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Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Nov 30, 2018

“Am I Being Paranoid? Being a Woman of Color in Academia”

“I later recounted the incident to another person of color, who nodded along at my ambivalence about why that statement was bothering me. But even as I was describing the incident to him, I thought to myself that I must look like…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Oct 21, 2018

“‘A Nasty Boy’ Is the Gender-Noncomforming Magazine Turning Nigerian Conservatism On Its Head”

““There were so many times when I would pitch stories, and you know, Nigeria is a very conservative country — pretentious as well — so a lot of topics were off the…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Sep 27, 2018

“MY GENDER IS BLACK”

“In the groundbreaking essay “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe”, Hortense Spillers argues that how gender has been configured for Black people through slavery and its afterlife is outside of “American grammar.” Calling it “the dehumanizing, ungendering, and defacing project of African persons,”…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Aug 12, 2018

“White Men”

“When race keeps intruding into your romances, you start to wonder why. You look for patterns. I used to think the problem with white men is that they want control, a childish and obvious hankering. They’re used to it, socialized to seek it. But over time, I started to believe that the problem is that…

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Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

May 8, 2018

“The Burkini-Bikini False Equivalence and Your Disproportionate Outrage”

“When a woman’s community acceptance, respect, dignity, employability, marriagiability, physical safety, enfranchisement, social mobility, access to social institutions, freedom, and autonomy hinge upon…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Apr 16, 2018

“White Men Behaving Sadly”

“Why are white men so sad? Well, in this film, they are sad because women are fucked up shrews and alcoholics who drag them down, give them heart attacks and, for god’s sake, try to talk to them and offer them food. They are also sad because they work for very little money and do…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Mar 3, 2018

“As Muslim women, we actually ask you not to wear the hijab in the name of interfaith solidarity”

“To us, the “hijab”is a symbol of an interpretation of Islam we reject that believes that women are a sexual distraction to men, who are weak, and thus must not be…

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Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Dec 20, 2017

“Unstickiness and Emotions in the Classroom”

“historically, the U.S. classroom privileges rationality over emotion and, as we bring students into our courses, we implicitly and sometimes explicitly ask them to learn how to “gain distance” in order to learn. But this move –one I’d taken for…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Dec 17, 2017

“There’s An Elephant In Harvey Weinstein’s Hotel Room”

“In Hollywood, where both racism and sexism are rampant, what can look like a sort of mitigated blessing ends up highlighting another insidious problem in (the societal microcosm that is) Hollywood: Black women do not often come up for…

Jess Brooks in Intersectional and Crossectional

Nov 1, 2017

“White Women Are Less Likely to Protect Black Women From Sexual Assault, Study Finds”

“the white college students seemed more likely to help another woman at risk of sexual assault if they thought she was white, but not as likely to intervene when they thought she was…