DEI Dreaming: Confusing Inclusion and Tokenism

I signed out of zoom, sat up straight, placed my elbows on the table, clasped my hands together, pulled them up to my mouth, closed my eyes, and sighed out loud from...

Generations of white women’s violence stop here: On watching the Amy Cooper video with my 5-year-old white daughter

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Our Letter of Camaraderie to Black Women and WOC: A promise from (some) white women after watching Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us”

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The Lemonade Reader: Black Feminists Read Beyoncé

The Lemonade Reader, edited by Kinitra D. Brooks and Kameelah L. Martin,...

Black Lesbian Resistance and Resilience

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Feminists We Love: Gloria I. Joseph, Ph.D. [VIDEO]
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons on February 28, 2014
A feminist is someone who is actively involved in the struggle against sexism. It’s as simple as that. That’s the bottom line. If you can’t...
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Audre Lorde and Spelman College
By Guest Contributor on February 27, 2014
By Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy Sheftall I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, co-edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and...
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The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College
By Guest Contributor on February 27, 2014
By Jerry Wever The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College in Atlanta is such a special seminar. This year marks the third offering...
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Personal is Political: Tribute to My Teacher and Friend Audre Lorde
By Guest Contributor on February 27, 2014
By Melinda Goodman My writing is meant to be spoken out loud. My presence and the presence of the audience creates a sort of vibration...
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Broken Mothers, Shattered Daughters: For Women Who Have Loved and Survived [Trigger Warning]
By Guest Contributor on February 27, 2014
By Amoni Thompson Broken mothers raising shattered daughters reflecting familiar suns. Little black girls like me were always in some kind of trouble. Whether we...
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Personal is Political: Speaking Power to Truth: Conversations With Sisters Around Audre Lorde
By Guest Contributor on February 27, 2014
By El Jones “I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me....
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The Battle Against Misogyny at Spelman College
By Guest Contributor on February 27, 2014
By Banah Gha As a student at Spelman College, I want to share our story of activist organizing against misogyny, misogynoir, as Moya Bailey puts...
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Audre Lorde Comes to Spelman College Archive 2009
By Guest Contributor on February 27, 2014
By Opal Moore “I must always be/ building nests in a windy place” . Audre Lorde, “Portrait” . “Conduct your blooming in the noise...
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By admin on February 26, 2014
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POSTSCRIPT: a love note
By Guest Contributor on February 26, 2014
By Michelle Parkerson “Don’t mythologize me.” Audre Lorde (from the documentary, “A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL”) Consider this a love note never sent, Audre, for that...
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Love Note for Audre Lorde
By Guest Contributor on February 26, 2014
By Jennifer Abod Audre was the first black lesbian feminist that I saw in the flesh. I had discovered her several years before in a...
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Dear Audre:
By Guest Contributor on February 26, 2014
By J. Bob Alotta Preface. There is a framed poster of Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich in my office. It is a poster for a...
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Audre Lorde’s Year in Italy / L’ anno di Audre Lorde in Italia
By Guest Contributor on February 26, 2014
By Margherita Giacobino Editors Note: We are grateful to Italian feminist lesbian activist, organizer, and author Roberta Padovano for making us aware of this important...
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Collective, Reflective Conversation on Community, Liberation
By Guest Contributor on February 26, 2014
by Sappho Fulton and Ness white This conversation was one part of my and Sappho’s joint multilayered and interdisciplinary performance assigned for Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s...
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2 Poems Inspired by Audre Lorde by Melinda Goodman
By Guest Contributor on February 26, 2014
By Melinda Goodman IAM …ARE YOU?…READY In her poem entitled, “Power”, Audre Lorde proclaims, “The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready...
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Feminists We Love: Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, M.D., M.Sc. [VIDEO]
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons on February 25, 2014
“We are feminist warriors, not perfectionists.” ~ Lisa Factora-Borchers ~ I begin with my sister Lisa Factora-Borchers’ quote to remind myself that striving for perfection is actually...
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This Useful Death
By Guest Contributor on February 25, 2014
By Robert Reid-Pharr We all have to die at least once. Making that death useful would be winning for me. I wasn’t supposed to exist...
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Using the Erotic to do Our Work
By Darnell L. Moore on February 25, 2014
There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in...

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