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Black Girls Hunger for Heroes, Too: A Black Feminist Conversation on Fantasy Fiction for Teens

by Zetta Elliott
December 17, 2013 at 3:19pm

What happens when two great black women fiction writers get together to talk about race in young adult literature? That's exactly what happens in the conversation below, where  Zetta Elliott (below left), a black feminist writer of poetry, plays, essays, novels, and stories for children, and award-winning Haitian-American speculative fiction writer Ibi Aanu...

What I Learned About Gender and Power from Sailor Moon

by Soleil Ho
May 31, 2013 at 1:43pm

My life began in 1995 — the year I turned eight and became a divorced kid. 

 
an illustration of a Black woman with long, flowing, blonde hair

All Hail the Queen?: What Do Our Perceptions of Beyoncé's Feminism Say about us?

by Tamara Winfrey Harris
May 20, 2013 at 10:35am

The policing of feminist cred is the real moral contradiction.
Game Changer Illustration by Jasmine Silver.

Game Changer: Why Gaming Culture Allows Abuse... and How We Can Stop It

by Katherine Cross
November 21, 2012 at 1:21pm

You're a Bolshevik feminist jewess that hates white people… and you expect to be taken seriously when you're “critique-ing” video games? Fucking ovendodger. 

Like water through a bursting dam, the deluge came first in pinprick spouts and then rushed through in a pitiless torrent. E-mails, tweets, and YouTube comments attacked feminist...

No Disrespect: Black women and the burden of respectability

by Tamara Winfrey Harris
May 22, 2012 at 12:22pm

In February 2012, PBS host Tavis Smiley interviewed Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer about their Oscar nominations for their roles as Aibileen and Minny, Jim Crow–era domestic workers in The Help. “I'm pulling for both of you to win on Academy Award night,” Smiley ventured. “But there's something that sticks in my craw about celebrating Hattie McDaniel so many years ago for...
Pam Grier plays Coffy, a Black woman with an afro who's sitting on the floor and pointing a gun at an intruder, in the movie Coffy

Target Market: Black Women with Guns: Frontier Feminists or Insurrectionists?

by Joshunda Sanders
February 14, 2012 at 3:21pm

The guns Black women carry are symbols of their abilities to be both frontierwomen and nurturing warrior mothers birthing a new generation of revolutionaries.

Douchebag Decree: Anti-Choice Hidden Camera Edition

by Kjerstin Johnson
February 10, 2011 at 3:33pm

Tool-in-pimp's-clothing James O'Keefe's laughable costume and douchebag seduction methods have mostly discredited his conservative hidden-camera hijinks. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Lila Rose, a 22-year-old whose organization, Live Action: a “new media movement for life,” is using hidden cameras to discredit Planned Parenthood and garnering mainstream and...

House Proud : The troubling rise of stay-at-home daughters

November 4, 2010 at 1:28pm

“Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope 
of their father. As long as they’re under the authority of their fathers, fathers have the ability to nullify or not the oaths and the vows. Daughters can’t just go out 
independently and say, ‘I’m going to marry whoever I want.’ No. The father has 
the ability to say,...
Elizabeth Gilbert, a white woman wearing a navy blue jumpsuit, leans forward and holds hand with and Oprah Winfrey, a Black woman wearing a gray cardigan and jeans

Eat, Pray, Spend: Priv-Lit and the New, Enlightened American Dream

by Joshunda Sanders
May 14, 2010 at 12:53pm

Even as reports on joblessness, economic recovery, and home foreclosures suggest that no one is immune to risk during this recession, the popularity of women’s wellness media has persisted and, indeed, grown stronger. 

Sojourner Truth, Unveiled

by Deesha Philyaw
April 29, 2009 at 2:58pm

The leaders of the [women's suffrage] movement trembled on seeing a tall, gaunt black woman in a gray dress and white turban, surmounted with an uncouth sunbonnet, march deliberately into the church, walk with the air of a queen up the aisle, and take her seat upon the pulpit steps. A buzz of disapprobation was heard all over the house, and there fell on the listening ear, 'An...

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