Blackness doesn’t need whiteness to exist because whiteness didn’t create it. We did
We are agents and shapers of history, culture and discourse, not mere passive, thoughtless victims. We were sizing them up the same time they were sizing us up.
“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?
Prison “reform” is useless unless it pushes for freedom and dignity for *everyone*
Prison reform continues to be structured around arbitrary definitions of who does and doesn’t deserve humane treatment
Activists are being wildly outmaneuvered by gov. tech and data collection, and it’s a problem
Taking hordes of data on our communities and looking for common denominators and weak points that could be taken advantage of is the model to stop potentially revolutionary sparks.
Why is TV so afraid to show Black people loving Black people?
By tagging a white partner to the majority of new Black stories, entertainment groups are able to avoid telling a largely Black story by including a white person as peripheral to the Black character’s life.
Obama’s symbolic “progress” was never enough to liberate Black people. Let’s not fall for it again
Obama laid out the blueprint for Black presidential candidates, and both Kamala and Cory are trying to execute on it. But I’m tired of inauthentic diversity.
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.
I don’t want equality with white men, and no one should
I don’t want more “respect” based on how much I contribute to a genocidal empire.
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.
It’s impossible to fight for justice and the world not call you crazy when the world is unjust
Regardless of who destroyed the Earth, I’m still expected to clock in on time, not steal from them people, not lie to authorities, not kill Daniel Hortzclaw.
