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The Crucial Lessons Solange Teaches In 'A Seat At The Table'
2016 was Beyoncé's year. Her album Lemonade is inarguably one of the most profound cultural expressions of black femininity produced this year (and, let’s be honest, ever). Her thought-provoking lyric...
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Experiencing Racial Bias In Preschool
When I was in preschool I hated my skin. While I had bronze skin, brown eyes, and brown hair, my friends in preschool looked different. Most of them had fair skin, blue eyes, and blond hair. I thought...
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Combating Asian American Invisibility In Public Life
“You can’t be what you can’t see.”
As a mixed Asian-American woman, I’ve grown to despise this phrase. Growing up, I cannot remember learning of or looking up to any public figure who looked like me....
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September 22, 2016 | Faatimah Solomon |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Misogyny,
Race/Ethnicity
The History Of Banning Black Women's Hair
When I turned twelve, I started faithfully straightening my hair every single week. By the time I was fourteen years old, therefore, I had straightened my hair at least one hundred and four times. At ...
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September 20, 2016 | Gabby Catalano |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Media,
Misogyny,
Race/Ethnicity
We Need To Stop Sexualizing And Policing Women Who Have Curvy Bodies
Patrice Brown, a fourth-grade teacher in Atlanta who is known for being at the center of the hashtag #TeacherBae, is being criticized in the media — not for her body of work, but rather her body at wo...
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The Burkini Ban And The Long Legacy Of Controlling Women's Bodies
Imagine you are at the beach, sitting on the sand, and enjoying the sounds of waves crashing. Suddenly you are confronted by armed police officers. The police officers stand over you and demand that...
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Being A Swifty Who Rejects White Feminism
Hi, my name is Karla, and I have been a die hard Swifty for as long as I can remember. I pre-ordered all of Swift's albums, We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together was one of my favorite shower songs...
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How I Fit Into Mainstream Pride Events As A Queer Black Woman
I realized that I wasn’t straight when I was about 15 years old. Soon after, I got involved with my high school's Gay-Straight Alliance. During one of the club's meetings, the steering committee chair...
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Why Proper Representation Matters: The Invisible Minority in Pop Culture
I have never had a hero who looked quite like me. Growing up, my favorite shows on Disney Channel included Hannah Montana and Wizards of Waverly Place – shows with complex, interesting female characte...
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August 09, 2016 | Vicki Soogrim |
Feminism,
Misogyny,
Politics,
Race/Ethnicity,
Violence against women
The Powerful Message of Mothers of the Movement
On Tuesday, July 26th, several mothers of police brutality victims spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. United by the organization Mothers of the Movement, the women joined to...
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Being An Ally Is About More Than Your Own Identity
In the wake of the Orlando mass shooting and throughout this month of LGBTQPIA+ pride, I have seen an immense presence of online support and love for the LGBTQPIA+ community — support for which I am i...
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The Problem With Gossiping About Beyoncé and 'Lemonade'
We are now almost two months into the post-Lemonade universe, and it still seems the biggest public conversation the album has inspired is a debate about the true identity of "Becky with the good hair...
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The Truth About Having "Bad" Hair
I am a young Senegalese woman with “kinky” hair — specifically, type 4A/4B according to Andre Walker’s hair chart — and I have heard every comment in the book about it. Since preschool I have been to...
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It's Time To Start Exercising "Oppositional Resistance"
For a long time, the feminist movement failed to include the voices of marginalized groups. While criticism of this reality has seemed to particularly emerge in recent years, the feminist movement mus...
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We Need To Talk About The Flint Water Crisis and Environmental Racism
Mainstream America just got a wake-up call about the importance of pushing back on environmental racism and it came from an unexpected source: Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
On February 25th...
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This Is How "Misogynoir" Affects Black Campus Sexual Assault Survivors
The term "misogynoir" — a fusion of the words misogyny and “noir,” the French word for black — was coined by the queer, black feminist Moya Bailey in 2010 and refers to the intersection of sexism and ...
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How I Am Trying To Overcome A White Feminist Mindset
As a straight, upper middle class, private school educated, white teenage girl, my first understanding of feminism was undeniably "white feminism." This type of feminism is one that fails to address i...
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Why Beyoncé's "Formation" Video Is So Important
This past Saturday, Beyoncé released the first new song from her upcoming album, entitled "Formation." The song, and accompanying video, may be the most important works the star has released. If her 2...
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5 Tips For New Feminist Bloggers of Color
I became a feminist at 16 years old. At the time, the word "feminist" wasn't nearly as popular as it is today. In fact, I vividly remember trying to explain sexism and gender inequality to my high sch...
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What Does Voting Really Mean? A Look At Saudi Arabian Women’s First Election
Saudi Arabia is known for limiting women's rights. Women who live in the conservative Islamic nation must wear an abaya, a full-length black cloak covering their hair and body, and an additional scarf...
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What The Reaction To Sandra Bland's Case Reveals About White Feminism
Sandra Bland, an African-American woman arrested for failing to use her turn signal, was found dead in her jail cell three days after her arrest in July. On Wednesday, December 23, a Texas grand jury ...
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How I Discovered The Power Of Black Womanhood
After spending the last school year immersed in political turmoil and tension on my college campus, I decided this past summer that it was time to actively choose to either eject or change the things ...
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The Alleged Racism at a Yale Fraternity Reveals A Much Bigger Problem
In November, Yale University's chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was accused of denying girls of color entrance into one of their parties. Racial tension was already brewing on Yale’s campus at the ti...
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Why Afrofuturism Is a Black Feminist Praxis
The most suffocating thing about being a black girl in a white supremacist, patriarchal world is the constant reminder that I’m not allowed to define myself. The media constantly reinforces this by fa...
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What Lena Dunham's '8 Thoughts On Feminism' Reveal About The Movement
In late October, Vanity Fair published a quirky short video featuring eight of Lena Dunham's thoughts on feminism. These thoughts included points like why calling out a women for being “un-feminist” i...