Yes, I was suicidal. But living for other people is what almost killed me
Like most Black folks, the intentional and subliminal external messaging I received growing up were variations of me being unlovable, inadequate, and too much.
Is that building racist or is it just me?: The anti-Black history of urban planning
There are other “less” insidious markers of environmental racism that doesn’t specifically place gentrification at the center. I’ve been horrified and fascinated to track the trends of changes in communities urban development structures that impact our daily lives and our memorie
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.
What exactly is “micro” about microaggressions?
Between macro and micro, I would choose neither. I haven’t been able to make the microaggressions feel any less aggressive than a full slap to the face. For me, the macro only provides substance to the micro.
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.
Black people are dreaming to get free- Literally
The complex and intricate relationship between notions of disability and indigenous concepts of spiritual marking are alive in Harriet’s story.
We can’t allow Black liberation to be limited by borders designed by settlers
To me, Black liberation is synonymous with demilitarizing the murderous police state, abolishing the inhumane prison system and freeing folx from the constraints of our exploitative economic system.
Using the plight of Black people to combat the oppression of non-Black POC always perpetuates anti-Blackness
The model minority myth is then a tool of anti-Black subordination as it has been historically used to justify the plight of Black folks and pit Asian Americans and Black people against each other due to Asian Americans racial positioning.
