TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN My Aunt Gracie is one of my mother’s 10 sisters, the one with the gentle half smile. She’s always been a favored sister and aunt, beloved in our family for her sweetness and generosity and her quiet, seemingly eternal good nature. But sealed in my mind’s eye is an image […]
Author: Stephane Dunn
Stephane Dunn, Ph.D., is a writer and professor at Morehouse College where she is director of the Cinema, Television, & Emerging Media Studies program. She is the author of the 2008 book, Baad Bitches & Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films. Her writings have appeared inMs., The Chronicle of Higher Education, TheRoot.com, AJC, CNN.com, Ebony.com and Best African American Essays, among others. You can find her on Twitter @DrStephaneDunn.