Television
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Critical Analysis of Orange Is The New Black: The Appropriation Of Women Of Color
By Mohadesa Najumi Since finishing NetFlix’s hit new series “Orange Is the New Black” about a 32-year old white woman named Piper Chapman, who serves 15 months...
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Lee Daniels’ Double Consciousness
By Frank Roberts In a formative scene that occurs about midway through Lee Daniels’ The Butler, audiences are presented with imagery from two widely divergent events...
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The Princesses of Long Island: A Long Hard Post-Feminist Look in the Mirror
By Shoshanna R. Schechter-Shaffin Like blogger Lindsey Orlofsky, I too watched Bravo’s new series “The Princesses of Long Island” in horror. For those of you...
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Charles Ramsey, Viral Video, and American Self-Image
Sarah Mantilla Griffin Charles Ramsey, the hero who recently rescued Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight from a decade of captivity, has become the...
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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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Andrea Plaid on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show
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Feminists We Love: Joan Morgan (Video)
Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist, author and a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The...
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Taking the white man-boy seriously
By Kyle Kusz The white man-boy is the most important cultural figure in America today. Hyperbole? Maybe. But, allow me to make a case that...
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Take the Shackles Off My Feet So I Can Dance*: A Call to End Gender Policing
By Robert Jones, Jr. Real men aren’t polite; politeness is for sissies. Body posturing is everything; real men don’t cross their legs at the knee...
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Taunts, Tweets, and Black Girl Genius
By Salamishah Tillet “Baby girl genius,” is what I muttered when I saw Quvenzhané Wallis shine bright on the television screen last Oscar Sunday night. Beaming...
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(Insert Witty Scandal-Related Title Here): Continuing the Dialogue
By Brandon T. Maxwell The following is an attempt to respond to some of the critiques of my article, “Olivia Pope and The Scandal of...
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Love In a Time of Scandal
By Brittney Cooper and Treva Lindsey The following conversation took place on Sunday, February 10th, 2013. What began as a Facebook conversation among several dynamic black feminists/womanists...
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Olivia Pope and the Scandal of Representation
By Brandon Maxwell On April 5, 2012 Shonda Rhimes premiered yet another television drama that would entice millions of viewers to faithfully return to their...
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A Black Feminist Comment on The Sisterhood, The Black Church, Ratchetness and Geist
There’s been much talk about TLC’s new show The Sisterhood, a reality show about the lives and struggles of Ivy Couch, Domonique Scott, Christina Murray, DeLana Rutherford,...
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Exhuming the Ratchet before it’s Buried
Recently, social media was set ablaze after Oxygen revealed it was developing a reality TV show featuring rapper Shawty Lo (real name Carlos Walker) entitled,...
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TFW: The Year in Review
With the intertwined mission of fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives, 2012 gave our contributors no shortage of topics about which to write. We saw...
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Not the Belle of the Ball: Bernice, An Unconventional Girl About Town in Jennifer Lopez’s "South Beach Tow"
By Lillie Anne Brown It was, at first, a voyeuristic peek during an untailored pass-by, a fleeting look here, a backward glance there, one foot...
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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...
