Culture
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White People Talking to White People about Social Justice: Why “Book of Mormon” Just May Be Doing Something Right
By Sayantani DasGupta Like Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s other collaboration, television’s Southpark, Broadway’s Book of Mormon is crass, potty-mouthed, and frequently offensive. But among all the things...
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Originally Amalia
By Amalia Clarice Mora Life is easier, kinder, and more lenient when you are white, and this may be why George Zimmerman decided to downplay...
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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Reads at Nuyorican Poets Cafe for Fresh Fruit Festival NYC
Even as LGBT characters and “out” celebrities become more common in pop culture and mainstream media, the richness and complexity of real queer lives is...
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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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Conclusion: Shakur or, a Primer on the Difference between Morality and Ethics
for LC and TD All that you meet are thieves: to Athens go, Break open shops; nothing can you steal, But thieves do lose it...
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Assata IS Free
By Safiya Olugbala We would meet in the dreamworld where it was safe for me to ask you anything and no one would hear the...
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Coming Home.
By Happy Mwende Kinyili My name is Mwende and I am a woman. These identities – woman, Kamba, young, sweet – have come easy to...
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The Black as the Thing in Deck-Erinnerung
By Athi Mongezeleli Joja “For the Negro who works on a sugar plantation in Le Robert, there is only one solution: to fight.” – Frantz...
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A Matter of Time
By Amira Davis “I know you are asking today, “How long will it take?” Somebody’s asking, “How long will prejudice blind the visions of men,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Dear Assata: You Are More of a Woman than America Told You
By Christine Ohenewah Recent news about the FBI’s latest addition to their Most Wanted Terrorist list and the strong recommendation of my mentor prompted me...
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Assata: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
by Rizvana Bradley The trial scene that concludes the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God glimpses a specific form of panoptic enclosure that has given...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Black Sitcom: A Representation We Can Be Proud Of
By Jeanine Russaw When you look in the mirror, how do you see yourself? In a perfect world, whenever a black woman looks in a mirror,...
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Dispatch from the 'Very House of Difference': Anti-Black Racism and the Expansion of Sexual Citizenship – OR – We Need to Do So Much Better at Loving Each Other
By Kai M. Green and Treva Ellison We (Treva and Kai) are Black, queer, trans, and anti-capitalist scholars, activists, and artists based in Los Angeles,...
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Indigenous Women: Never Idle
(Photo by Blaire Russell) Every morning this week I have woken up to my email inbox and social media feed filled with inspiring stories and...
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In Conversation: On the Landmark SCOTUS Decisions, Single-Variable Politics and Movement Forward
By Timothy Patrick McCarthy and Darnell L. Moore Darnell: Tim, You have spoken and written publicly about the need—particularly on the part of white and economically privileged...
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Is a picture worth a 1000 words? Race and the politics of mourning
Hank Willis Thomas A couple weeks back, Melissa Harris Perry and her guests discussed the power of images, focusing on the debate as to whether...
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The Princesses of Long Island: A Long Hard Post-Feminist Look in the Mirror
By Shoshanna R. Schechter-Shaffin Like blogger Lindsey Orlofsky, I too watched Bravo’s new series “The Princesses of Long Island” in horror. For those of you...
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What You Don’t Know Can Kill You: Race, Class, and Access to Genetic Cancer Testing
By Duchess Harris and Christine Ohenewah When Professor Harris was in law school, she gave a presentation in her “Feminist Jurisprudence” course on a New...
