All posts tagged "featured"
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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...
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Generations of white women’s violence stop here: On watching the Amy Cooper video with my 5-year-old white daughter
By Annie Menzel For white people working to align ourselves with justice, it makes sense to want to distance ourselves from Amy Cooper, the “Central...
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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”
"We want white supremacy to end, no matter what it means for us or other white people. We know it will be better than the...
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The Lemonade Reader: Black Feminists Read Beyoncé
The Lemonade Reader, edited by Kinitra D. Brooks and Kameelah L. Martin, is a critical study on not only Black women, Black feminism, and Black...
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Black Lesbian Resistance and Resilience
We are in an intergenerational relay race for our survival. I received the baton from Black lesbian and gay elders who preceded me in the...
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THE MAKING OF A NEW ANTI-RACIST FEMINIST WORKING CLASS; #Feminism4the99
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing this just a few weeks after the Women’s marches of 2019. Tens of thousands of women — non-binary, trans, gender variant,...
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Black Feminism and Black Moses, Part II
Today is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I almost hate that we commemorated a holiday in his honor because I’m convinced iconicity leads...
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Black Feminism and Black Moses, Part I
W. E. B. Du Bois’s poignant words in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,” is scripture for...
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On #survivingrkelly: deconstruction, accountability, and a #networkofpredation
I finished Episode 6 of #survivingrkelly executive produced by dream hampton late last night. Full disclosure: I am a Black woman sexual assault survivor who...
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A Commitment to/with/for The Damned
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read a collective statement from The Damned Collective to/with/for...
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The Time Has Come for White Women to Move Beyond Lip Service: Toward an Anti-Racist Professional Ethics for White Women’s Studies Directors
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson call to White Women...
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The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read Dr. Joy James’ response to the “Chicago...
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A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read and certainly be inspired by this collective statement...
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Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
By. Dr. G & Dr. Kimberly S. Love “The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference...
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Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
We are pleased to announce the publication of Tamura Lomax’s new book, Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture (Duke University Press),...
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#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
Sept 15, 1976, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” premiered on Broadway for the first...
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#eulogizingaretha: A Reflection Upon a Musical Selection: “Mary, Don’t You Weep”
By Kimberly Peeler-Ringer When Aretha Franklin recorded her live “Amazing Grace” album with James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir at the New Temple...
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#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
By Andrea Plaid I’m not even sure who Rev. Jasper Williams was talking about in his eulogy. I know it wasn’t Mother Franklin. Not the...
