They will make you an abolition mammy for the sake of everyone else’s freedom and extract your sacrifices from your flesh to build the world after this one. After the abolition mammy is sacrificed, what is left of the world? By Hunter Shackelford I am the slave Harriet would’ve shot. I am the slave who...
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How The Colonial History of Hypersexualization Obscures the Possibility of Black Asexuality
Black asexuals deserve to have more visibility and clarity, and Black people deserve to embrace our sexualities outside of the confines of prescribed hypersexualization. This essay contains discussions of sexual and reproductive violences, and racist fetishization “Western social thought associates Blackness with an imagined uncivilized, wild sexuality and uses this association as one lynchpin of...
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Oprah For President?
Oprah’s speech obviously made a huge impression and once again a Black woman is being called upon to save us from white recklessness/racism. Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes award-acceptance speech ignited a fiery debate on social media, as people speculated over whether or not she should run for President. Discussions ranged from complete adoration and reckless...
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But They Ain’t Messin’ With No Broke Niggas: In Defense of Scammers, Hos and Baby Mamas
What are our expectations for Black women and femmes who are denied access to financial, emotional and physical safety and sustainability within our current social systems, to find means of survival? Do we expect that Black women and femmes are given options to unsubscribe from ho culture or wifey culture (anti-ho culture)? The reality is that...