“The masculinist mode of representing history makes it so that, too often, credit is not given where it’s due.” These words—among an impassioned treasure-trove of others—were delivered by longtime political […]
Tag: Angela Davis
With These Posters, Celebrate Black History Month All Year Long
For the past 28 days of Black History Month, photographer Eunique Jones Gibson has put up a photo poster a day of an African American child posed as an historic […]
Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth
I am the woman: Dark, repaired, healed Listening to you. … —Alice Walker, from her poem “Remember?” For more than four decades, Alice Walker has used the written word to […]
Top 100 Feminist Non-Fiction Countdown: 40-31
As we get closer to the top, here are career-defining works from the likes of Angela Y. Davis, Kate Bornstein, Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof, Patricia Hill Collins, Susie Orbach […]
What Would an Intersectional Women’s History Month Look Like?
Women’s History Month gives us an opportunity to celebrate and reflect on the legacy of global women. Yet, year after year, the faces of Women’s History Month are the same: […]
Can’t Stop the Women of Hip-Hop
My awakening to Black feminist thought came in 1989 when Queen Latifah, with British rapper Monie Love, rapped about “Ladies First” and opened the music video for this powerful track […]
Don’t Ms.: Rape New York, UNRATED and more!
Everywhere: Happy Valentine’s Day! If you need some ideas for how to celebrate a day of love, check out How to Have a Feminist Valentine’s Day. Paris: If you happen […]
Empowered and Sexy
Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality and Popular Culture by Tulane University professor Shayne Lee (Hamilton Books, 2010) revolutionizes the politics of black female respectability. Instead of writing about how hypersexualized […]