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12 (or so) Questions I have After Talking to a Black Man About #SurvivingRKelly

12 (or so) Questions I have After Talking to a Black Man About #SurvivingRKelly

Feminism, Gender, In the News, Pop Culture, Race, Rape culture, Trigger warning

More specifically, these are questions I thought of after talking about the Lifetime documentary series “Surviving R. Kelly,” to a Black man who thinks protecting his 3 daughters is enough to stop a system of predatory behavior against Black girls and to counter his...
Dance Feminism

Dance Feminism

Best Of, Black Diaspora, Feminism, Gender, History, Pleasure, Rape culture, Research and Scholarship, Respectability, Sex, Travel, Trigger warning, Yes Means Yes

Originally published August 2, 2014 I spent a portion of my last day at 33 dancing and thinking about the messages in the dance. On July 30, our study abroad group had a wonderful lecture on traditional dances of Trinidad and Tobago. Because there are so many people...
The Night My Body Said No

The Night My Body Said No

Best Of, Feminism, In the News, Pleasure, Rape culture, Trigger warning, Yes Means Yes

In a recent interview on All Things Considered, Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus, talked with NPR about Betsy DeVos’s recent decision to roll back the Obama Administration’s Title IX guidelines on how colleges...
The Decade Before Consent

The Decade Before Consent

Best Of, In the News, Pop Culture, Rape culture, Trigger warning

*Trigger warning* The week of August of 15, my news feed was filled with damning articles and opinions about Nate Parker and support of his acclaimed film Birth of a Nation, now that news has resurfaced of a rape he was acquitted of 15 years ago. As I interrogated my...
On my bicycle, at the intersection of blackness and womanhood, with feminism crossing diagonally

On my bicycle, at the intersection of blackness and womanhood, with feminism crossing diagonally

Best Of, Feminism, History, Pop Culture, Race, Rape culture, Trigger warning

“If a woman says she was raped, I believe her, because for all she has to go through, why would she lie?” The words I heard my freshman year in college in a discussion group between black and Jewish women greet me as I unlock my bicycle. Riding my bike often helps me...
A Black Family Memoir from A Different World

A Black Family Memoir from A Different World

Best Of, Pop Culture, Rape culture

Originally published Oct. 17, 2015 Since I see no reason to add to the thousands of think pieces EBONY magazine’s November cover story, “Cosby vs. Cliff,” undoubtedly will spark–and since Awesomely Luvvie won the think-piece...

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