Let our dead bury their murderers: Police & protests aren’t our only options
When do we hold the State’s feet to the fire? When do we experience righteous justice?
There is a COVID-19 conspiracy. Scaring Black people away from healthcare & vaccination is part of it
While Black people are vulnerable to targeting when medical treatments are being developed, we are also among the last to benefit. That is the conspiracy.
Social distancing is just part of the problem if we don’t account for anti-Blackness
Social distancing is a privilege that the well-to-do have already been practicing for centuries to keep their resources away from marginalized people.
It’s not Black people’s responsibility to end anti-Asian racism
Where was all this concern about not referencing a group of people or a place when talking about a disease, when Ebola was named after a river in the Congo?
How we are conditioned not to account for the mental health needs of Black people who commit violence
A cop with biases is dangerous to the community. If you are more passionate for them than for us all, mind your tongue.
Coded or not, it’s still racism
While Black folks decipher this lexicon for our own survival, white folks either remain oblivious to the whole exchange or worse, actively deny any wrongdoing in an attempt to preserve a perception of neutrality.
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.
We protect us: Why the state will never solve the epidemic of missing and trafficked Black women & girls
State institutions such as the police, and child welfare services are often complicit in sexual violence enacted upon Black women and girls.
Harvard denying Prof. García-Peña tenure reminds us elite schools are only here to exploit Black & Indigenous people
García-Peña’s ordeal is a necessary reminder to non-white scholars everywhere that intellectual genocide is alive and kicking.
Dead Black Boy Magic: How mental health stigmas compound with anti-queerness to kill our children
I carry a combination of marginal identities that hold an enduring need for self-sufficiency and suffering.
