All posts tagged "Barack Obama"
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Personal is Political: A Letter to Toni
Pearl Cleage: I remember us welcoming our own daughters into our undeniably bohemian lives and wanting them to grow up strong and free. We wanted...
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Personal is Political: An Open Letter to amerika
When people say racism doesn’t exist, they are blinded. They are blinded by the privilege and high property value that their skin possesses; they are...
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Trans Women of Color Speaking Truth to Power
A Conversation with Activists Katrina Goodlett and Nala Simone Toussaint Trans women of color are...
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Blue State Blues
By Kavita Das In January of 2008, I found myself threading my way out of the crowded living room of a friend’s Brooklyn apartment, where...
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Feminists We Love: Zerlina Maxwell (Video)
Zerlina Maxwell holds a JD from the Rutgers University School of Law and a BA in International Relations and Affairs from Tufts University. Over the...
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Op-Ed: How to be Black in the Age of Obama, George Zimmerman, and Paula Deen: Notes from Summer, 2013
Welcome to the impossible future. White people are talking about race. Sometimes, they’ll even talk about racism. Some will say the word “racism” hesitantly,...
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Feminists We Love: Duchess Harris (Video)
Duchess Harris is Professor and Director of American Studies at Macalester College, where she is also an affiliate in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and...
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Myths of Progress and Cartographies of Hate
By Darnell L. Moore and Monica J. Casper Definition of HATE 1 a: intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of...
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Feminists We Love: Assata Shakur (Love Note)
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “No one is going to give you the education you need...
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Lessons on What It Must Be, Not What It Could: Growing Up Black and Boy in America
By Hashim Pipkin At age twelve, before I had one full year of formal schooling, I had a notion as to what life meant that...
