All posts tagged "bell hooks"
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Becoming Each Other’s Harvest
Let us envision a society that does not empower the carceral state to intervene in the affairs of our families and communities, but instead builds...
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Thoughts on Discipline, Justice, Love and Accountability: Redefining Words to Reimagine Our Realities
That imagining, visioning and building is speculative fiction. What would our world look like without child sexual abuse/violence? What are the ways we are learning...
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Violation and Making The Road By Walking It
It’s not about people’s inability to make the leap between accountability and love. It’s about whose well-being is valued in our society and whose is...
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Honoring Black Resistance without Supporting Nate Parker
During our many long and painful conversations about this publication, we deliberately and intentionally considered the reasons why so many Black folks would choose to...
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Black Reading Pleasure: On finding a Lovesource
By zing taiwo In college, reading the work of Black authors became a watering hole for me. I’d be huddled in the stacks of our college...
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The “Identity Politics” We’re Not Talking About
By William Ruhm I first encountered the term “identity politics” while organizing with the Black Lives Matter movement through a socialist group in Boston. When one white ally...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Is Shonda Rhimes a Feminist?
By Alexander Stoffel Season five of Shonda Rhimes’s wildly popular show Scandal drew approximately eight million viewers per episode. What does it mean to...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: POETRY BY WAFA SIMPORE
~~~~~~~~~ Step by step is an understatement of the Complexity Confusion Exhaustion That comes along with this work, Deconstruction Reconstruction so that many of us...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: And We Sat: Violence against the Bodies of Diversity and Transparency (DAT) Student Movement at Syracuse University
By Farrell Greenwald Brenner The ultimate connection cannot be the enemy. The ultimate connection must be the need that we find between us. It is...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Love Rests in the Scream
By Brooklyn Payton Reflecting on the plethora of suggestive social justice images in conjunction with a continual meditative praxis on desired results of...
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White Terror: Spirituality, Ancestral Memory and the Politics of Remembering
By Rajanie (Preity) Kumar Over the last couple of weeks, I have been reflecting and analyzing the ways in which the media has taken up the...
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Liberation Legacy: Fifteen Years of the Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Program and Conferences at Spelman College, 2000-2015
M. Bahati Kuumba and Malika Redmond: The Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference happens in March during Women’s History Month on or near Bambara’s birthday. ...
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Personal is Political: bell hooks Remembers Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara was a central and important figure in the development of my political conscience, because she was by far one of the most...
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Who’s Still a Slave? Contemporary Black Women’s Rhetoric, Art, and Global Realities
By Janell Hobson “Are you still a slave?” That was the title of a forum on May 6, 2014 at the New School, featuring black...
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The Radical Politics of Self-Love and Self-Care
By SooJin Pate When most people think about love, it is usually a feeling that flows outward towards some person or some thing: “I love...
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Feminist Critique: A Legacy of Transformation
By Claire Tighe Criticism and self-criticism are the way in which individuals united by common goals can consciously utilize their differences and limitations, in order...
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Feminists We Love: Dr. bell hooks
In 2011, the legendary Black feminist scholar, cultural critic, and prolific writer Dr. bell hooks began to surface in social media spaces, pushing her work...
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Audre Lorde and Spelman College
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...
