All posts tagged "Melissa Harris Perry"
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: For Darker Sisters
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes I am the great-great-great grandson of former enslaved Georgians—the Johnson family to be exact. I come from a lineage of individuals whom...
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Feminists We Love: Dr. bell hooks
In 2011, the legendary Black feminist scholar, cultural critic, and prolific writer Dr. bell hooks began to surface in social media spaces, pushing her work...
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TFW at Black Women’s Blueprint’s Fourth Annual Mother Tongue Monologues
On Saturday, February 8, 2014, Black Women’s Blueprint hosted their Fourth Annual Mother Tongue Monologues for Truth Bearing Women, for Emerging Sons, and Other Keepers...
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Feminists We Love: Farah Tanis
Farah Tanis is a transnational feminist and human rights activist. She is co-founder and Executive Director of the Black Feminist Organization Black Women’s Blueprint. She...
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Op-Ed: Black Men, are we doing enough to stand with Black women? Feminism is for Black Men too.
By Aaron Talley Compared to the bulk of my intellectual trajectory, I have spent very little time engaging directly with Black feminism. Through much of...
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Is a picture worth a 1000 words? Race and the politics of mourning
Hank Willis Thomas A couple weeks back, Melissa Harris Perry and her guests discussed the power of images, focusing on the debate as to whether...
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Walking the Tightrope: Good Indian Girls, Race, and Bad Sexuality
By Chaya Babu I was a few weeks into my freshman year at Duke when my sister, a senior at the time, said to me,...
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Moving the Margins to the Centre: Shifting from Anti-Racist to Pro-Black
By Hana Riaz For many Women of Colour feminists globally and in the West, our struggle with mainstream feminism remains an arduous and painful one....
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Feminists We Love: Jamilah Lemieux
Jamilah Lemieux is the News & Lifestyle Editor for EBONY.com. In 2005, she created the award-winning blog, The Beautiful Struggler, where for more than six years, she published meditations on race...
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Who Will Revere US? (Black LGTBQ People, Straight Women, and Girls) (Part 3)
This is Part 3 of a four part article. Immediately following is the introduction to the series, originally published April 23, 2012, for your convenience....
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“There’s a war going on outside:” Health Care and Women of Color (Part 1)
Credit: Favianna Rodriguez Anna Brown sought out the care of St. Mary’s Health Center in St. Louis, MO because she was not feeling well. Complaining...
