Violence
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#FergusonFridays: White Anti-Racism, Social Media, and the Problem of Self-Serving Allying
Since Michael Brown’s murder, the Internet has been abuzz with content focusing on what white people could and should do to counter racism. Others have...
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Anti-Imperial Feminist Musings in Morocco
By Zillah Eisenstein I traveled to Fez and Casablanca, Morocco, earlier this month to dialogue with Islamic Feminists there and to see, feel, and stretch...
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Elementary Feminisms: A Call to Young Women
By Shama Nathan Recently, I came across an old post that had quickly surfaced on Tumblr. The post was discussing the problem with teaching girls...
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#FergusonFridays: If it wasn’t for the women…[i]
The reality is that the women and girls are the fabric of the community and hold all together. The women usually think and work for...
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The Limits of Speaking on Catastrophe: Confessions of a Palestinian Teacher
By Diya Abdo I am a Professor of English at Guilford College. I am Chair of the English Department. I am a faculty member in...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Perseverance Conquers: An Open Letter
By Princess Harmony-Jazmyne Rodriguez The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and...
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Lessons From Ferguson
By Tamura Lomax, Stephanie Troutman, and Heather Laine Talley One week ago, we traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, a place that has drawn the attention of...
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Better Off Dead: Black Women Speak to the United Nations CERD Committee
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Farah Tanis With each of our dead, we mourn the loss of a piece of ourselves and with each of our raped...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Three Poems by Samiya Javed
By Samiya Javed “You’re a King and I’m a Lion-heart” * I’d rather you curse your stars than curse my mother’s overburdened...
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Feminists We Love: Crista Noel, Africana Womanist
I first met Sister Crista Noel in August 2014 when we were in Geneva, Switzerland during the United Nations’ CERD (Committee on the Elimination of...
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Not all Black women.
By Nikki Patin Fat? Nope. You’re too unhealthy. Poor? Nope. You don’t know how to manage your money. Light and got the nerve to say...
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Let Our Ears Tingle with Truth
By Keri Day Victor Hugo powerfully stated, “The guilty one is not he who commits the sin in the dark, but he who causes the...
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“When are we going to wake up?” Anti-Blackness, Police Power, and Profit
By Beryl Satter “…a black woman, Mrs. Jones, wrote to Mayor Daley because her son was beaten to death by several white cops…over a traffic...
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The Price of Blackness: From Ferguson to Bed-Stuy
The unsettling image of the lifeless body of 18-year old Mike Brown, the unarmed teen shot six times by Officer Darren Wilson, which laid prostrate before...
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The Violence, Anti-Blackness, and Black Life Matters Forum: An Introduction
The recent shooting and murder of 18-year old Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, galvanized a local movement for justice on behalf...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Bringing “All” to the Tent of Communal Healing
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes Inspired by the story of a Black enslaved woman, Margaret Garner, Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved explores the narrative of Sethe,...
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The Color of Infant Mortality
“A pickup truck and a backhoe show up on the days, usually Tuesdays and Thursdays with good weather, when babies are buried at the county...
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What More Can I Say? (A prose-poem on antiblackness)
By C. Riley Snorton “…he grammar of their suffering–was indeed an ethical grammar. Perhaps it is the only ethical grammar…for it draws our attention not...
