by Daniel Johnson I donât know who said it first, and I’m sure it was a Black women, but I agree with the statement that Black women do not deserve to suffer or struggle before they are honored by the Black men who claim to love them. Black women are not things that Black men […]
According to Vox, Stacey Abrams formally ended her campaign to become the country’s first Black female governor in Georgia over the weekend. In a speech on Friday afternoon, Abrams acknowledged that her opponent, Brian Kemp, had a lead that was insurmountable in one of the most closely watched races of the midterm election season. âI […]
By âDJ Fergusonâ If you were to listen to âImmigrant Songâ by Led Zeppelinâreally listen to the words and let their meaning sink inâit becomes clear after a few verses that despite its name the song is not about immigration. Itâs about colonialism. We come from the land of the ice and snow From the […]
This essay contains spoilers for season one of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Briana L. Ureña Ravelo Everything is all about Sabrina Spellman, at least in her understanding of the world. Her know-it-all attitude takes center stage in the white woman centric story the first season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina spends its entirety possessed […]
Editorâs Note: This essay contains spoilers of season 1 of Haunting of Hill House and discussion of suicide I donât remember how my parents died in the nightmare, but I woke up screaming bloody murder. I had to have been about 4-years-old. I donât think I had considered being indefinitely away from my parents before, […]
by Josh Rivers Travis Alabanza is an electrifying talent, but thatâs obvious. One need only glance in their direction to see pulsing from them the potential and possibility of art manifesting in its purest, most acute form. To sit in their glow is to be enthralled, enchanted, mesmerised. Travis is a performance artist, poet and […]
On Wednesday, Oct. 24th, George Alan Bush, a 51-year old white man, entered a Kroger grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky and fatally shot two Black people. He reportedly told a white bystander afterwards, “Whites don’t shoot whites.”
Content Note: This essay contains details about childhood sexual assault My parents didnât hit me growing up. I know they hit my older siblings, but something had changed over the years before I got here. Maybe they saw it didnât help. Maybe they even knew hitting children causes significant harm. But I like to think […]
Four men suspected of being âmembers or associatesâ of the Rise Above Movement (RAM) have been charged in a criminal case stemming from the Charlottesville, Virginia âUnite the Rightâ rally in 2017. Cole White, Michael Miselis, Benjamin Daley and Thomas Gillen were each charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the federal riots statute […]
This essay contains discussions of death in childbirth and reproductive violences âWho she pregnant for?â This is how I remember my aunts inquiring about the potential father of any given person’s unborn child while I was growing up. Not âWho are they pregnant by?â or âWho are they pregnant with?â The question was always, Who […]
by Chris Saltmarch Like many of my contemporaries, I never really gave much thought to the sexual desires of women. Much of my life, when I really sit and think of it, I was totally oblivious to the needs and desires of my sexual partners. This was due in part to being raised in the […]
Six years ago, Florida’s Biscayne Police Department had become so adept at solving burglaries that the local word was all it took for them to solve cases was the stroke of a pen. Claiming a 100% clearance on all burglary cases, the Police Chief at the time, Raimundo Atesaino, even went on record saying at […]
