black feminism
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Red Lip Theology: Yes, Progressive Church Girls Do Exist
Currently, I am navigating a depressive episode. While I have access to the resources (therapy, medicine, communal support) to ensure my wellness, living with depression can be difficult. The triggers come fast, and when it hits, all you can do is ride the wave. But while I was talking to one of my best friends…
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Black Women, Don’t Throw Up Hands—Call the Bank of Hysteria to Vent
Sexual harassment got you down? Microaggressions become too much? Poverty a pain in the ass? Racism got you fucked up? Well, black women, there’s now a place to place all of your justifiable but sometimes “problematic” anger, an actual depository to just vent, let loose and scream (or text) your ass off like Nola Darling…
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Black Ukrainian Woman Faces 5 Years in Prison After Baring Breasts During Protest
Angelina Diash is a black woman, a native-born Ukrainian patriot. She loves her country but hates the direction in which it’s headed. Corruption is rampant. The leadership talks a good game about democracy, but at times, she says, it feels like a dictatorship. Though with a new, pro-Western government in office, Diash felt she at…
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Thirst Traps Are Body Positive, Too
Two months ago on a whim, I got my first tattoo. After an hour and a half, I emerged with a tiny Egyptian cross etched between my least favorite parts of my body—my breasts. It was a daily reminder not to ignore them and to finally start to embrace them. It’s safe to say I…
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Mayor of Paris Seeks to Ban City’s 1st Afro-Feminist Festival Because It Excludes ‘White People’
Paris is buggin’. Or at least its mayor is. She says she will ask the city to formally ban Paris’ first Afro-feminist festival on the grounds that it is discriminatory against “white people.” Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo made her announcement on Twitter, adding that she reserved the right “to prosecute the organizers for discrimination,” because…
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#BlackGirlFeminism: Being Intentional About Raising Black Feminist Daughters
Mother’s Day is a triggering day for many women, but there is also joy and community and love. This is especially true for those of us black women who have to navigate not only interpersonal relationships with our children but also our relationship to the state. It is a terrifying task trying to raise aware,…
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Black Feminism Should Serve the Women Who Aren’t at the Table, Too
There’s a young woman who lives on the first floor of my apartment building. She’s cute, probably in her mid-20s, although life has prematurely etched the signature of age across her face and carriage. She’s a mama to four sons, none of them more than 5 or 6 years old, all absolutely adorable, stair-jumping, ripping-and-tearing,…
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The Radical Uses of Anger: All White Women Aren’t the Enemy, but White Supremacy Always Is
Black women have never labored under the assumption that all womanhood is created equal in a white supremacist society. We have had to fight for access to the full spectrum of womanhood, to be treated not as breeding chattel but as fully human. We know white supremacy to be a feminist issue on the most…