The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read Dr. Joy James’ response to the “Chicago Statement.” We honor these words. We give gratitude for the gift...
View ArticleThe Time Has Come for White Women to Move Beyond Lip Service: Toward an...
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson call to White Women (and others). She asks “What are you doing—with, through, and...
View ArticleA Commitment to/with/for The Damned
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read a collective statement from The Damned Collective to/with/for The Damned. We ask that you read this...
View ArticleOn #survivingrkelly: deconstruction, accountability, and a #networkofpredation
I finished Episode 6 of #survivingrkelly executive produced by dream hampton late last night. Full disclosure: I am a Black woman sexual assault survivor who used to love me some R. Kelly, and yes,...
View ArticleBlack Feminism and Black Moses, Part I
W. E. B. Du Bois’s poignant words in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,” is scripture for Black folk in America. Citizenry after...
View ArticleBlack Feminism and Black Moses, Part 2
Today is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I almost hate that we commemorated a holiday in his honor because I’m convinced iconicity leads to erasure. And though the epitome of Black Moses, he...
View ArticleTHE MAKING OF A NEW ANTI-RACIST FEMINIST WORKING CLASS; #Feminism4the99
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing this just a few weeks after the Women’s marches of 2019. Tens of thousands of women — non-binary, trans, gender variant, queer, cis, disabled, every color, rich and...
View ArticleBlack Lesbian Resistance and Resilience
By Sheila Alexander-Reid Editors’ Note: This herstory was written and read by Sheila Alexander-Reid, founder of the Women in the Life Association, to millennial Black queer women and Black lesbians...
View ArticleThe Lemonade Reader: Black Feminists Read Beyoncé
The Lemonade Reader, edited by Kinitra D. Brooks and Kameelah L. Martin, is a critical study on not only Black women, Black feminism, and Black popular culture, but what many deem as “Beyoncé...
View ArticleDEI Dreaming: Confusing Inclusion and Tokenism
I signed out of zoom, sat up straight, placed my elbows on the table, clasped my hands together, pulled them up to my mouth, closed my eyes, and sighed out loud from exhaustion. I’d been zooming...
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