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  • What We’re Reading Now: Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism

    This book isn’t just for white women. While other publications praise Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot for being “a much-needed addition to feminist discourse” (Kirkus) or “a searing indictment of mainstream feminism” (NPR), they focus on what Kendall’s essay collection tells so-called mainstream (read: white) feminists about marginalized…

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    Maiysha Kai

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  • Thirst Traps Are Body Positive, Too

    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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    Nia Decaille

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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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    Janelle Harris Dixon

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  • On White Women Who Pen Criticisms of Beyoncé and Serena When White Feminism Isn’t Enuf

    The phrase “whiteness gone white” rings all the more true every time a talented-beyond-measure black woman graces us with her presence and is criticized for it. And white women are continually leading this cause. On Sunday, Feb. 12, a very pregnant Beyoncé graced our television screens as she levitated onto the Grammy stage with an…

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    Jenn M. Jackson

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