Racism
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Race and Community Accountability
By Qui Dorian Alexander I came into feminism as a butch Latina lesbian at a women’s college. Today I stand as a brown queer trans...
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Feminists We Love: Stephanie Gilmore
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Darnell L. Moore Stephanie Gilmore is an antiracist queer feminist scholar-activist who engages activism through education and writing. She facilitates...
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I’m Complicated, Just like Feminisms: A Black and White Feminist Working It Out (Part I)
Dr. Connie Ruzich and I first met soon after I walked onto the Robert Morris University campus in 1999. I thought I’d become a Finance...
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Un-Raced in Transit : Colorblindness and the Stakes of Speaking Up
By Marlaina H. Martin For every one of the countless times that I have thought about race, I can name a handful in which I...
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Film: "Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights" by Nevline Nnaji
Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights is a feature-length documentary that focuses on black women’s marginalization between the Black Power and Feminist movements, as...
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Tilting At Windmills
By Rebecca Miriam The thing is: you can let it go. You can shut down your browser, or throw away that newspaper, or turn off your...
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No Easy Walk to ‘Total Freedom’
By Josh Cerretti and Theresa Warburton What does it mean for a white person living in a white supremacist society to label themselves an ‘anti-racist...
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Reckoning: Race and Sexual Assault in Colombia
By Stacia Penn I am a young black American living in Colombia. My life in Medellin has been a multi-faceted privilege, affording me access to...
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Your Feminism Ain’t Like Ours, Because We Are Raising Quvenzhané
By Duchess Harris In Lonnae O’Neal Parker’s January 18 Washington Post article “Four Years Later, Feminists Split by Michelle Obama’s ‘Work’ as First Lady,” she includes a...
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The Many-Headed Hydra: A Sentimental Nature Poem
By Debbie Hu oh ghost of double-headed neglected sunflower... are you arching your spine towards this literally splendiferous sunrise, are you inclining your double ghost...
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The Tragedy of a Failed Politic
By Farah Tanis, Kalima DeSuze, and Nikki Patin Black Women’s Blueprint It is over 180 years since the abolition movement, 165 years since women’s suffrage,...
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Across Difference, Toward Liberation: An Introduction to TFW’s Forum on Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminism
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Heather Laine Talley Perhaps in this twenty-four hour news cycle culture, the horrid sexist and racist sexualization of nine-year old...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: You Become an Anti-Racist Feminist
By Cori Mattli When you are 18 and in college, you take a class that introduces you to feminism. You like thinking about feminist theory–it gives...
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First To Die: Evil Dead and Blackness in Horror
By Joshua Alston The victor in this weekend’s box-office battle was Evil Dead, the remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult-classic horror film, which roared into...
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Deadline Approaching: Call for Submissions for TFW forum on "Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminisms"
In 1979, Black socialist feminist lesbian writer, scholar, and organizer Barbara Smith stood in front of the National Association of Women’s Studies and said the...
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Op-Ed: Jack Johnson and the Racial Politics of a Presidential Pardon
On March 5, U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-NV), John McCain (R-AZ), William “Mo” Cowan (D-MA) and U.S. Representative Peter King (R-NY) put forth a resolution...
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Masculinity and Domestic Violence: A Conversation with Sally MacNichol and Quentin Walcott, Co-Executive Directors of CONNECT
Quentin: It’s interesting that Sally and I were invited to talk about masculinity and domestic violence; these are two issues that are often seen as...
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The Shapings of Black Masculinities
The B52 bus picks up passengers on the corner of Gates and Lewis Avenue in the mostly working poor to middle class, black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood...