It is something all children of Oya, especially if you are intersex, nonbinary, or otherwise variable in gender, have to cope with if we survive long enough. Since there aren’t many elders left to discuss these things in English out in public, and more people are Vodun or at least…
In 2013 Dr. Shawn Smolen-Morton presents “The Magic Negro in Science Fiction Film: District 9 and the Alien Uncle Tom” during a Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium. It articulates a lot of what is disturbing to me about the Finn character in Star Wars, the Force Awakens. Gender-wise, the Rey…
Baltimore seems to be the great Black dream: the mayor is Black, the Chief of Police is Black and about half the police force (including some of those charged with Freddie Gray’s death) are Black. All this under a twice-elected Black President. Yet things are clearly going south. What’s going…
Before I begin, I’d like to give due credit to Diva for teaching me most of this. Without her, I’d still be wondering why men here assumed I was a fool and then were shocked when it became clear that I wasn’t. This isn’t about pretending you are something that…
It was 1934, and William Fullwood, a young baseball player in the Negro Leagues, wanted nothing more than to marry Williemae, a “God-fearing, God-loving” woman who taught in a one-room school in Georgia.She initially spurned him because of their three-year age difference, but eight children, 23 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren…
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