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What Mourning Malala Yousafzai Might Mean come November 6th.
By Kim Tran Malala Yousafzai’s shooting galvanized the world, sending tens of thousands of Pakistanis to protest in the streets of Karachi last Sunday. The Taliban’s...
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Secret Survivor: An Interview with Amita Swadhin
On the morning of July 16, 2012, I received a letter from Amita Swadhin, an activist and educator who is at the forefront of the...
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The Spectator Sport of Bashing Black Women
By Sikivu Hutchinson In the 1990s, The O.J. Simpson murder trial polarized America and highlighted domestic violence as a national cause célèbre. At the center...
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A Feminist Review of Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania is an animated movie about a hotel for monsters. The film starts by following the lives of two main characters, Mavis and her...
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My Hair: Threat to National Security
By Ashanté Reese The first time a TSA agent probed my hair I was flying from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. sometime in November 2011. My sister-friend-stylist Shana...
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Sisters of the “Yogic” Yam: bell hooks and the Yoga in Self-Recovery
By Sariane Leigh A 20-something skinny blond leading a yoga class gazed at me with a condescending smirk. I am doing my best to hold...
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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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Disciplining Violence
By Connie Wun Subjected to the State In 2011, Jada Williams, an eighth-grade student in Rochester, New York, wrote an essay based upon her reading...
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Louder Than the Dark: Toward an Acoustics of Suffering
By Nicholas Brady “Fuckin pig get shot 300 men will search for me My brother get popped And don’t no one hear the sound Don’t...
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Phantasmagoria; or, The World is a Haunted Plantation
By Selamawit D. Terrefe This year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival debuted a “holographic” performance by the late Tupac Amaru Shakur. Rather than...
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Andrea Plaid, Associate Editor of Racialicious: The TFW Interview
By Darnell L. Moore and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Racialicious is one of the hottest race and pop culture blog sites to emerge in the social media...
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Walking the “Only” Road: Psychological Tight Spaces
By Shawn Ricks I have always been the child exposed to many different things, and these experiences have, in a way, saved my life. These...
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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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Are We Really That Different from Cicely Bolden?
By Kat Griffith Cicely Bolden was a young woman who was stabbed to death by her boyfriend because of her HIV status. After school, her...
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She Didn’t Deserve To Die
By Precious Jackson I’m saddened to hear about Cicely Bolden’s murder at the hand of her intimate partner when this did not need to happen....
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Massa Mitt Does South of the Border
Over the past few months, the GOP has proudly reveled in Ronald Reagan’s old chestnut that “facts are stupid things.” First, Anne Romney told us...
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On Motherhood and Surviving Sexual Violence
By Gretchen Davidson There are moments in life that lift a curtain and give us a glimpse of what is really propelling us through this...
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I Was Raised By Welfare: A Defense of Social Safety Programs
By Bertha Alvarez Manninen A few houses down from my own, there sits a white Jeep parked in front of a middle-class suburban home. Every...