Rape culture tells us it is normal. My body knows this is a lie
Those who resist rape culture’s control allow my body—a queer Black body that has never known rape—to be possible.
Rape Can & Must End: Poems
These poems are part of our monthlong collaboration with FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, Rape Can & Must End
“Abolition begins with imagination, but it certainly does not end there”: An interview with ‘Neptune’ playwright Timothy DuWhite
By Hari Ziyad On July 13th, poet, writer, RaceBaitR deputy editor, performance artist and playwright Timothy DuWhite’s one-man show Neptune had its world premiere at Dixon Place in NYC, during the venue’s annual HOT! Festival: The NYC Celebration of Queer…
This sh*t is for us?: All my n*ggas, and Black people who don’t do the N-word.
By Phillip B. Williams 1. “All my niggas in the whole wide world/made this song to make it all y’all turn/ for us/ this shit is for us†Solange sings this in her song “F.U.B.U.†from her stunning third album…
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Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, Illinois native. He is the author of the book of poems Thief in the Interior(Alice James Books, 2016). He’s also co-authored a book of poems and conversations called Prime (Sibling Rivalry Press). He is…
The Blood, The Brotherhood, And, Of Course, The Hennessy – An Interview With Nate Marshall.
Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He is an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. His first book, Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize.…
Gynecology Was Built On The Backs of Black Women, Anyway – An Interview With Bettina Judd.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Southern California, Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary writer, artist and performer. She is an alumna of Spelman College and the University of Maryland and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's…
