All posts tagged "Race"
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The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read Dr. Joy James’ response to the “Chicago...
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Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
By. Dr. G & Dr. Kimberly S. Love “The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference...
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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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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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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...
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Where Thought Lives: Reconnecting the Body, Mind, and Spirit
By Kingston Farady I recently moved three thousand miles away from home. Not the home I arrived to as a child, but the home I...
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America Taught Me How To Forget
By Jay-Marie Hill America Taught Me How To Forget america taught me how to forget my name my pain my stories my glories it’s...
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When the Tipping Point Melts
By Lex Kennedy When Lavern Cox graced the May 2014 cover of the TIME magazine “The Transgender Tipping Point” I realized the Black Trans iceberg...
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Black Marriage Unshackled: An Interview with Historian Tera W. Hunter
I recently spoke with historian Tera W. Hunter about her groundbreaking new book Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (The...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Organizing Political Rage
By Mina Ezikpe On 20 September 2016, the day after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, I, with a few others, traveled...
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3 poems by Nikki Wallschlaeger
Mother’s Day Hangover 2016 I have 3 days of prime emotional anethesization to work through before I get on this creaky jetplane to New York,...
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Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: “It Hurts”
By Judy Rohrer In the beginning of September I published a short article on a Hawai’i news site analyzing what I thought to be obvious...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, “Wrong or Right, Black or White?”: The Convergence of Race, Gender, and Justice in Constructions of Catwoman
By Jazlyn Andrews Have you ever felt so intrigued by a fictional character that you want to explore every facet of them until they...
