Health
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Black Women, Black Criticism, and the Unremovable Veil of Jezebel
In her groundbreaking text, Hine Sight: Black Women and the Reconstruction of American History, black feminist scholar Darlene Clark Hine makes a distinction between black...
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Dead Center
By LeConté J. Dill The subject of Black Academic Women’s Health beckons an autoethnographic approach: October 2006. Excited to get new specs. “E D F C...
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Should-ing All Over Ourselves
By Koritha Mitchell In November 2001, right before I began writing my dissertation, I experienced one of the defining moments of my life. I had...
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Black, Female and Buddhist in Academia: Threats to Wellness and Opportunities for Healing
By Kamilah Majied Renown educator and Buddhist leader, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda offers a vision for academia when he states, Education makes us free. It is...
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Out of the Shadows: A Conversation with Evelyn C. White
“For every well-known black woman whose death has been noted and marked, there are countless other black women who have died in the shadows. These...
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It is not worth the grief: A recovering work addict tries to model self-care
By J. Victoria Sanders I first dreamed of being a professor and writer in seventh grade after reading Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life by...
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It's Not The Load That Breaks You Down; It's The Way You Carry It
By Kamilah Aisha Moon Five strong, consistent years as an adjunct professor. So what? So what you spend extra, unpaid hours assisting students who arrive needing...
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Occupying Myself: Resisting the Colonial Voices Within and Accepting My Heaviness
By Erin “Mari” Morales-Williams Right now I am depressed. My aunt’s husband sexually violated me when I was a teenager, and since she is still...
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With Audre as My Guide: Teaching and Surviving in Post Katrina New Orleans
By Sandra E. Weissinger I started my career as a sociologist in New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina. The school I worked at still...
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I’m Exhausted but I Do Want to Be Well: Raising Womanish Girls, the Performance of Mothering and Wading in Murky Waters
By Melva L. Sampson I am exhausted! It is exhaustion that overwhelms and overruns me because of its deep-seated roots. Roots that make one question...
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Good Night Women
"ripping hot and fierce down the night sky till they are out of our pining sight, too quickly, more frequently than we can bear, their incandescent metal, incinerating,...
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The Shape of My Impact
Sounds to Me Like A Promise: On Survival (After Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years by Dagmaar Schultz) “I love the word survival, it always sounds...
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Under Ivory-Tower Eyes: Influence of Womanist Warriors as Public Intellectuals
By Lindah Mhando This is a dedication to my dear sister friend Aaronette White. The use of the word “warrior” doesn’t suggest women as warmongers ready...
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Can I Live?
By Analena Hope “Can I live?” This simple yet resounding question has been posed a number of times in different ways by Black feminists within...
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Black (Academic) Women's Health: To Be in Context
By Tressie McMillan Cottom My great grandmother used to pay me to talk, about anything and nothing. She just “loved to hear that child speak!”...
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White Rage, Black Obama
Reflections on the DNC: Part 2 The hysteria that characterizes these commotions convinces me that the current American political...
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Secret Survivor: An Interview with Amita Swadhin
On the morning of July 16, 2012, I received a letter from Amita Swadhin, an activist and educator who is at the forefront of the...
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Sisters of the “Yogic” Yam: bell hooks and the Yoga in Self-Recovery
By Sariane Leigh A 20-something skinny blond leading a yoga class gazed at me with a condescending smirk. I am doing my best to hold...