Race & Blackness Archives - Page 7 of 13

Fyre Festival & tourism’s ravaging effect on Black people across the diaspora

The overwhelming Western nature of the Fyre Festival without an inkling of attempting to integrate with Bahamian culture is reflective of the colonial lens that many tourist companies view the Caribbean through.

No one should go to prison for transmitting HIV, even if it’s done on purpose

For too long the societal conversation surrounding HIV began and ended on individuals and their actions. This focus oftentimes working as a distraction from all the factors at play surrounding said individual.

I am a Black woman who decided to lose weight in 2019… or did I?

January 16, 2019
Shondrea Thornton
Blackness & Anti-Blackness, Gender & Queerness, Women & Feminism

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

January 9, 2019
Kejhonti Neloms
Blackness & Anti-Blackness, Race & Blackness

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.

A man called me an ugly Black woman, but the harm doesn’t start or end with him

It terrifies me how widely accepted, how normalized, how validated bullying and fatphobia continues to be—even amongst the most revolutionary of people. We do not deserve to have our bodies be made villainous or humorous.

Survivor’s guilt: Returning to your hood after getting an education just to find it gentrified

December 19, 2018
Nicholas Powers
Race & Blackness

Did they drive their U-Hauls here, move in and take that first walk in the hood so they could see firsthand the evidence of history, maybe on a subconscious level, tingle with white power?

The pervasiveness of anti-Blackness in the cannabis industry

December 13, 2018
Amber Butts
Race & Blackness

Supporting Black dispensaries is a necessary strategy to combat these anti-black policies, demarcations and conferences of respectability, access and performance.

Anti-fatness and the denial of survivorship for fat Black boys who have been assaulted

December 11, 2018
Da'Shaun Harrison
Blackness & Anti-Blackness, Men & Masculinity

Aside from Roxane Gay, social, political, economic, and cultural work around the (fat) body is overwhelmingly whiteâ€”despite the ways in which anti-fat oppression is felt most harshly by Black fat bodies.

Our desire for white validation created Sam Whiteout

We need no more Sam Whiteouts when so many Black people are living, existing, and surviving with the brilliance white folks will never have the range to hold.

When gender non-conforming Bois like me get punched in the face, it’s always our fault

December 3, 2018
K. Martinez
Blackness & Anti-Blackness, Gender & Queerness, Men & Masculinity, Trans Issues & the Gender Binary

There’s always something more I should have done.