Racism
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Illegible[1] Black Death: Denied Media, Mourning, and Mobilization
**** Breaking News Los Angeles International Airport: Gunman opens fire at Airport, killing 1 and injuring 6 more Washington Navy Yard: Gunman opens fire, killing...
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Mourning Those Lost, Fighting for Our Lives: 2013 Transgender Day of Remembrance
By Princess Harmony Imagine this: you’re born to the outside world being as healthy as you could possibly be. Imagine that while the world is...
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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...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: No Fat, No Femme: The Politics of Grindr
By Nick Artrip I turn on my phone and allow my fingers to scroll across the numerous apps. I select “Grindr” and smile with anticipation. So...
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Feminists We Love: Caitlin Breedlove & SONG
Southerners on New Ground (aka SONG) has been driving intersectional queer organizing in the South since 1993. Mobilizing across race, class, gender, citizenship status, sexuality...
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The Color of Teaching: Expectations of Mammy in the Classroom
By Manya Whitaker On October 24, 2013 the Center for American Progress released a report, The State of Women of Color in the United States. In...
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What the Fashion World’s Minstrel Shows Mean for Real African Designers
By Tanwi Nandini Islam Every Halloween season, a new crop of blackface horror stories appears in the news. Word of Saturday night’s annual Hallowood “Disco...
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Segregated Sisterhoods and the Mercurial Politics of Racial Truth-Telling
By Shannen Dee Williams “Young lady, you just told my story. In 1952, I was denied admission to the Sisters of Saint Joseph ...
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Blue State Blues
By Kavita Das In January of 2008, I found myself threading my way out of the crowded living room of a friend’s Brooklyn apartment, where...
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“Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not)”: A Flawed Critique of Columbus Day that Omits Indigenous Peoples in Present Day and Virtually Ignores the Enslavement of African Americans
By Tria Andrews A misguided essay-comic titled “Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not)” was recently posted on by Matthew Inman on The...
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Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy (A conversation with editor Sekile Nzinga-Johnson)
Sekile Nzinga-Johnson is a BADDDDD sista in the Sonia Sanchez sense. She is a mother, educator, scholar, ruler of the roller derby scene as Malice...
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Disposable Children: Whiteness, Heterosexism and the Murder of Lawrence King
It isn’t until the end of director Marta Cunningham’s new HBO documentary film Valentine Road, the gut-wrenching chronicle of the 2008 classroom murder of 15...
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The Government Shutdown, Rape and Other Extortions of Assets
By Farah Tanis For many in this movement to end rape and address the intersecting, crosscutting and causal factors that perpetuate it, a government shutdown...
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Feminists We Love: Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Chandra Talpade Mohanty (born in Mumbai India in 1955) is a postcolonial and transnational feminist theorist. She has degrees from University of Delhi and University...
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Forum on Brown Feminism(s)
By Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, Shubhra Sharma, and Sophia Villarreal-Licona DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 1, 2014 At times, it feels like conversations about race in the U.S....
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#BlameFeminism: For the Hurt & the Hustle
By Tanwi Nandini Islam Feminism is the hustle to survive in a world that does not care about you. The latest Internet satire tells us...
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Justice for Marissa! Set her Free! (Read and Sign)
By Zillah Eisenstein October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Marissa Alexander was imprisoned in 2010 for 20 years after trying to defend herself from a...
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Miss America is Indian-American: Yay, I think. Or not.
By Archana A. Pathak Two weeks ago, an Indian-American woman won Miss America, and the ensuing days elicited varying commentaries on this “historic moment.” It...
