The Kardashians, White Privilege and Performing Blackness

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians franchise began in October 2007 with millions of views on its first episode. The reality show focuses on the personal and professional lives of the Kardashian-Jenner family.

Double Dutch: A Classic for Whom?

Black Queen Magic: Drag and RuPaul’s Drag Race as Black Feminist Action

A Black Feminist Construction of Veganism: An Embodied Act of Inclusionary Healing and Revitalization

A Black Feminist construction operates through its core principle to “decolonize the body” (Harper 2010) via the rejection of capitalism, social oppressions, and environmental degradation. A long and complicated history has…

Black Women Play Games?

I can see the negative tone that this title presents. This is because the idea of “playing games” is usually related…

Ghostbusters in Environmentalism: Black Women (Re)Shaping Environmental Justice

Black Woman Creativity, Resilience, and Celebration in Dance: An Exploration of Divining by Judith Jamison

Jamison, through the ballet Divining (premiering in 1984), seeks to subvert racist perceptions of dance styles rooted in Eurocentric tradition being…

“Romans, Countrywomxn, Lovers”: How a Production of Julius Caesar Needed Black Feminism to Rebuild Rome

Mom-Person: A Contemporary Interrogation of What It Means to Be a Black Nanny for White Children in the 21st Century

Kathleen Crow has been my whole world since I was three months old. She was my nanny, then my friend, my guardian, my foster mom…

The violence of the middle passage not only generates blackness and black womanhood as a dispossessed category but demands a reimagination of kinship itself. At the site of such tremendous violence and injury, fostering and reconceptualizing kinship bonds is a resistance strategy for black women that cannot be overshadowed. Black women throughout…

Agency Within the Medical Plantation

Science and societal norms have long situated the white cishet male perspective as the objective, unmarked lens: white cishet malehood is allowed to be considered unbiased and to produce knowledge that is labeled as unbiased when, in fact, this position is no more…

Modern Day Slavery in the Age of Mass Incarceration: How the TVPA has failed Victims of Human Trafficking