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Fucking Tired: Fixing “The Bachelor’s” Racism Isn’t Rachel Lindsay’s Job

Rachel Lindsay, a Black woman with long, dark hair, smiles. She wears a dress and a white fur coat and sits on a rooftop.
by Rachel Charlene Lewis
February 17, 2021 at 12:01pm
Rachel Lindsay has become the built-in key to solving the empire’s ongoing problems with racism.
Fantastic Frankey, a brown-skinned Black woman with curly hair, smiles at the camera with red lipstick

Meet Fantastic Frankey, the YouTuber Changing Nerdom from Inside Out

by Evette Dionne
February 2, 2021 at 11:23am
That’s what the Fanboy Fighter moniker is: fighting men who are protecting the genre. Read more »
A white woman and a Black man walk together into a party. Both are dressed up in Regency-era clothing.

Royal Representation: On the Strange Racial Politics of “Bridgerton”

by Aditi Natasha Kini
January 14, 2021 at 12:09pm
In essence, all these shows do is show people of color being terrible white people. Read more »
collage cutout of a woman’s shape in braids and a straw hat holding orange flowers, while an image of a Black woman is peeking from inside of the cutout

White and Whimsical: The Reformation of Fashion’s History

by Nandi Howard
December 21, 2020 at 10:59am
Many of us have accepted that whiteness and cultural appropriation have long dominated fashion, but these issues have tangible roots that deserve interrogation. Read more »
A Black woman with long curly hair wears a light blue long sleeved dress and stands in a field.

Cultivating Freedom: This Year, Cottagecore Exploded—But Excluded Black Women

by Yannise Jean
December 21, 2020 at 10:33am
Cottagecore is about freedom rather than loneliness. Read more »
a screen print of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman with her hands on her hips, collaged in a Lady of Guadalupe style surrounded by cutouts of flowers and a glowing outline, on top of an image of cells in a rainbow gradient.

The Cautious Gene: Genetic Testing Inherits a Legacy of Distrust

by Marissa Evans
December 17, 2020 at 10:28am
The complexity of working with and understanding DNA is steeped in institutional racism and the historical mistreatment of people of color by the medical community. Read more »
Gal Gadot wears a glittering headpiece during the Met Gala.

Whiteness Reigns: Our Cultural Obsession with Cleopatra

by Deena ElGenaidi
December 15, 2020 at 11:03am
Gal Gadot isn’t the first white woman to be cast as Cleopatra. Read more »
Two young women sit next to each other while dressed for tennis. One is a Black girl with an afro and dark skin, and the other is pale with red hair.

The Missed “Magical Negro” Trope in “The Queen’s Gambit”

by Gloria Oladipo
November 25, 2020 at 2:46pm
We have to do better. Read more »
Tranae Moran, a thin Black person with a faded hair cut, is captured in a facial surveillance camera that includes personal information

Undetectable: “Coded Bias” Challenges the Racism of Facial-Recognition Software

by Bedatri D. Choudhury
November 24, 2020 at 10:00am
Artificial intelligence is a danger to our civil rights when it replicates historical qualities of any real-life bias. Read more »
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

White Rage, White Guilt: How Long Do We Wait for White Women to Learn?

by Katherine Morgan
November 20, 2020 at 12:31pm
I believe that the intentions were good, but the worst thing about good intentions is that sometimes the energy can be misplaced. Read more »
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a “Keep America Great” Campaign Rally. Signs in the back read “Latinos for Trump.”

There’s No Such Thing as the “Latino Vote”

by Tina Vasquez
November 9, 2020 at 1:55pm
Latinos “flocked to the polls” in numbers that far exceeded what experts expected. Read more »

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Where My Girls At: Meet Two of Ferguson's Black Queer Activists

by Erica Cardwell
April 27, 2015 at 3:26pm
Amid national discussions of police brutality and systemic racism, Black women have been the loudest and most consistent voices demanding change. Read more »

Saying Goodbye to Maria and the End of a Sesame Street Era

by Angely Mercado
August 13, 2015 at 5:52pm
Growing up, Sesame Street's Maria was one of the best Latina role models I had. Read more »

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

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
by Joshunda Sanders
Spring 2012 • Frontier
The guns Black women carry are symbols of their abilities to be both frontierwomen and nurturing warrior mothers birthing a new generation of revolutionaries. Read more »

A Look at How Media Writes Women of Color

by Victoria Law
November 17, 2014 at 5:07pm
Nearly every Saturday morning, feminists of color hold Twitter discussions taking a deeper look at issues, such as gender violence. It’s the... Read more »