All posts tagged "Black Lives Matter"
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Recovered Histories of Anti-Rape Activism: Celebrating Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Intersectional Approaches
By The Feminist Wire Associate Editors We write in celebration of our visionary sister and comrade/comadre, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, black lesbian feminist, cultural worker, filmmaker,...
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Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: “It Hurts”
By Judy Rohrer In the beginning of September I published a short article on a Hawai’i news site analyzing what I thought to be obvious...
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activist, poet, prison abolitionist, human rights advocate, incest and rape survivor
I don’t need an “apology” from the harm doers in my life to actually heal. I don’t need a pitiful recognition to liberate myself. Amends...
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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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Rethinking Forgiveness in the Face of Unceasing Black Trauma
I am the daughter of a black Baptist preacher. I am also a black feminist scholar of Black Religion and Black Diaspora Studies. So on...
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White Liberals Ain’t Loyal: White Silence, Black Absence
By RaShelle R. Peck The summer of 2015 was tragic and bloody. One incident that constantly appeared in the media was the murder of Cecil...
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Personal Is Political: The Necessity of Spaces for Black Vulnerability
By Antonia Randolph Introduction Caring for the black interior, or the inner life of black people, is necessary for political action and for the emotional...
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June Jordan’s Songs of Palestine and Lebanon
Jordan turned the most gruesome horrors in our world—the world of Arab isolation and unabated imperial violence--into searing poems and essays that spoke to...
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A Love Note to June Jordan from Margo Okazawa-Rey
You loved South African women struggling to Free South Africa and wrote for them “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Your love of...
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Black Women Reclaim the Conversation on Racism Worldwide
The last two years have seen an upsurge of highly-visible demonstrations and growing movements against racism across the world, from #BlackLivesMatter in the United States...
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“All Lives Matter Act” Is a Blatant Attack on Black Female Bodies in Missouri
By Christine Assefa The deaths of Michael Brown, Jr., Vonderitt Myers, Jr., Kim King, and Kajieme Powell, and the Ferguson Uprising, thrust Missouri into the...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Silence of Burning
By Grace Kuell * “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* I’ve written poems about Silence before...
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New Interdisciplinary Resource, Black Lives Matter, Introduces 6-12th Graders to Antiblack Violence in U.S. Law and Society
By M. Shadee Malaklou When Ferguson police draped a white sheet over Michael Brown’s dead body, they forgot to cover his feet. For four hours,...
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Free Marissa Now and Stand With Nan-Hui: A Conversation About Parallel Struggles
Alisa Bierria, a member of the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign and a member of INCITE! and Hyejin Shim, an organizer with the Stand with...
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Memory and Violence: Old South Nostalgia in the Wake of the Emanuel AME Shooting
By Jamie Huff Since the recent killing of nine Black congregants at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME church on June 17, debates about the...
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Beyond Saying Her Name
#SayHerName: Toward a Gender Inclusive Analysis of State Violence report’s release is timed to support mobilization for a National Day of Action on Black Women...
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Towards An Abolitionist Feminism
By Zillah Eisenstein As an anti-racist white feminist, I wonder if it is enough to be an “ally” in this present and “newest” moment of...
