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Who Will Revere US? (Black LGTBQ People, Straight Women, and Girls) (Part 3)

This is Part 3 of a four part article. Immediately following is the introduction to the series, originally published April 23, 2012, for your convenience.  Part 1 can be read in its entirety here....

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Feminists We Love: Jamilah Lemieux

Jamilah Lemieux is the News & Lifestyle Editor for EBONY.com. In 2005, she created the award-winning blog, The Beautiful Struggler, where for more than six years, she published meditations on race...

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Moving the Margins to the Centre: Shifting from Anti-Racist to Pro-Black

By Hana Riaz For many Women of Colour feminists globally and in the West, our struggle with mainstream feminism remains an arduous and painful one. Despite the great body of work that Women of Colour...

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Walking the Tightrope: Good Indian Girls, Race, and Bad Sexuality

By Chaya Babu I was a few weeks into my freshman year at Duke when my sister, a senior at the time, said to me, “Indian girls who date black guys are sluts.” Just like that. We were sitting in her car...

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Is a picture worth a 1000 words? Race and the politics of mourning

Hank Willis Thomas A couple weeks back, Melissa Harris Perry and her guests discussed the power of images, focusing on the debate as to whether or not the public should see images of Newtown violence....

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Op-Ed: Black Men, are we doing enough to stand with Black women? Feminism is...

By Aaron Talley Compared to the bulk of my intellectual trajectory, I have spent very little time engaging directly with Black feminism. Through much of college, I became deeply immersed in Ralph...

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Feminists We Love: Farah Tanis

  Farah Tanis Farah Tanis is a transnational feminist and human rights activist. She is co-founder and Executive Director of the Black Feminist Organization Black Women’s Blueprint. She launched and...

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TFW at Black Women’s Blueprint’s Fourth Annual Mother Tongue Monologues

Farah Tanis and Mayowa Alero Obasaju celebrating pioneering feminists Barbara Smith and First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray at Mother Tongue Monologues 2014 (photo credit: Aishah Shahidah...

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Feminists We Love: Dr. bell hooks

Dr. bell hooks In 2011, the legendary Black feminist scholar, cultural critic, and prolific writer Dr. bell hooks began to surface in social media spaces, pushing her work even further beyond the walls...

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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: For Darker Sisters

By Ahmad Greene-Hayes I am the great-great-great grandson of former enslaved Georgians—the Johnson family to be exact. I come from a lineage of individuals whom I do not know, and unfortunately know...

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