All posts tagged "popular culture"
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My Disability is a Joke
By Caddie Alford What if your disability were just a punchline? Online at The New York Times Opinion, they’re thinking about disability. Funny how quickly...
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Dislocations and the Holiness of Spirit
By Cherise Morris i. Perhaps this story starts in New Orleans, where I first felt the grace of place, on the corner of North Dorgenois...
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Remembering June Jordan and Madonna’s ‘Borderline’
In 1984, just before I began journalism school at Columbia University, fate delivered me to the then-Brooklyn home of June Jordan.
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Why Were We Laughing at Drake’s Dancing in “Hotline Bling?”: On Body Movement and Black Masculinity
By Lauren M. Todd In the past month, there has been a huge buzz of unabashed laughter at the Grammy-Award winner, Billboard Chart record breaker,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, for the professor who hurt me & got away with it
By Martina “Mick” Powell *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* i will let you have this...
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Clap Back: Why I’m Here for Amber Rose and Black Women’s Sexual Agency
By Ashleigh Shackelford After hearing Kanye West’s comments in his interview on “The Breakfast Club,” where he spoke on his prior relationship with Amber Rose, I decided...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Can the Side Chick Speak?: Side Chicks Re(Thot)
By Samantha Crook Now that the “year of the side chick” has come to a close, let’s resolve to have a more “thotful” side chick...
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Personal is Political: Unhandsome: Race & Gender, a Chocolate Man’s POV
My complexion earned me unflattering monikers including, but certainly not limited to, Blackie, Spot, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Tar Baby. I was also...
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Personal is Political: My Vagina (Part II)
This isn’t my way of confessing that I’d rather have a vagina, or that I’ve ever seriously thought about it. It’s just my way of...
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It’s Bigger Than Jamal Bryant…
We interrupt our summer break to bring you this article, in light of recent events within black religion and black popular culture. This is not...
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Personal is Political: White Beauty: At Home and Abroad
Amalia Clarice Mora explores white standards of beauty for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW, "It’s not just whiteness, but lightness, that grants privilege. Though I have experienced racism and...
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The Sexual Geopolitics of Popular Culture and Transnational Black Feminism
By Janell Hobson While the debate raged on toward the end of 2013 concerning Beyoncé’s feminist politics – especially in her sampling of celebrated Nigerian...
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Feminists We Love: Cheryl Cooky
Cheryl Cooky is an Associate Professor of Health & Kinesiology and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. She earned a M.A. and Ph.D....
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Feminists We Love: Yaba Blay (Video)
Yaba Blay is the Co-Director of Africana Studies and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Drexel University. After earning a B.A. in Psychology from Salisbury...
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Feminists We Love: Duchess Harris (Video)
Duchess Harris is Professor and Director of American Studies at Macalester College, where she is also an affiliate in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and...
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Exhuming the Ratchet before it’s Buried
Recently, social media was set ablaze after Oxygen revealed it was developing a reality TV show featuring rapper Shawty Lo (real name Carlos Walker) entitled,...
