Misogynoir wants me to feel ashamed for being single today. Here’s how I’m refusing
I refuse to blame myself for the inability of others to see the many gifts I have to offer.
Sexual harassment is a form of intra-communal violence we can eradicate
Black women are always antagonized as aggressors who are too mean, too rude, too strong, and too stuck up, and thus deserving of forceful punishment, violations of our bodies, space, and dignity, and a suppressive hand to coerce obedience.
I am a Black woman who decided to lose weight in 2019… or did I?
My body, as Black, as woman, as I’ve come to know it, has never been and may never be my own.
There are no “danger signs” for sexual assault: Lessons from a Hmong survivor
For years, I’ve blamed myself for not being able to identify “danger signs†in the sexual assault situations.
Rape culture tells us it is normal. My body knows this is a lie
Those who resist rape culture’s control allow my body—a queer Black body that has never known rape—to be possible.
How the carceral state fuels toxic masculinity in Black children
The physical markers of the carceral state not only demarcate our mobility and freedom, but inform our performances as well, particularly Black masculinities.
Musings on a world without rape: A listicle
Half of my DVD collection would be rendered moot without rape and rape culture.
Rape Can & Must End: Poems
These poems are part of our monthlong collaboration with FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, Rape Can & Must End
I won’t let them have you, Ms. Aretha: On surviving grief and reclaiming Black joy after death
That’s what we do. We reclaim our people after death. We carry them home on our backs and in our hearts.
We can hold Omarosa accountable without throwing a Black woman away
Perhaps this kind of "I don't care what happens to so and so" is also a reinforcement of anti-Blackness.
