Search results for "black academia"
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Personal is Political: Trying to Understand (Critique): A Daughter’s Prayer
By Shelby Crosby I began asking why as soon as I learned the word. To critique seems intuitive to me. To move beyond critique, even...
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Treva B. Lindsey: The Future and the Now
Dr. Treva B. Lindsey is very much the future – of black popular cultural studies, feminist scholarship, social media activism, and so much more. Someone...
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Toward a Feminist Politics of De-Criminalization and Abolition: Why We Support Dr. Mireille Miller-Young
By Tamara L. Spira and Heather M. Turcotte We contest the criminalization of UC Santa Barbara feminist studies professor, Dr. Mireille Miller-Young. As feminists dedicated...
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Personal is Political: Reconciling Feeling and Thinking: A Call to Action in the Name of Difference
By Rachel Edwards As a student in the first graduate class taught by Aishah Shahidah Simmons dedicated to the study of Audre Lorde’s life and...
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The Reception of Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 – Voices From Around The World
By Dagmar Schultz With this contribution I want to relate a few of the many voices that illuminated Audre Lorde’s impact after viewing the film“Audre Lorde...
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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...
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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...
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Fixing the World: A Feminist Intervention
Recently, NYU Press published 22 Ideas to Fix the World, edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa. It’s a fine book, full of smart, engaging, and...
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Feminists We Love: Jackson Katz
After earning a a Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and Education from UCLA, Jackson Katz...
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A Dialogue of Love: A Conversation on Freedom and Affect
By Marcie Bianco and J.T. Roane TFW Collective Member, Darnell L. Moore, delivered a talk titled, “What Freedom Feels Like: On love, empathy and pleasure in the...
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Feminists We Love: Caroline Clay
Caroline Clay is an actor with a stunningly expansive resume. She is a vibrant teaching artist and vocal coach, who envisions theater as personally empowering...
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Feminists We Love: Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting (Video)
Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities (AADS and French). She teaches comparative diasporic literary and cultural movements, 18th & 19th century...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Some Thoughts From a Stuck-Up Jezebel
By Monique John Stereotypes are not new to me. I’m black and female—two identities that are the most oppressed of all, even in our ‘post-racial...
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The Visits: A Love Note for Brothers Inside
By Breea C. Willingham The 5 ½ hour drive to Hunlock Creek, PA is always filled with conflicting emotions. I’m excited about seeing my brother,...
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Mother-Love: Reflections of an Asian American Feminist Daughter
By Vickie Nam The rift that steadily deepened between my mother and I emerged in the throes of adolescence, and mid-90s White feminism did little...
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Feminists We Love: Kaila Adia Story
Kaila Adia Story (Ph.D., African American Studies & Women’s Studies Temple University M.A., African American Studies Temple University; B.A. Women’s Studies DePaul University) is an associate professor...
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Willy Wilkinson and Kylar Broadus in Conversation: Measuring ourselves by our own yardstick
We met each other over a decade ago through our work on transgender issues around the country. Though we rarely get to see each other...
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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,...
