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

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

In this age of technology, machine-learning algorithms are used everyday by people around the world, influencing interactions…
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Pazia Bermudez-Silverman
I Wanted To See More Films That Told Stories Like Mine, So I Created Sidewalks

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

The paper I wrote for my Africana Feminisms class is titled “Black Women Filmmakers: On The Frontiers of Film and Television, On Screen and…
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The Daily Bev
Cardi B’s Uses of the Erotic: Twerking and Rapping as a pregnant Black woman

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

Cardi B, born Belcalis Almanzar, is a young Black woman who has launched a successful career as a rapper in the American music and…
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Nikkie
When Battered Women Bite Back: The Story of Marissa Alexander

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

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

Jamison, through the ballet Divining (premiering in 1984), seeks to subvert racist perceptions of dance styles rooted in Eurocentric…
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Skenda Jean-Charles

The violence of the middle passage not only generates blackness and black womanhood as a…

In her forward to Sula, Toni Morrison writes: “Nobody was minding us, so we minded ourselves”. Black women, as referenced by Morrison, have…
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Erica A
Ghostbusters in Environmentalism: Black Women (Re)Shaping Environmental Justice

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

Like all canons, mainstream environmental literature is no exception: white folks monopolize a degree of authoritarian Truth without citing…
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Katherine Dicaprio
Black Feminism and the Museum Over Time

Black Feminism and the Museum Over Time

From the protests of a white artist’s representation of Emmett Till in his casket at the Whitney Museum to the firings of three female…
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Kaya Hill

The violence of the middle passage not only generates blackness and black womanhood as a…

Erica A

Face Value: What’s left when Annalise Keating and Alicia Keys reject the Culture of Dissemblance…

Randi Richardson

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

Michael O'Neill

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

eryn nichol
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