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Embracing Black virginity in our collective fight for sexual liberation
By Ebony Taylor My roommates and I spent our undergrad years discussing ways to make more money. The simplest solution was to get jobs. However, one of my roommates thought get rich quick schemes were...
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Black women loving Black women: On the rituals that sustain community
By Jailyn Gladney “And when great souls die… Our senses, restored, never To be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They Existed. We can be. Be and be Better. For they existed.” When Great Trees Fall...
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Call out white feminism, but don’t forget that white men are still pretty...
By Christina Yoseph I recently came across a tweet thread by a well-known feminist writer of color wherein she stated, in part, that “white women scare [her] more than white men do” because, in...
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What mourning my mother taught me about the Black woman’s role in movement...
By Biola Jeje My mother passed in May of 2017, just a few days shy of Mother’s day and after only her 52nd birthday. I was shocked at the time but not surprised. For the past 15 or so years, she had...
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What’s socially desirable influences our friendships too, and that’s a problem
By Hess Stinson If you a bad girl and your friends bad too, that’s not a coincidence. It’s not uncommon for people to use their friends to boost their social capital and bragging rights, or to curate...
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Protests aren’t eulogies: Fighting for more than Stephon Clark and his...
By Chelsea Neason On March 18th of this year, the Sacramento Police Department committed yet another act of aggression against our nation. Stephon Clark was standing in his grandmother Sequita...
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Why did it take a man to get the public angry enough to #MuteRKelly?
By Janelle Anise Williams Over the past few weeks R&B mogul and infamous pedophile Robert “R.” Kelly has met severe public criticism for his predatory exploits and has had to cancel multiple...
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Being nerdy, Black & male doesn’t entitle you to any woman’s attention
By Lorenzo Simpson All eyes are on Donald Glover this year, with the release of his new video “This Is America” making waves all over the internet. I blinked hard when I saw it was going to be a...
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The art of the drug deal: Kanye West, ‘Daytona,’ and the exploitation of...
By Tochi Onyebuchi It’s not the bathroom she died in. She would find that bathroom six years later in the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. She would find it after rehearsals with Brandy and...
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As a Black woman, I refuse to reduce myself because the world finds my being...
By Anika Tene Rich The first time I can recall being criticized for the way I owned and operated my body around white people was when I participated in a teacher training program. I had just graduated...
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Why we should support Black self-care even when its not costly therapy
By Tynesha M. McCullers Just a few weeks ago, singer/songwriter, Michelle Williams, posted on Instagram that she had taken her own advice and sought out mental health professionals for her well-being....
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When men dispose of other men who are violent, we avoid accountability
By Daniel Johnson Scholar Henry A. Giroux’s work Stormy Weather: Hurricane Katrina and the Politics of Disposability positions disposability politics strictly as it relates to those who were seen as...
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We can hold Omarosa accountable without throwing a Black woman away
Crossing the Street: Attack Dogs, Whistle Blowing and the Disposing of Black Women By Amber Butts The human and the dog compound each other’s constructed viciousness in a mutual ‘becoming against,’ the...
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I won’t let them have you, Ms. Aretha: On surviving grief and reclaiming...
By Ashley May When I learned that Aretha Franklin had died, I immediately wrapped myself in the comfort of my childhood. My mind flooded with memories of Aretha sangin’ through the speakers on my...
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