The lived experiences of international students in the Global North reveal an invisible border that leads to naturalized differentiation stemming from stereotypes and discriminatory practices.
Invisible Borders in the Everyday Lives of International Students and Belonging Read More »
Depathologizing Black women’s sexuality should involve acknowledging Black women’s capacity to affirm their sexuality for and between themselves.
“‘Callin’ Out My Own Name’: Black Women’s Music, Sexual Agency, and Sounds of Pleasure Read More »
The cartography of my ugliness was a cynical drawing, a depiction I worked on day and night during the era of my pubescent body. I surveyed myself and added lines to the drawing that had not been there a day earlier. I looked in the mirror and erased and drew over the previous lines, which
Cartography of My Ugliness Read More »
Be it through punk music, self-publishing, or other types of collective expression that involve embracing being otherwise, the spark of Black women is eclectic and eternal.
She Burns: The Heat of Black Women in Blues and Punk Read More »
As a U.S. college student in the 1960s, Eva Paterson found her place in the world of activism and spent her life prioritizing social justice, across decades and various avenues. Now 76 years old and still fighting, Eva shares her reflections on a life of resistance and creation.
Reflections on Resistance: A Dialogue with a Long-Time American Activist Read More »
Stating simply the intent to fight Anti-Black racism in queer spaces isn’t enough. Opening our minds to criticism and approaching it with curiosity rather than guilt or shame greatly increases our ability and willingness to make positive changes.
Anti-Black Racism in Queer Spaces: adapted from a zine Read More »
Societal impressions of people and their pain are shaped by interlocking oppressions, such as racism, sexism, misogyny, colourism, capitalism, ableism, and much more.
On Hard Truths and Soft Hearts Read More »
Zwarte Piet, a caricature of an enslaved Black man, acts as an effective gatekeeper on who is allowed to be critical of Dutch culture.
The Kids Are All White? Blackface & Belonging in the Netherlands Read More »
Through entrepreneurship, Muslim immigrant women in Norway are challenging binaries like native/foreign and secular/religious and crafting new forms of citizenship based on contribution, not conformity.
“I have lied to myself about how American I am. Now, I want to tell the truth. That may be the Blackest thing I can do.”
The Responsibility of Being Black Read More »
The idea of an America without Black people has a long history in the white national imagination. While often dismissed as an “absurdist fantasy,” as the US approaches its semiquincentennial, a new, more complex, but equally irrational version has appeared.
The Inconvenience of Black America Read More »
