All posts tagged "Black Women"
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Imagining Patsey’s Rescue by Harriet Tubman (Or, Marie Laveau’s Vengeance)
By Janell Hobson Having seen 12 Years a Slave twice (first at a fundraising event and later at a private screening and discussion), I am...
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The Color of Teaching: Expectations of Mammy in the Classroom
By Manya Whitaker On October 24, 2013 the Center for American Progress released a report, The State of Women of Color in the United States. In...
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Segregated Sisterhoods and the Mercurial Politics of Racial Truth-Telling
By Shannen Dee Williams “Young lady, you just told my story. In 1952, I was denied admission to the Sisters of Saint Joseph ...
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Pageantry: There is Another Story
By Takiyah Amin Sometimes a piece writes itself. In the last few weeks feelings have swirled in my body as I have read and listened to others...
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Justice for Marissa! Set her Free! (Read and Sign)
By Zillah Eisenstein October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Marissa Alexander was imprisoned in 2010 for 20 years after trying to defend herself from a...
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“Calling All Stars”: Janelle Monae’s Black Feminist Futures
By Emily J. Lordi I will let others explain why The Electric Lady, released earlier this month, is Janelle Monae’s most beautiful, expertly pop and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Blonde Success: Fact or Myth?
By Ravon Ruffin and James “JP” Miller Do gentlemen really prefer blondes or has a history of fetishization of “the blonde” by media made it more...
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Love Notes in Four Parts
By Katrina Otuonye Like Letters …..I used to have dreams where I would read anonymous letters sent to my house. …..“I do not love you,”...
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She Called Me a Poet
By Candy Taaffe August 9, 2009 Finally official. . The love and mutual respect is what inspires the truth, ………….and the desire ………….to make happen...
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Love Note: Anamaría Flores on Love as a Radical Act
By Anamaría Flores In a white male supremacist heteronormative puritanical judeo-christian culture such as the one that characterizes the united states, the most revolutionary act...
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Dear Facebook Friend: A Primer on Racism
By LaKisha Simmons In response to your racist memes and our ensuing discussion. You believe that race “doesn’t matter in today’s day,” that you treat all...
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Miley’s Big Foam Finger Is Pointing At You: Stereotypes Plus Objectification Equals $$$
By Hope Wabuke I swore I wasn’t going to write about Miley Cyrus. Enough people have already done it. Enough good ink has been spilled...
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Race and The Invisible Cloak of “Black”
By Kuukua Yomekpe Two years into living in the U.S. a carload of Anglo American boys tried to run my two younger sisters and me over...
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Finding Her Mother’s Gardens: A Review of Pratibha Parmar’s “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth”
Black women have tended to incredible, secluded gardens within the expansive wasteland of this dysfunctional democracy.–Joy James, from “Resting in the Gardens, Battling in the...
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Armor
By Jac’leen Smith The intended purpose of armor is to protect. To use in combat. To shield the exterior from harm. But what happens when...
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#BlackPowerIsForBlackMen: Letters from Brothers Writing to Live
By Brothers Writing to Live We are a collective of black men dedicated to challenging the ideas of black masculinity and manhood through the written...
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LGBTQ Film Feature: “U People” Fifth Anniversary Interview with Hanifah Walidah
Nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2010, U People is a music video, a documentary LGBT film, and a...
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if God can Cook / you Know I can: Pedagogy of Those Opting-Out of Oppression
By Carrie Y. T. Kholi As a poet/scholar, I’m having a difficult time labeling this piece. It feels like a tough lesson from my favorite instructors,...
