Africana Feminisms

The Coded Gaze: Algorithmic Bias? What is it and Why Should I Care?

I Wanted To See More Films That Told Stories Like Mine, So I Created Sidewalks

Cardi B’s Uses of the Erotic: Twerking and Rapping as a pregnant Black woman

When Battered Women Bite Back: The Story of Marissa Alexander

When 31-year-old Marissa Alexander, African American mother of three, shot a single warning bullet into the wall during her husband’s rage in 2012, she was stunned when she was charged with three counts of aggravated…

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…

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…

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

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

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…