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Essex Hemphill. Photo: Poetry Foundation.

Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography

June 28, 2019June 26, 2019 Emerald Rutledge black feminism, Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, race, Resistance, sexuality

To close out Pride Month 2019, I compiled a list of texts ranging from traditional academic works to cultural

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Black Queer Theater as Love Praxis: An Interview with Jeremy O’Brian

May 28, 2019May 25, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Black church, black feminism, black politics, interview, LGBT, religion, theater

In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Jeremy O’Brian who is currently a Teaching Fellow at The New School’s

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Audre Lorde standing in front of board reading "Women are powerful and dangerous." Source: The Guardian.

Black Feminist Alchemy, Reproductive Justice, and the Carceral State

May 27, 2019May 25, 2019 Dan Berger black feminism, carceral state, mass incarceration, Prison Abolition, reproductive justice

In the poem “Revolution is One Form of Social Change,” Audre Lorde describes patriarchy as the foundation of the inequality

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Look Good, Do Good: Madam C.J. Walker and Rihanna’s Beauty Politics

May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 Tiffany M. Gill #WalkerCentennial, Activism, Beauty Politics, black feminism, black politics, black protest, Black women, capitalism, Madam CJ Walker, race

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death. As

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The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation

April 19, 2019August 12, 2022 Grace D. Gipson black feminism, black protest, Black women, Gender, Resistance

“Is the unruly woman masker still relevant?” This question posed by Xavier University dean and professor Kim Vaz-Deville speaks to

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