Learning to groom my hair without fuss, with full shrinkage on vacation, is a small but vain victory of self-love in a world where Black women’s lives are so thoroughly undervalued.
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Is There a Place For the Black Radical in the Nonprofit World?
It feels like the Nonprofit Industrial Complex is no place for Black people looking to effect real, measurable, and more importantly, sustainable change in the lives of vulnerable populations.
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Black (S)Kin, Queer Body: Homophobia and the Trap of Being Twice as Good
More nuance is needed around Black homophobia in similar ways that the framework of misogynoir gave a fuller understanding of the experiences of Black women at the intersections of racism and misogyny.
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Cursing, Spanglish, and Respectability Politics
The white standards of “proper” were embedded into the moral and ethical superiority code that I adopted.
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Locatora Radio: Meet the Women Bringing You Brown Girl Hour
As Locatora Radio, we wanted our podcast to be Survivor & Femme focused, intersectional, fun, and entertaining to honor our experiences as Latinas.
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Driving While Black: In Response to the Death of Bianca Roberson
If you add all the racially motivated traffic stops up for entire municipalities, an insidious, institutional problem becomes clear.
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Call Me By My Names: A Story of Shame, Trauma, and Liberation in a Chinese Name
For twenty-two years I had been conditioned to regard my Chinese identity—starting with my name—as a source of embarrassment and inadequacy.
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Maori Karmael Holmes
Filmmaker, curator, and founder of the BlackStar Film Festival, Maori Karmael Holmes, has created an intersectional, feminist space for filmmakers of color to exist, converse and screen their creative output every year in Philadelphia.
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A Culture of Shame: How Revenge Porn Affects Mental Health
How can we help those overcome the paralysis of shame?
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