History
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Black Feminist Intellectual: A Conversation with Professor Imani Perry
DM: At present, you hold a primary appointment as a Professor within the Center for African American Studies and a secondary appointment in Law and Public...
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South Korea elects first female president
When Park Geun-hye last lived in the presidential Blue House more than 30 years ago, she was a young, stand-in first lady, serving after...
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Navajo man wants the nation to hear its official apology
Buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriations Act, after pages on the maintenance and operation of the U.S. military, is an official...
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Leaving Jesus: Women of Color Beyond Faith
By Sikivu Hutchinson The 24-hour prayer sessions are the true test of a warrior for Jesus. They require Herculean stamina, the patience of Job, the...
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Bad Blood?: The Visibility and Invisibility of Violence in the Antagonism Between Native Americans and African Americans
By Tria Andrews and Olivia Chilcote In Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, Frank B. Wilderson III (2010) triangulates the...
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Tradition Left These
By Royce K. Freeman Critique of tradition happens in the tongue and cheek. It happens while the shadows tend to a bruised back,...
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Sophia Azeb Responds to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Examine the image above carefully. What do you see? No, it’s not a parody from The Onion. It’s actually the cover of this week’s edition...
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Storytelling: Or, Autoethnography in the Academic Industrial Complex
By Mejdulene B. Shomali When my sisters and I were young, we’d ask our father to tell us a story before bedtime. I’m not sure...
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A Letter to Mis(s)-Education*
“Darnell, you can’t write.” I was an eighth-grade student at Morgan Village Middle School in Camden, New Jersey, when you, my Language Arts instructor, reprimanded...
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Antiblack Geographies, or What the Charlotte YMCA and the Confederate Military Have in Common
Did you know that Charlotte’s Central City Dowd YMCA is on the same site as the Confederacy’s North Carolina Military Institute? This does not imply...
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Obama's (Black?) Mama
As Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008, critics charged that he was not “black” enough – that is, that his ancestry did not...
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Striving for Muslim Women's Human Rights
By Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons I am a practicing Muslim and an Islamic scholar who received my Ph.D. with a focus on Islamic law and women...
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Seeing Muslim Women with Western Eyes
By Josh Cerretti I am neither a Muslim nor a woman; however, I am attempting to enact feminism and social justice in the age of...
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Defining Muslim Feminist Politics through Indigenous Solidarity Activism
By Shaista Patel For the last several years, I have identified myself as a Muslim feminist in my activist and grad school circle(s). However, as I...
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Coming Out or Inviting In?: Part I
Increased attention has been given to the notion of “coming out” recently. Many people desire access into the private, sexual spaces of celebrities’ lives as...
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US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (Lesson 3 of 3): On Embodiment at the End of the World
From the series introduction: When I first met Natasha Trethewey she was a visiting fellow at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies and she said...
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3 Lessons from Natasha Trethewey: (Lesson 2) Making the Archive You Need
(Read Lesson 1 here.) From the series intro: When I first met Natasha Trethewey she was a visiting fellow at Duke University’s Center for Documentary...
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Part 1: Natasha Trethewey, Time Travel, and Telekinesis
This is part one of a three-part series celebrating the crucial lessons of the poetic body of work of United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey....