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It’s time to talk about the Black elitism and anti-Blackness portrayed on...
Photo courtesy: NBC I have written about NBC’s Emmy-winning hit show This is Us before. Once to critique the show for its (mis)handling of fatness and at another time to praise it for its depiction of...
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Getting socks for Christmas: On the pain we carry from holidays past
Photo via Pexels It was a few days before Christmas. The kids were off of school. I was wishing I had a nanny. “I’m supposed to take care of J,” my daughter declared. “And, I’m supposed to take care of...
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On being Black, being disposed of, and seeking status.
“You may as well leave my class now because you’re wasting my time and your’s,” Mr. Harris interrupted our Calculus class. “You’re never going to be anything anyway. Why are you even here?” At first, I...
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And then there are the ones we left behind…
“This shit is so hard, babe. People think it’s easy but it isn’t. It is so so hard,” I told my partner through tears this morning. I was standing in the tan-colored washroom area of the basement...
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Reckoning, the Combahee River Collective, and Black Women’s History Month
Erica Garner (Via Facebook) “What does freedom look like? We have never seen it. We have never touched it or tasted it. So, what is it?” I asked these questions in a recent Black Feminist class I...
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We can’t exist anywhere so let’s just drop the “while Black”
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” – James Baldwin At some point, we will be honest about white supremacy and racism and how they...
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Parenting Black children during quarantine is a different kinda thing
Where do I begin? I am a Black, queer, feminist, woman who grew up in Oakland, California in the nineteen nineties. I didn’t grow up having much but I had a very loving family. While we had our share...
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We are tired of watching us die
I accidentally saw George Floyd’s killing today. It auto-played on my Facebook feed, exposing me to the image of a white police officer kneeling on a Black man’s neck until he stopped moving. I’ll...
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Why I will no longer use my unpaid labor to discuss race in America with...
It seems whenever I’m on social media talking with other Black people about issues facing our community, there is always a gaggle of white people surveilling those interactions. I rarely engage them...
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It’s time we honor Black women for their anti-racist work
Photo: Jemele Hill (left) via Twitter and Munroe Bergdorf (right) via Twitter Trans and cis Black women remain the least recognized, most undermined truth tellers and strugglers for Black liberation...
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