from a...
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Op-Ed: Law Enforcement Violence Against Black Women
Tasasha Henderson Many of us know and remember the names of Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, and Kimani Gray, all young, Black men who were murdered...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Blonde Success: Fact or Myth?
By Ravon Ruffin and James “JP” Miller Do gentlemen really prefer blondes or has a history of fetishization of “the blonde” by media made it more...
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Love Notes in Four Parts
By Katrina Otuonye Like Letters …..I used to have dreams where I would read anonymous letters sent to my house. …..“I do not love you,”...
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She Called Me a Poet
By Candy Taaffe August 9, 2009 Finally official. . The love and mutual respect is what inspires the truth, ………….and the desire ………….to make happen...
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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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Dear Facebook Friend: A Primer on Racism
By LaKisha Simmons In response to your racist memes and our ensuing discussion. You believe that race “doesn’t matter in today’s day,” that you treat all...
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Miley’s Big Foam Finger Is Pointing At You: Stereotypes Plus Objectification Equals $$$
By Hope Wabuke I swore I wasn’t going to write about Miley Cyrus. Enough people have already done it. Enough good ink has been spilled...
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Race and The Invisible Cloak of “Black”
By Kuukua Yomekpe Two years into living in the U.S. a carload of Anglo American boys tried to run my two younger sisters and me over...
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Finding Her Mother’s Gardens: A Review of Pratibha Parmar’s “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth”
Black women have tended to incredible, secluded gardens within the expansive wasteland of this dysfunctional democracy.–Joy James, from “Resting in the Gardens, Battling in the...
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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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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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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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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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Fiction Feature: "Planets" by Kaitlyn Greenidge
By Kaitlyn Greenidge We the only girls who leave our walk. We the only girls that travel. All the other girls on our walk,...
