How “Gayle King v. Kobe Bryant” obscured a valid critique of sensationalizing sexual violence
In our efforts to resist this silencing, however, we must also consider the ways that others who are not public figures are implicated in these discussions
How “Black people are not a monolith” is used to promote respectability politics
I am in no way saying that Black people are a monolith. We have varying cultures, ideas, beliefs, etc. What I am saying is that we should be careful about when we feel the need to claim that and why.
Increased representation for marginalized people won’t fix anything if people in power remain overrepresented
When we consider the dangers of the underrepresentation of marginalized people, we can’t ignore the potential danger in the overrepresentation of people in power.
It’s not “complicated”: Black children deserve space to question, challenge & reject the world around them
When we collapse children’s autonomy in both fictive and lived realities, we undermine their ability to contemplate nuance.
Passing the torch to Black heroes in comics is part of the white supremacist lineage of reconciling servitude
I'm distasteful of the comic trope of for succeeding white men because I believe this is one of many strategies white people have adopted to cope with their mortality, and keeping us bound to them in servitude
Hands Across America: What we can learn from “Us” about systemic inequality
While “Adelaide” may be difficult to sympathize with once we know her secret, we cannot deny that this terrible, violent, and unforgivable thing she did was for all of the right reasons.
“He didn’t have to hit her tho”: The ‘Beale Street’ slap scene & loving Black women who hurt us
How do so many Black women love violent Black men without reciprocating violence themselves, but can't get that love in return? How do we normalize care strategies for Black women who hurt us?
Appropriation is not a matter of authenticity
Fixating on the difference between others who "put on" our culture & those who create from "authentic" experiences obscures why we challenge appropriation in the first place.
What is hoarding for Black people who aren’t allowed things?
Why are Black folks only ever allowed to carry what we need, even in death? How are we hoarders if we never get what we need?
