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Battling the Benevolent Patriarch
During my journey of Black feminist self-actualization I have come to notice almost everything that happens around me & analyze almost every interaction I experience & witness. There have always been times in my life where I dealt with an issue with someone & I knew that I was being treated wrongly or something just…
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Intro to Political Liberation Reading List
Greetings everyone, I have been getting a lot of emails & questions from hordes of people about what books to read in regards to political liberation. Below I have compiled a list of readings separated by topic. This is an introductory reading list so it does not have everything BUT it provides some CORE books…
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Solidarity Is For white Women…In Academia
I previously did a blog post called “Educated African/Intelligent = Weaponized African“, detailing my experiences in class when a number of classmates labeled me as a literal physical threat to their well-being because I was smarter than them. Such instances have happened to me all the time with people in class. Their stereotypical generalizations of Black women…
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Politics of Black Superwomanly Otherness
I am a poor Black woman in America. I have privileges, yes (e.g. able bodied, education, etc.). But lets understand something here, privileges aren’t linear or additive so its not some easy equation where you add them with disadvantage & they just spit out your statistically likelihood to get fucked over or get over on…
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They Forgot Mammy Had A Brain AKA Defending Yourself While A Black Woman in Class
This past semester I experienced a horrifying incident where the professor of the Readings in Feminist Theory course I was taking (a graduate course in Global Gender Studies) assaulted me in class in front of my fellow classmates. The professor is a White woman, tenured professor, & known for her Liberal Feminism in the department & subtly…
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The Context Of White Supremacy: Graduate School Racism
So I was recently a guest on the Context of White Supremacy show on the Black Talk Radio Network discussing Racism/Racialization & providing tips to graduate students of color who are dealing with racism in academia. Check out the link: http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-124171/TS-837995.mp3
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“Me-search”: When White People Justify Their Colonial White Gaze
So I have had to hear this god awful word get thrown around a lot for the past week or so. For those who don’t know or who had the luxury of never hearing it before, “Me-search” refers to observation bias, the idea that a researcher who is part of a sub-population that they are…
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How to be an ALLY & not an Asshole
So I have been having this conversation with a lot of people lately. For some odd reason, no matter what the struggle is, the privileged continue to have NO GRASP on what oppression is, what it means to be an ally, or how to just not be an asshole. So I decided to do a…
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Black Feminism: A Short Intro
So below is a short introduction into what Black Feminism is, why it is needed, & then a little reading list of some books I have found profoundly helpful. Liberation politics should not be divided nor should it be on a quest for liberation while it stifles the voices of other oppressed groups. Black feminism is a…
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Constant State of Rage: Being an Academic Misfit in Class
So as a continuation to providing survival tactics for people of color (especially Black women & Black LGBTQ*) in academia I have decided to share some of my experiences and a bit of my discussions with my brother Will about some tactics of surviving whitewashed, imperialist, and andro-centric discussions in the classroom. “To be black…