All posts tagged "White Women"
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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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Towards An Abolitionist Feminism
By Zillah Eisenstein As an anti-racist white feminist, I wonder if it is enough to be an “ally” in this present and “newest” moment of...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Cultural Plagiarism
By Shantel Perry Cultural appropriation is a continuing epidemic in the United States (US). Yes I said it, Black Culture (although we are not...
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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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4 poems by Sonya Renee
A Poem For The Girl Who Solicited Money To Get To the National Poetry Slam (I assume by plane) Because ”I am only 20...
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Segregated Sisterhoods and the Mercurial Politics of Racial Truth-Telling
By Shannen Dee Williams “Young lady, you just told my story. In 1952, I was denied admission to the Sisters of Saint Joseph ...
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Miley’s Big Foam Finger Is Pointing At You: Stereotypes Plus Objectification Equals $$$
By Hope Wabuke I swore I wasn’t going to write about Miley Cyrus. Enough people have already done it. Enough good ink has been spilled...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Critical Analysis of Orange Is The New Black: The Appropriation Of Women Of Color
By Mohadesa Najumi Since finishing NetFlix’s hit new series “Orange Is the New Black” about a 32-year old white woman named Piper Chapman, who serves 15 months...
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Instant Messages: On White Womanhood, Fear of Black Men, and Changing Our Minds
By Abe Louise Young because because because as far as I can tell less than a thousand children playing in the garden of a thousand...
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Race Baiting? Our System Has Failed
By Alice Hunt Dear white friends—particularly my white, female friends—our system has failed us. This failure became ever more clear to me when I saw...
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White Feminists and Trayvon Martin
By Debra Guckenheimer Gender and racial inequality are intertwined in ways the Trayvon Martin case highlighted. Historically, the safety of White women has been used...
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Trayvon and George: Why This Case is Really about Women
By Kelly Macías Like many other Americans, over the last three weeks I was firmly gripped by the George Zimmerman trial. I watched with anxiety...
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No Justice for Trayvon: White Women in the Jury Box
During the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin, considerable media coverage surrounded the selection of six women for jury duty. Perhaps, some speculated,...
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White Female Jurors and Florida Justice
By Zillah Eisenstein I am white and female, like the almost-white jury that acquitted Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin. But I am also an anti-racist...
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Feminists We Love: Sandra Fluke
Although best known for her advocacy for gender equality and reproductive justice, for the last decade, Sandra Fluke has devoted her career to public interest...
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Are Men to Be Trusted? Thoughts on Sexual Assault and the Chain of Command
By Bill Patrick This week brought the startling news of the arrest of Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, the officer in charge of the Air Force’s...
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Un-Women's Liberation
By James Bliss And I wonder what I may be risking as I become more and more committed to telling whatever truth comes across my eyes...
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Film: "Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights" by Nevline Nnaji
Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights is a feature-length documentary that focuses on black women’s marginalization between the Black Power and Feminist movements, as...
