BYP x AirGo
Airgo x BYP with Janae Bonsu
Janae Bonsu talks about learning stillness and finding peace, imagining new interventions when gender violence needs to be addressed, her cheese game, and much more.
Politics
How the myth that all Black parents give kids “the talk” about police is used to silence resistance
My mother told me that I should always fight for what I believe in, whether it brings me personal harm or not.
Word
“These rivaling details make the act of spectatorship—no matter one’s relationship to cinema—for Black audiences, a combat sport by which we gamble, with each ticket. ”
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On Dumplings and Death- A Thanksgiving Remembrance
Nothing can prepare a person to watch life drain from the eyes of someone they most found comfort in.
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Black women are punished for prioritizing our mental health
Black women and girls, like myself and Summer, have been told to suck it up and endure far too often.
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How the human trafficking crisis and everyday sexual assault are connected
The ways men use power and control to traffick people through sex trade feel so closely related to the dangerous trans-misogyny cis-men use to control and groom vulnerable transwomen for their pleasure.
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What Tamar Braxton’s comments about men not wanting sex reveal about compulsory (hetero)sexuality
What I hope we can also acknowledge here is how compulsory (hetero)sexuality breeds this kind of logic, as well as how it places limitations and unfair expectations on us to perform our sexualities under constraints that ultimately do not serve us.
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How one online community has channeled their misogynoir into the “Save Yourself Black Men” movement
Proponents believe SYSBM is a growing international movement, but in reality, it’s just a regurgitation of unresolved problems of internalized racism and misogynoir among Black men that has found a home on the Internet.
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Protecting Black children should never mean re-injuring them, owning them, or denying their sexual autonomy
Considering the terrors which have shaped the meanings of Black childhood, by centering ourselves—our paternal desires, demands, egoism—in our children's stories, we only further breed the dread by becoming a part of it.
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Protecting Black children should never mean re-injuring them, owning them, or denying their sexual autonomy
Considering the terrors which have shaped the meanings of Black childhood, by centering ourselves—our paternal desires, demands, egoism—in our children's stories, we only further breed the dread by becoming a part of it.
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Looking to the Blues as record of Black folks’ loss and longing
If we can look to the Blues as record, what we come to understand is how a people under persistent duress come to understand life and its meanings.
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These 2 films reveal the powerful ways Black queer women find pleasure despite heteronormative violence
Our avenues for joy and love are expansive even in the face of the violently compulsive heteronormativity.
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Virginity and hymen myths must be challenged to protect Black teens like Deyjah Harris
We absolutely must prioritize combating the hypersexualization of Black children and teens, and the misogyny that allows Black parents to fancy themselves as owners of any part of their daughters—especially their hymen.
Entertainment
Exploring the Black spectator’s relationship to film
It’s impertinent, as I found then and as I write now, that we consider what Black spectatorship means and how we’ve come to our relationship to the silver screen.
Education
After graduating college, I received my best education from my uncle and his books
When I was not reading, my uncle and I would talk. He or I would mention something I was reading and then he was off and I was just hanging on. Discussions on DuBois would spiral into discussing the importance of Booker T. Washington, which would lead to Black education in general
Videos
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According to Vox, eight players from the Ole Miss men’s basketball program knelt during the national anthem in protest of a rally on campus in support of... more
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According to the Miami Herald, a 50-year-old man from Philadelphia who lives in the Florida Keys found himself on the fast track to a deportation to Jamaica, despite... more
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According to USA Today, an independent autopsy commissioned by the Bradford family shows that Emantic Bradford Jr. was shot from behind three times by police during the... more
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Border Patrol fires tear gas, chases asylum seekers and closes the border to keep them out of the US
According to Buzzfeed News, late Sunday evening, Border Patrol agents temporarily closed the San Ysidro Port of Entry, one of the most used border crossings in the... more
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The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK) Foundation, led by Kerry Kennedy, started a month-long mission to bail out hundreds of women and juveniles at Rikers Island.... more
BYP x AirGo
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Janae Bonsu talks about learning stillness and finding peace, imagining new interventions when gender violence needs to be addressed, her cheese game, and much more.
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. This month’s #BYPSpotlight... more
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. First up is Barbara... more
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AirGo is back for our second episode in front of a live audience! This time, we’re excited to launch our #BYPSpotlight, a collaboration with Black Youth Project, a... more
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Black Youth Project joins forces with Chicago podcast, AIRGO, for a year-long series featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Stay tuned for a new episode... more
Religion
We are more than just good or bad: How the God of the Binary fails Black people
By Itoro Udofia I grew up under the tutelage of The God of the Binary. He was forever in opposition to a ubiquitous outside force. He was the Good opposed to Evil. The... more
Gender-and-sexuality
These 2 films reveal the powerful ways Black queer women find pleasure despite heteronormative violence
Our avenues for joy and love are expansive even in the face of the violently compulsive heteronormativity.
Race
How the myth that all Black parents give kids “the talk” about police is used to silence resistance
My mother told me that I should always fight for what I believe in, whether it brings me personal harm or not.
Health
Black people self harm, too
With so few studies exploring self injury and race, I imagine there is actually a dearth of information on the subject and that Black people under report.
