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What Higher Ed Can Do to Repair What’s Being Broken for Black Women

Jan 17

What Higher Ed Can Do to Repair What’s Being Broken for Black Women

Jan 17

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m. yvonne taylor, ph.d.

Toni Morrison Showed Me That I’m Not Alone

It was her first, “The Bluest Eye,” daunting and prescient, that hinted at the Nobelist’s genius for capturing the universal desire and…

Aug 6, 2019

Toni Morrison Showed Me That I’m Not Alone

Aug 6, 2019

m. yvonne taylor, ph.d.

What Banning Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Really Mean

M. Yvonne Taylor

Feb 5

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Feb 5

m. yvonne taylor, ph.d.

A few months ago, after the overturning of Roe v.

One of those people was Monica Vaughan. Monica saw my post from mutual friend Cynthia Freeland’s share and reached out to Cynthia to ask if…

Sep 4, 2022

A few months ago, after the overturning of Roe v.

Sep 4, 2022

m. yvonne taylor, ph.d.

An Open Letter to American White Women on Roe v Wade

A few thoughts, particularly directed to my liberal White friends, especially the women, who refer to what’s happening in this country as…

Jun 28, 2022

Image of a FB post using a picture of a character in the TV show version of the Handmaid’s Tale giving the middle finger, with a comment underneath that reads “This is how we see your supreme court in France” and an image with a drawing of justices with traditional head scarves on their heads, to look as if they are from the Middle East.

Jun 28, 2022

m. yvonne taylor, ph.d.

Giving Birth as a Black Woman Is Why I Later Had an Abortion

Black women’s maternal mortality rates in the U.S. are three to four times higher than those of white women. Here in Texas, we have the…

May 16, 2022

Giving Birth as a Black Woman Is Why I Later Had an Abortion

May 16, 2022

m. yvonne taylor, ph.d.

What I Remember

My grandmother, who was a sharecropper and one generation out of enslavement, was born in 1899. Most of what I remember is about her home.

May 9, 2022

What I Remember

May 9, 2022

m. yvonne taylor, ph.d.

How B.J. Thomas and I Wound Up in the Same Family Tree

Ancestry.com taught me about white relatives that I’d never known but knew had to exist. One of them was the late B.J. Thomas.

Jun 19, 2021

How B.J. Thomas and I Wound Up in the Same Family Tree

Jun 19, 2021

m. yvonne taylor, ph.d.

Steep Hill

The sun shone through the limbs of the crabapple tree in the front yard, shining its rays boldly through the tangerine curtains of…

Jan 2, 2019

Steep Hill

Jan 2, 2019

m. yvonne taylor, ph.d.

A Eulogy for My Father

My Dad was a looming figure in my life. I spent many, many years (and many dollars on therapy) fearing him, then being angry with him…

Mar 3, 2018

A Eulogy for My Father

Mar 3, 2018

m. yvonne taylor, ph.d.

m. yvonne taylor, ph.d.

Critical org scholar living in and leading from the liminal space. Learn something? You can buy me a coffee: https://bit.ly/3xVlS5L

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