Culture
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Black History Remix: Nicki Minaj, Self-Defense, and Black Women’s Suppressed Histories
By Janell Hobson Just a few days before Valentine’s Day and in the midst of Black History Month, pop star and rapper Nicki Minaj...
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Why Is Academic Writing So Beautiful? Notes on Black Feminist Scholarship
By Emily Lordi The title of this piece responds to Joshua Rothman’s recent essay for the New Yorker blog, “Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?”,...
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Spike Jonze’s Her: Loneliness, Race, & Digital Polyamory
By Edgar Rivera Colón Spike Jonze’s Her is a cinematic tour de force, but it’s also a multi-layered cultural document of the present. Her, starring...
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Black Female Too-Muchness: Between Hypersexual Norms and Respectable Exceptions
By Janell Hobson Ten years ago, pop star Janet Jackson received the brunt of public outrage – which culminated in FCC fines – when Justin...
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A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia
A Review of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia By Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde Women of color in academia are at...
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(En)Gendering Greatness: Caught Between Richard Sherman and a Hard Place
By Tikia K. Hamilton “I’m the shit!” You will probably never hear me utter these words, even though, on most days, I must quietly remind...
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Sunny Days?: Sesame Street, Prisons and the Politics of Justice
With Nelson Mandela’s funeral on the television, Sammy, who is 6, turned to me with a question that quickly grabbed my attention. Having already discussed...
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How I Use Pinterest To Explore the Difficulties of Violence Against Black Women and Girls
By Sonya Donaldson When I first used Pinterest, it was with the same intent and fervor of many of those who create boards that feature fashion,...
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Because Someday Someone Should Ask, “Do You Remember Where You Were When Amiri Baraka Died?”
By khoLi All those major events we lived through. If we responded to them as conscious Black intellectuals, we had to try to become soldiers ourselves. That...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: I am a girl
By Rasheé Johnson I am a girl With imperfect skin With imperfect intentions I am an imperfect person With a strong spirit But with strong...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Understanding My Juicy Thighs, Thanks to Jenny from the Block
By Jamie McKaie The biography sat on the bookshelf of my fourth grade classroom, as if patiently waiting for me. The bell rang. Ring. I ran for...
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Katniss and Anastasia: Mismatched Heroines in a Shared Hell
By Lucy Berrington Why does America’s confused cultural gaze keep landing on two such mismatched literary heroines as Katniss Everdeen and Anastasia Steele? One is...
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Artist Sophia Wallace Responds to CLITERACY Critiques
By Sophia Wallace As an artist, my job is to explore an idea aesthetically and then share my work with the public. In this light,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Letter To All Women Who Have Been Told To Quieten Down, Speak Softer and Be Less Angry
By Mohadesa Najumi Dedicated to my Mother, Kateryna, Hala, Kim, Gabby and @buonasahra Dear woman who has been told to quieten down, speak softer and be less...
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We Exist In Darkness (Living at the Intersections)
By: Naomi Ortiz Intersectionality is described by dominant culture as the location where all of our multiple identities intersect. However, my identities are not straight...
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All In a Day’s Work, or An Incomplete (Chronic)le of Illness
By Alli Yates Writing about my chronic illness is a tricky undertaking. Sitting, thinking, and expressing myself will almost certainly render my body more aching,...
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My Place in This Conversation
By Alison Piepmeier I wasn’t forced to recognize my participation in oppressive systems related to disability until 2006, when activist and author Harriet McBryde Johnson...
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Imagining Patsey’s Rescue by Harriet Tubman (Or, Marie Laveau’s Vengeance)
By Janell Hobson Having seen 12 Years a Slave twice (first at a fundraising event and later at a private screening and discussion), I am...
