All posts tagged "Love"
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, On the Gender Racism of Black Men towards Black Women
By Ibram X. Kendi In the prologue of my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, I...
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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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4 Poems by Joseph Han
Why I Take My Grandmother to Church Every Sunday She replaced her husband’s limbs with wood: broken from doors in past rooms, branches...
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4 poems by Joy Ladin
Making Love From Impersonation, Sheep Meadow Press, 2015 I reach for God and brush your breast, reach for you and brush God ...
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A Preemptive Strike: Cannibalizing Queer People of Color in the Aftermath of the Orlando Massacre
This isn’t an open letter. It’s cautionary. Warning tape surrounds this statement. Enter at your own risk.
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cadencia (a poem for Orlando)
By Martina “Mick” Powell for KJ Morris and all the beautiful people we lost in Orlando, FL on June 12, 2016 & that...
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3 poems by Elizabeth J. Colen
*** Elizabeth J. Colen’s most recent books include the long poem / lyric essay hybrid The Green Condition(Ricochet Editions, 2014)...
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2 poems by Casandra Lopez
4th of July: San Bernardino 2015 South of the freeway fireworks spit out the whole of July. Booms blare louder than backfires, thundering...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Two Poems: “I Refuse” and “The Wage”
By Lytasha Marie Blackwell The following piece was written while I was a junior in high school. This piece reflects my concerns, views, passion,...
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2 prose pieces by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Mulatto-ed Our friends are talking about our babies, but we haven’t got to the loving part yet. They are looking at our skin, yours: burnt...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Where are the Brown Women At?
By Mirusha Yogarajah Watching the show Master of None inscribed a sense of self-worth in me. My identity was relevant enough to be represented...
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3 poems by DENISE BENAVIDES
T H R O W T H E W O M E N B A C K I N T O T H E O...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Love Me for Who I Am
By Natasha Chanto I am nothing like the girls advertised in by the media. I am 5’1”, I weigh 125 pounds, my breasts are...
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4 poems by Rebecca Seiferle
xxiii. if you sit by me I won’t be able to hear the words for listening to your body. . . ....
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Ode to June Jordan’s ‘A Poem about My Rights’
Inspired by the work of June Jordan we have both offered artistic, sonic, and poetic meditations on June Jordan’s, A Poem about My Rights.
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A Conjuring: Love Supreme: June Jordan, Love Note for JJ
By Alexis De Veaux Conjuring I do not meet June Jordan. I encounter her. The way one encounters what one cannot see- force, cosmic energy,...
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June Jordan Solves the Energy Crisis: Love is Lifeforce
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Not many people are turning to black feminist texts from the 1970s as their major strategy for addressing the current climate...
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“Defeat Will Be Detestable to Us”: A Tribute to June Jordan
And now, I hung on to June Jordan’s every word. I watched her on screen in Pratibha Parmar’s A Place of Rage. Her words were...
