Black Women
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June Jordan Solves the Energy Crisis: Love is Lifeforce
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Not many people are turning to black feminist texts from the 1970s as their major strategy for addressing the current climate...
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“Defeat Will Be Detestable to Us”: A Tribute to June Jordan
And now, I hung on to June Jordan’s every word. I watched her on screen in Pratibha Parmar’s A Place of Rage. Her words were...
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martina pronounces her own name (ode to June Jordan)
By Martina “Mick” Powell for June Jordan this is how i learn it: her black and in cropped cut and singsong her in a summer water, the florida of it...
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A Love Note to June Jordan from Margo Okazawa-Rey
You loved South African women struggling to Free South Africa and wrote for them “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Your love of...
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For June
In our current times of collective struggle’s reinvigoration, the life and works of June Jordan provide vital lessons. Writing between the 1960s and the early...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Is Shonda Rhimes a Feminist?
By Alexander Stoffel Season five of Shonda Rhimes’s wildly popular show Scandal drew approximately eight million viewers per episode. What does it mean to...
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Dreaming of a (Feminist) Revolution
By Zillah Eisenstein This is an offering for after “Super-Tuesday’s” outcome…when many of us are beginning to think that we will have to vote for...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, (F)Act of Blackness: The Politics of Mixed Race Identity
By Jazlyn Andrews “That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and...
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Black Women Reclaim the Conversation on Racism Worldwide
The last two years have seen an upsurge of highly-visible demonstrations and growing movements against racism across the world, from #BlackLivesMatter in the United States...
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“All Lives Matter Act” Is a Blatant Attack on Black Female Bodies in Missouri
By Christine Assefa The deaths of Michael Brown, Jr., Vonderitt Myers, Jr., Kim King, and Kajieme Powell, and the Ferguson Uprising, thrust Missouri into the...
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Front Line Defenders Dublin Platform Testimony
By Charlene Carruthers I gave this speech in Dublin, Ireland before the release of video showing the execution of Laquan McDonald by Chicago Police Officer...
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In Support of Black Girls’ Defiance
By Connie Wun Much of mainstream America witnessed the police brutality that took place at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina, in which a Black...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, for the professor who hurt me & got away with it
By Martina “Mick” Powell *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* i will let you have this...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Sexual Consent in NOT Color-Blind: A Black Feminist Call Against NYU’s Neoliberal Politics and White Feminist Ideologies
By Akiera Xavina Charles *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* As a humble Afro-Caribbean, Bedstuy native,...
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An Apology for All Occasions
By Shana L. Redmond Those of us paying attention are familiar with this scene: a high profile event, a spectacular disruption, and a resultant public...
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For Black Men Who Consider Sexism When Assimilation is Not Enough
By Jallicia Allicia Jolly This is a purely womanist message/ode to the SHEroes served on a fuck-these-systems platter. Sprinkled with revolutionary Black women wisdom (RBW), it...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, What I Owe
By Brendane Tynes *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* This piece was performed during a class...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, A Report on #WeAreHere: The Collective
By Lynden Harris and Madeleine Lambert *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* Inked in black...
