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...
By Keisha Blain Adelaide Casely Hayford was, as she once described herself, a “race woman through and through.” Like Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Una Marson, and...
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.
words run deep, trickling through layers of Israeli propaganda and lies spoonfed to American audiences of CNN and FOX News. She wove truth...
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...
By Martina “Mick” Powell for June Jordan this is how i learn it: her black and in cropped cut and singsong her in a summer water, the florida of it...
In our current times of collective struggle’s reinvigoration, the life and works of June Jordan provide vital lessons. Writing between the 1960s and the early...
By Alexander Stoffel Season five of Shonda Rhimes’s wildly popular show Scandal drew approximately eight million viewers per episode. What does it mean to...
By Jazlyn Andrews “That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and...
By Yaqing Yang I’ve grown a “failure” to my Dad and “lost” to my Mom and Gram. Yesterday, I read an article published by BuzzFeed...
By Shither *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* The spatial...
By Martina “Mick” Powell *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* In the final semester of my...
Silvia my story begins in water—— casita in a dark between seas a palace of ribs you begun in me imagined as...
Madame X— she a hustler a hussy shaking her bustled booty up and down town all smiles and wiles and...
I remember Justine Black from elementary school. She was smart. She was brown, but not brown like me. I was black like most of the...
~~~~~~~~~ Step by step is an understatement of the Complexity Confusion Exhaustion That comes along with this work, Deconstruction Reconstruction so that many of us...
By Shantel Perry Cultural appropriation is a continuing epidemic in the United States (US). Yes I said it, Black Culture (although we are not...
By Natalia Cardona Patricia Arquette’s recent remarks during the Oscars made for strong debate among feminists of color and white feminists in the U.S. Arquette...