Black girls’ existence, like Marsai Martin’s existence, is hyper-scrutinized in an effort to break them and their spirit. This essay mentions sexual violence and discusses r/pe culture “Protect Black girls,” they said. It’s always a nice exercise in imagining the fantastical when people pretend that these are things that already happen in our world. But...
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I Stayed Silent Because Black Girls and Women Like Me Aren’t Listened To
Black and white women have different lived experiences even when we face the same violence on and off campus. [TW: this essay contains mentions of rape.] “The Senate confirms Judge Brett Kavanaugh.” My Uber driver read his CNN text alert aloud and made this unsolicited announcement as we sat in bumper to bumper traffic. My...
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R. Kelly Is A Predator, But He Gets Away With It Because We Don’t Protect Black Girls
The latest news about R. Kelly illustrates how we are failing Black girls, we are failing Black women. A new chapter in the R. Kelly saga broke yesterday when Buzzfeed published an investigative piece about the artist. The article details accusations of the singer/sexual predator having a ‘cult’ or harem of young women whom he...
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Bridget Jones’s Baby is Nothing More Than White Privilege Coated in Satire
So I watched Bridget Jones’s Baby for the sake of understanding the plot of a white woman trying to figure out who her baby’s father is… And LOL, no surprises here! It’s white privilege fried in satire per the usual with white romantic comedies. The storyline only works as comedy because Bridget Jones is a middle- to...