All posts tagged "featured"
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#eulogizingaretha: For Aretha
By Frances Gaillard Parker In 1970, I considered myself a “supporter” of The Soledad Brothers and Angela Davis. I entered high school in the fall...
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#eulogizingaretha: A Final Good Word
By Janell Hobson On the day we gathered for the homegoing of Aretha Franklin, undisputed Queen of Soul, the Buckingham Palace guard paid tribute with...
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#eulogizingaretha: An Introduction (and contextualization)
A little over a week ago, after sitting through seven-plus hours of Black Church homegoing bliss fit for a queen, many of us sat in utter...
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Thank You, Sir. May I Have Another…Pad?
By Adrienne Kitcheyan and Tuesday Brauer Arizona House Bill 2222, menstrual equity legislation that many have referred to as “the tampon bill,” was introduced to...
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IT IS TIME — #Feminism4the99
By Zillah Eisenstein On March 8th women—in our complex identities—across the globe and across the U.S. will join together to make our resistance against the exploitation...
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Uncoddling White Women: An Interview with Community Organizer Becky Rafter
By Amanda Hendler-Voss Becky Rafter could have been among the 67% of white women voters in Alabama who cast their lot with Roy Moore. She grew...
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On Censorship and Scientific Integrity in Difficult Times
By Monica J. Casper and Jonathan M. Metzl “CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words.” This was the headline of a December 15th Washington Post story...
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Trans Multitudes and Death Reality: A Coda
Tw; Death Reality. I’ve come to accept that I will die. I know this. And frightening it is But I refuse to live in...
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Multitudes
By Sasha Alexander “ISLAN (WON’T YOU CELBRATE) ft. Lucille Clifton” – track created by Sasha Alexander. In August 2014 I was teaching and...
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A Love Note To CeCe McDonald
By Joshua Allen We got to know each other over late night walks in Brooklyn and early morning breakfasts comprised exclusively of cocktails. Even...
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Entanglement
By Che Gossett Entanglement: “the articulation of a theory is gathering place, sometimes a point of rest as the process rushes on, insisting that...
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– Luanda calling, Berlin burning – (Stop)
By WoMANtís RANDom Paris warning, London BrrreX -that’s it. I’ll go ahead after I got head. Abra accompanies this written piece with „Crybaby“. I have...
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Black, Trans, & Still Breathing
By KOKUMO it all started in a slave-ship the belly of a beast whose appetite your ancestors could neva’ satisfy but that didn’t...
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Take Me to the Water
By Amari Xolá Rasin Think about the consciousness and memory of water and how it mirrors our body and attachment to memory The waters...
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some call it a comeback
By SA Smythe some call it a comeback i just got back & already feel the need to time travel again. not the way that...
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Casting Prayers for Survival: Towards a Black Trans Theology
By J Mase III Who taught you how to pray? To conjure? To worship? To manifest? What was the context and intention? I was 11...
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A Black Trans Daughterhood of Story-Telling-Literacy
By Dora Santana When I was my own little girl in northern Brazil, a black mermaid lived in a water-well in our backyard. When my...
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Skins Hiding
By Charles Huey Greene My body bleeds brown/ The color of dried blood/ Brown bodies just like mine lie/ In the streets naked/ In...
