All posts tagged "featured"
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: For Those Still Haunted by The Sheets (Why the Counter-Narrative Matters)
By Candice Benbow I remember the first time I watched Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets” sermon. Family members had just come back from the Woman,...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: No Redemptive Quality: Black Women’s Bodies, Black Church and the Business of Shame
By Melva L. Sampson In 1996, I sat in an auditorium-styled mega church sanctuary in Washington, DC along with hundreds of other mostly Black women...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: From Free to Freaks: Analyzing Juanita Bynum’s Dilemma of Holy and Ho
By Monique Moultrie When Prophetess Juanita Bynum’s most recent Facebook live video came to my attention it was yet another example of Bynum’s attempts at...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: What Juanita Bynum Gets Wrong: Reflections from A Pentecostal Woman Preacher
By Keri Day I remember encountering Juanita Bynum for the first time as a college student at a Church of God in Christ (COGIC) Jurisdictional...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Received: Black Women and Our Talking Bodies
By Neichelle Guidry One Sunday during my childhood, a woman in my church approached me with a “gift.” “God has led me to give this...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: The Black Church, Black Women and Sexual Discourses of Resistance [Revised]
On Monday January 30th, as America spiraled out into unparalleled capitalist, sexist, hetero-patriarchal, homophobic, ableist, white nationalist, Islamophobic, devilish entropy, discombobulation and corruption, Dr. Juanita...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Paying in Order to Perform Labor
By Kylie Nicole Gemmell During my last quarter as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to create, facilitate, and teach my own course. This...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Unbirthing Little Red Riding Hood
By Ramisa Raya to kill your daughter, wrap her up in white satin and place her in the hands of wolves then when you...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Teaching While Black: The Punishments of Teaching “Diversity” in the Face of Trenchant Ignorance, Racism, and Entitlement
By Stephanie Batiste Race, gender, and sexuality are core concepts in my teaching with regard to the authors, materials, and concepts I introduce. I teach...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Two Poems: “Flowers, I Thought” and “She Stirs the Night”
By Shelby Lynn Lanaro “Flowers, I thought” would brighten up the room, so a pot of yellow daisies sits on the window sill leaning to the...
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An Open Letter to University Presidents, Provosts, and Governing Boards
By Monica J. Casper and Adela C. Licona In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. To Toni Morrison’s prescient admonition we,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, 1 in 4
By Courtney Sylvester **Content Warning: sexual violence, rape** 1 in 4 finally gets invited to a party 1 in 4 gets ready for a party...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Two Poems: “Look Out for the Girl” and “Under the Water I Remember”
By Katerina Roger Look Out for the Girl This young lady will give us a taster he says. assuming away a drop of our beer....
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Disbanding with White Patriarchy, Embracing Ourselves Despite Our Differences
By J.T. Roane The poison that is white patriarchy, has seduced all. It is like what Black feminist scholar Vivian Gordon called in a different...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Imposter to Entitlement
By Diksha Bijlani hey, my mother pulled off a solo raising two kids from the ground up her son a little too much like his...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, @catcallsofnyc
By Sophie Sandberg I’ve always liked dressing in a “feminine” way. I love sundresses, low cut shirts, short skirts. I like how these clothes look...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Flusher
Flusher By Kristina Dover The bruises on her neck were beautiful. Her skin wasted my wallet this winter, that is, when nights were...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Not All Art Is Painted: How A Week Without Makeup Can Make All The Difference
By Jordan Prochnow Makeup can be a double-edged sword for me. With it, I feel great; without it, I feel self-conscious. Makeup makes being a...
