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Reading ‘Black Museum’ and ‘Get Out’ as comparative Afrofuturist zombie slave narratives
This essay contains spoilers for Get Out and Black Mirror S4, E6, “Black Museum” Can we just agree that Get Out is obviously a lost episode of Black Mirror? More specifically, it’s a companion tale to season four’s “Black Museum” (which feels very much like a series finale) that somehow found its way into Jordan […]
But Black women are not cocoons: I’m tired of being expected to mother Black men and applaud when they finally grow up
by Josie Pickens Even before Jay-Z sat down and began chatting with journalist and executive editor of The New York Times, Dean Baquet, I could tell that the rapper—turned business mogul—had come a long way from his origins as a Brooklyn based bad boy rapper who boasted on every record he released about how much […]
Terry Crews indicts men in perpetuating a culture of sexual harassment
Time Magazine recently named “The Silence Breakers” its Person of the Year, a nod to how sexual assault, rape or sexual harassment victims have taken back their power and their voices from a system and a society that shuns them when they come forward with their accounts of sexual violence. Included in this list is […]
How growing up in what some called a religious “cult” helped me make sense of police abolition
Editor’s Note: This post contains discussions of sexual and domestic violence. It also contains spoilers of the Netflix film One of Us. I’ve been thinking a lot about growing up Black in the Hare Krsna community lately, owed primarily to the fact that I am currently working on a memoir. But I was most recently […]
How Tyrese used misogynoir and Black patriarchy to gain sympathy, support, and joint custody
by Idiley This is a man’s world. This is a world that is designed to coddle and protect men from the consequences of their actions and interactions with women. This is a world where men are given the immense power to define these interactions and single-handedly deem their retelling of it as an unchallengeable truth. […]
Terry Crews lambasts return of agent he says groped him, while Matt Lauer is fired from ‘Today’
What does it take to professionally oust powerful men who sexually misbehave in the workplace? A few days ago, actor and author Terry Crews complained about talent agent Adam Venit’s return to Williams Morris Endeavor Entertainment. Crews said Venit grabbed Crews’ penis at an industry party in February 2016 – in front of Crews’ wife, […]
Brave 10-year-old Ronyde Christina Ponthieux records video plea to save Haitian protected status
The typical American 10-year-old child is probably not recording diplomatic pleas to the American president. But that child probably also does not have to hope the president will extend temporary protected status (TPS) for people from Haiti, El Salvador and Honduras. Unfortunately, Ronyde Christina Ponthieux’s family story positioned her to express far different concerns than […]
Zimbabwean coup takes power from the Mugabe family
Robert Mugabe and his family are “safe and secure” after a Zimbabwe coup early Wednesday, according to General Constantine Chiwenga. Those who are familiar with the African country’s politics such as Amherst College postdoctoral fellow Chipo Dendere, say that the term “secure” actually means that the Mugabe family are essentially under a kind of house arrest. […]
‘She’s Gotta Have It’ again: But with Netflix’s reboot, through the lens of Black women
She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee’s television reimagining of the film that made his career, is coming to Netflix on Thanksgiving Day. The concept of a free and sexual Black woman was groundbreaking when Lee introduced us to Nola Darling in 1986, and it is still groundbreaking in 2017, because there still aren’t many depictions […]
Erotic race play reveals how white supremacy is a perversion of unmatched proportions
I’ve been thinking a lot about porn and erotic display lately, but not in a way that brings me any pleasure. I’ve been thinking about them in an inquisitive, almost anthropological way that raises within me more questions than it does answers, and creates more discomfort and disgust than it does gratification. This is because […]
The anti-Blackness of believing there’s no support for queerness in the hood
By Benji Hart The block on Chicago’s far north side where I stay is majority Black, poor and working class. It’s also gay as hell. The matriarch of the street is a Black cis queer woman in her 50s named Ce. She lives with her wife, a Black woman in her 30s, her daughter from […]
‘Racism is as American as Baseball’ banner reminds Red Sox fans of uncomfortable truth
The notion that a country built on enslaved, trafficked African people’s labor can ever outpace race would be laughable if not so dangerous. Similarly, the idea that some places should be free from all race-based discourse (insert colorblind cubicles, melting pot mantras and safe spaces for all) is ridiculous. If there are no limits to […]