“Don’t get caught slipping”: My daily reminder to never trust white people
There are no safe spaces for Black people as long as whiteness exists.
Police violence against Black women and girls is state-sanctioned rape culture
Chikesia Clemons was found guilty of disorderly conduct, once again showing that the criminal “justice†system is antithetical to the protection of Black women.
Demands to “Abolish ICE” are ineffective if borders still remain
As long as there are borders to protect, there will be some sort of militarized force in place to enforce them.
All your non-Black friends say “n****r” behind your back
By Kejhonti Neloms They all call you nigger behind your back. You were right when you thought you heard your boss at the Dollar Store say it. Your daughter was right when she thought she heard her teacher say it…
‘Sorry To Bother You’ crucially legitimizes “violence” as a response to violent oppression
By Devyn Springer "...on the agenda of the bourgeoisie there is—there can be nothing but—violence, corruption, and barbarism." - Aimé Cèsaire It was clear from the conversations in the full theater that none of us really knew what to expect…
Our enslaved ancestors had orgasms, too
By Ashley Danielle “Did slaves have orgasms?†It’s not the type of thought-provoking question I expected to find on the submission page of a publication popularly hailed as progressive, but at the same time I wasn’t shocked. But the subsequent…
The social media we rely upon is killing us
By Arielle Iniko Newton I’m banned from Facebook again. This time for thirty days. Apparently, “Straights are weird. Goodnight.” is hate speech. The algorithms of a global capitalist enterprise that allegedly shares data with law enforcement, determined that my rhetoric…
I don’t blame the Mexican men who robbed my white neighbor
Living while Black in the United States is living in a perpetual state of Wrong Place, Wrong Time. Unlike Peter's robbery, there is no sense to our deaths.
“I’m the only Black in the village”: Why Black Americans avoid other Black people while abroad
If your most salient connection to your experience of Blackness conjures pain, then it makes sense that you seek to find a release by distancing yourself from reminders of it.
I don’t owe white people trigger warnings.
By Zaire Bidgel Portland, Oregon. The epicenter of white dreads, white fragility, and colorblindness. I was living there, working at a non-profit whose goal was to serve the houseless community while also being a place where the most marginalized could…
