Sexuality
-
Using the Erotic to do Our Work
There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in...
-
There is one path and one path only, it is the path towards embodied liberations
By Jessica Horn Editors Note: We were scheduled to post a reflection by Jessica Horn later in this second week of our global forum celebrating...
-
The Magic and Fury of Audre Lorde: Feminist Praxis and Pedagogy
By Angelique V. Nixon I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic and the noon’s new...
-
On Audre Lorde
By Rev. Dr. Valerie Bridgeman, Hebrew Biblical Scholar Professor Paula Cooey introduced me to the writings of Audre Lorde in a “Women, Religion, and Literature” course at...
-
Rediscovering Audre
By Kathe Sandler The modern Black feminist movement was percolating when I was a child and I hardly knew it. Looking back all the signs...
-
My Coming Out As Black / Mein Schwarzes Coming Out
By Ria Cheatom (English translation by Cassandra Ellerbe-Dück) In January 1987, a white German girlfriend gave me a copy of the book Farbe Bekennen – Afro-deutsche...
-
Audre Lorde at 80
By Cheryl Clarke Editors note: Since this is a special 80th birthday anniversary forum in celebration of one of our ancestor heroines, and Cheryl Clarke...
-
Personal is Political: Accepting, Nurturing, Celebrating the Black Mother Within
By Ness white “The Black mother who is the poet in every one of us…that back place where we keep those unnamed, untamed longings for...
-
For Lucia Mcbath, Sybrina Fulton and All Other Black Mothers Who’ve Considered Righteous Rage When Black Respectability Politics Ain’t Enough
In “What is this “black” in black popular culture? (Rethinking Race),” the late, great cultural theorist Stuart Hall, poignantly asks, “What sort of moment is...
-
On Michael Sam Coming Out
By Cheryl Cooky Nearly a year ago today, I was invited to deliver a lecture to the students at Wabash College (a small, all-male, liberal...
-
Personal is Political: Sexual Identity and “Nigerian Culture”
By Adejoke Tugbiyele I was born in Brooklyn, New York to Nigerian parents. Like most children of immigrants, it became clear to me that survival...
-
Feminists We Love: Farah Tanis
Farah Tanis is a transnational feminist and human rights activist. She is co-founder and Executive Director of the Black Feminist Organization Black Women’s Blueprint. She...
-
Patriarchal PONTIFICATIONS, and the Problem of “Justice”
By Zillah Eisenstein Pope Francis criticizes unbridled capitalism for its injustice. He has been applauded widely and loudly for this and he should be. But...
-
COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Understanding My Juicy Thighs, Thanks to Jenny from the Block
By Jamie McKaie The biography sat on the bookshelf of my fourth grade classroom, as if patiently waiting for me. The bell rang. Ring. I ran for...
-
Katniss and Anastasia: Mismatched Heroines in a Shared Hell
By Lucy Berrington Why does America’s confused cultural gaze keep landing on two such mismatched literary heroines as Katniss Everdeen and Anastasia Steele? One is...
-
An Open Letter to My Transgender Brothers on World AIDS Day 2013
By Kai M. Green Dear Kinfolk: Today is World Aids Day. Today, I remember those who we have lost. I remember the ancestors we have...
-
Artist Sophia Wallace Responds to CLITERACY Critiques
By Sophia Wallace As an artist, my job is to explore an idea aesthetically and then share my work with the public. In this light,...
-
COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Lily Allen Peddles the Same Racist Tropes Through White Privilege Narrative
By Mohadesa Najumi Lily Allen’s “Hard Out Here” video has not been circulating the Internet unscathed. If you haven’t seen it, it is a largely...
