PinnedMember-onlyFor Black American Womxn, There Are No Safe Spaces, Only Empty OnesTwo years ago on my birthday, Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, signed the Safe Spaces Act, a framework for penalizing sexual harassment. The Technical Drafting Committee and the Philippine Commission on Women were charged with transforming that loose framework into a specific legislative code. Five days ago, that code…Black Women9 min read
Published in ZORA·PinnedMember-only5 Phrases Your Black Friend Wishes You’d Stop SayingIf you start practicing now, you can probably eliminate these words from your vocabulary by Black History Month — Statistically speaking, about 75% of White people don’t even have a Black friend, but on the off chance that you are one of the White people who do, I have a message for you from your (one) Black friend: Do better. In her New York Times bestselling book White Fragility…Racism7 min read
Published in The Brain is a Noodle·22 hours agoMember-onlySelf-DoubtA UkiahPoetry1 min readPhoto by Johnathan Kaufman on UnsplashSelf-Doubt----4
2 days agoMember-onlyIs it love or Stockholm syndrome?A senryu Fellow Black people: should we leave America or wait here to die? Ajah Hales is a writer and Race Educator from East Cleveland Ohio. She may want to underground railroad her way out of this country. You can read Ajah here or hire her here.Raceinamerica1 min readPoetryIs it love or Stockholm syndrome?A senryuPhoto by Andra C Taylor Jr on UnsplashFellow Black people: should we leave America or wait here to die?Ajah Hales is a writer and Race Educator from East Cleveland Ohio. She may want to underground railroad her way out of this country. You can read Ajah here or hire her here.----
Mar 27Member-onlyKeep Your Good Intentions — If You Want to Show Up for People From Marginalized Identity Groups, try Acting Intentionally.It’s 2022. By now, most people have heard that when it comes to race, intentions don’t matter. But what if they do? Not in the I-had-good-intentions-so-you-can’t-call-me-on-my-actions type way — that’s not flying in 2022. As Jamie Utt told everyday feminism: “What we need to realize is that when it comes…Race3 min read
Published in An Injustice!·Feb 14Member-onlyStop ‘Protecting’ Your Children from Racial Awareness and Social ResponsibilityYou’re not protecting your kids. You’re protecting your racism — “I wouldn’t feel comfortable showing that to my [younger] child.” a Eurodescendant woman tells me when I ask her to consider having her sons join a youth discussion of When They See Us. Her youngest is thirteen. She considers herself an ally. Yet when given the option, she can ‘protect’…Parenting5 min read
Published in Cultured·Jan 31Member-only5 Ways to Tell if You’re an Ally or AllyabilityThe real reason why none of your closest friends are Black — “Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man who has long been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species…Under…Racism8 min read
Published in The Brain is a Noodle·Dec 29, 2021Member-onlyWhen White Womxn CryAn ode to estuaries, fjords and fountains When white women cry, Black men die, Black womxn get fired, White men heave a sigh. “Our cherished property is our solemn duty, We have to protect Karen, Nancy, and Judy.” They punish the chattel when we get unruly Don’t talk back to Karen And don’t piss off…Poetry2 min read
Sep 22, 2021Member-onlyGhost Skinning: The Biggest Domestic Terrorism Threat You’ve Never Heard OfThe FBI got some splainin’ to do. . . Reading Allison Gaines’ article, Do You Hate White People? reminded me of how uninformed the general public is about domestic terrorism in the United States. Allison’s article mentions “the growing threat of domestic terrorism” centered around “confronting white supremacy.” We don’t…Terrorism7 min read
Published in An Injustice!·Sep 17, 2021Member-onlyThe Birth Dearth: The Sad but True Reason Why What’s Happening in Texas Right Now Shouldn’t Surprise YouIt was always going to end this way — Snitches get riches in Texas nowadays. The Lone Star state’s new anti-reproductive freedom act empowers friends, neighbors and co-workers to sue anyone that “induces…aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion.” The actual person receiving the abortion can’t be sued. But the doctor who performed it, the would-be…Women6 min read
