I’ve begun work on a new website, Maaternal.com. I think it’s about time more people knew that afrocentric and Panafrican maternal feminists and Africana womanists exist. What gave me the inspiration to actually buy a domain and give this some focus is that most of the writing around it is…
A prerequisite of living while Black in this country is learning to mourn and move on. Another is concluding there is no amount of butchering, murder or elimination of Black life that will ever make America stop guzzling the syrupy poison of white supremacy. Nor is there any amount of…
The humans behind the headlines: I have a friend in South Carolina who has anxiety about going grocery shopping because of the possibility of a copycat mass shooter. Churches are bringing back the armed and/or martial artist usher. Nothing really changed. The mass shooter of today is just the angry…
Forced breeding = slavery. The information leaked to POLITICO on May the 2nd with regards to the overturning of Roe V Wade was not the opening salvo of the war on everyone who has/had a uterus, but rather the death knell of an era in which the war had remained…
Indeed, Patterson himself disavows this application of social death to Black people post-emancipation and states his reasons for doing so, collectively referencing the various ways in which Black people have ostensibly been folded into civil society. But this itself invokes a conflation between the distilled social death and an analysis…
Hey lawyers! In light of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag being hijacked by capitalists, is there a way to prevent such a thing happening in the future? Can the community affected or those who are supposed to benefit, or the internet itself sue for copyright or trademark?
