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Only white men are heroes
By Arielle Iniko Newton Editor’s Note: To support the two Muslim teenage girls who are victims/survivors in Portland, please give to their YouCaring page. In America, only white men are heroes. In...
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You can’t protect Black children without protecting Black trans children
By Jasmine Banks Imagine someone who has dedicated their life work to calling out the violence of corporal punishment in the Black community. Imagine that they, as a former foster youth, redeems their...
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My Rahma (compassion) does not extend to white supremacists
By Isra Ibrahim Writer’s Note: Ummah is the Arabic word for community. It describes the worldwide Muslim community across all borders. Rahma is the Arabic word for compassion. It delineates the Islamic...
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Can we disagree and still love each other?
By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Last week, Jenn Jackson, a PhD student at the University of Chicago, Managing Editor of Black Youth Project, and a writer published in a variety of venues such as B*tch...
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“The Girl with all the Gifts” is a nightmare for white supremacy
By Sherronda J. Brown Writer’s Note: This essay contains spoilers for The Girl With All The Gifts The zombie narrative in Western horror has always been rooted in fear of the destruction of the...
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Ain’t Never Scared: The necessity of learning from Black feminist refusal
By Marquis Bey “The fugitivity of these images lies not in their ability to sanction movement but in the creation of new possibilities for living lives that refused a regulatory regime from which they...
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“We are who we say we are:” How the State and Big Data define Black identities
By Leslie Jones Writer’s Note: The article title is an homage to Mary Frances Berry’s seminal work on emergent colored Creole identity in the late 18th and 19th century. Her research reveals the...
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When white liberals affirm the magic of Black girls just to steal it from them
By Hassan Henderson Since receiving it as a gift, now a little over four years ago, I’ve boastfully sported the “I Met God, She’s Black” T-Shirt. It was given to me as a twentieth birthday present by...
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As Black femmes, we must maintain accountable relationships in this fight for...
By Ahlam Ali “still trying to try to imagine freedom and black joy black love black life reimagined reproduced” — Jamal Lewis I love Black women unconditionally. And with love comes a huge...
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‘The Big Sick’s disgusting treatment of women of color illuminates the...
By Aisha Mirza To be clear, I am not a fool, and therefore my expectations were not sky-high for a movie about heteronormative interracial love written by Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani comedian, and his...
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Tanning as a Black Woman: My journey to self-love in a colourist society
By Sarah Meron The summer I turned 10 years old, I went on holiday to a beach town somewhere in France with my auntie and uncle. I remember arriving at the beach and plopping myself excitedly on my...
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“The Parable of the Sower” offers the Black feminist vision “The Handsmaid’s...
By Brittany Frederick I’m not going to front, I binged the Hulu original The Handmaid’s Tale at the behest of my friend who promised me it was exactly like Trump’s America. While the series, and...
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While mourning Erica Garner, we must protect her from being used as a...
By Torraine Walker There’s a tradition in Black families when someone passes away. Once everyone has filed into the church and passed by the coffin to view the body of the loved one, and the reverend...
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How this Black femme finds peace in Tarot as the world burns
By Taylor Steele Despite having been doing it for six years, I am nowhere near fluent in reading Tarot cards. I couldn’t, at the drop of a hat, tell you the difference in meaning between the seven of...
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A world “too far”: Aziz Ansari’s assault scandal and why #MeToo needs prison...
By Shondrea Thornton When news of Aziz Ansari’s alleged sexual assault began to spread, I chalked it up as just another drop in the trough of Hollywood revelations in recent months. Ansari, whose fame...
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Anti-Blackness in Latinx countries is the result of deliberate cultural policy
By Quinn Smith-Matta Amara La Negra has been making waves on social media as the breakout star of Love and Hip Hop: Miami. What sets her apart is her identity as a dark-skinned Afro-Latina and her...
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‘Black Lightning’ finally brings Black queer radical politics to the super...
By Janelle Anise Williams “Are you ready for a Black Lesbian superhero?” This is what Black Lightning star Nafessa Williams tweeted out to fans one weekend before the show in question premiered on the...
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How entertainment journalism systematically exploits Black women
By Jazmine Joyner Entertainment Journalism is a reflection of the industry it investigates. A whitewashed landscape with very few POC (People of Color) who are usually dealing with niche topics that...
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My womb is not a burial site: What is motherhood to Black women facing...
By Amber Butts Female octopuses die from anemia and exhaustion 2-10 months after they give birth. They spend those months protecting and cleaning their eggs. They do not eat. As my body spread over a...
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How anti-Black colorism forces dark-skinned Black women to be nothing more...
By Kennedy Christine My first year of college, I took a sociology class that introduced me to the term “master status,” which is an individual’s social role or description that supersedes all their...
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