Category: NONBOOK
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Boy Story. Or, What Having A Baby Is Teaching Me About Gender
Words by Mia McKenzie Drawings by Ritapa Neogi I’ve always wanted kids and, since I started identifying as a feminist at around twenty years old, I’ve wanted those kids to be daughters. The idea of raising little Black girls, of loving them and giving them everything they’d need to become free and happy Black […]
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How to Tell the Difference Between Real Solidarity and ‘Ally Theater’
If you’re a marginalized person who’s involved in activist work, or who spends a lot of time on social media, or both, you almost certainly deal with a lot of so-called “allies” whose idea of “allyship” is so convoluted you’d rather just do without it. From white fragility to cis fuckery, from “I’m on […]
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“How Can White Women Include Women of Color In Feminism?” Is A Bad Question. Here’s Why.
When I’m invited to speak at universities, one of the questions I’m asked the most by young women of color and young white women alike is some variation of “how can white women include women of color in feminism?” My answer is always the same: that’s not the right question to be asking. While […]
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This Is What Rihanna’s BBHMM Video Says About Black Women, White Women and Feminism
The innanetz are all abuzz over Rihanna’s new #BBHMM video. White Feminists™ are especially upset, many of them calling the video “misogynist”. It’s been called “torture porn” and “incredibly violent”. I watched the video and…well…I see why White Feminists™ are so upset. Yes, there is violence (not nearly as much as an R-rated movie, […]
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For Colored Girls Who Are Violently Quoted King When Their Own Words Are Enough
In my recent piece about Ferguson and so-called “violence” of protestors, I touched on the fact that racists, both liberal and conservative, who don’t value the lives of black people, love to quote Martin Luther King to us, in feeble attempts to silence us when we get too radical for their liking. In that piece, […]
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On Ferguson Protests, the Destruction of Things, and What Violence Really Is (And Isn’t)
Since the announcement on Monday that Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, wouldn’t be brought to trial, huge protests have broken out all over the country, from Ferguson (where the community had already been protesting for over a hundred days, since the day Michael Brown […]
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On Getting Free
A long time ago, when you were a wee thing, you learned something, some way to cope, something that, if you did it, would help you survive. It wasn’t the healthiest thing, it wasn’t gonna get you free, but it was gonna keep you alive. You learned it, at five or six, and it worked, […]
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How To Be A ‘Reverse-Racist’: An Actual Step by Step List For Oppressing White People
White people who are confronted with their white privilege and the white supremacist acts they perpetuate have been known to cry, “You’re being a reverse-racist!” That is completely true: people of color have the power and control to create, perpetuate, and maintain brutal systematic reverse-racism that oppresses white people every day. As such, we have […]