Eloghosa Osunde contemplates the role of marginalized artists in online activism.
racism
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Having the Wrong Conversations About Hate Activity
A personal essay about the ways in which a terrified mother tried — and failed — to be a walking-talking public service announcement.
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Having the Wrong Conversations about Hate Activity
How a terrified mother tried — and failed — to be a walking-talking public service announcement.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Having the Wrong Conversations about Hate Activity
How a terrified mother tried — and failed — to be a walking-talking public service announcement.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Africans Who Suffer in a Deportation Purgatory
Under the Trump administration, African immigrants are experiencing increasing deportations, though these deportees receive less media attention than deportees from Mexico and Central America.
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White Artists Need to Start Addressing White Supremacy in Their Work
An essay in which author and academic Angela Pelster-Wiebe considers the best ways for white authors and artists to quit side-stepping the subjects of deeply rooted structural racism and their own privilege, and help dismantle white supremacy with their work.
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Pathologizing Black Communities: Chicago Violence Receives the Wrong Attention
Homicide rates in Chicago’s black communities receive a disproportionate amount of media attention in an ongoing tendency to sensationalize and pathologize their residents.
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Brown Girl with Bubble Gum
As a mixed-race kid with free-form hair, Lisa Rosenberg believed learning to blow bubblegum bubbles would be her ticket to an idealized (white) American girlhood.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Brown Girl with Bubblegum
As a mixed-race kid with free-form hair, Lisa Rosenberg believed learning to blow bubblegum bubbles would be her ticket to an idealized (white) American girlhood.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Traveling While Black
An excellent mini-anthology curated and edited by This Will Be My Undoing author Morgan Jerkins. In her introduction, Jerkins writes about her own experiences of having TSA rifle through the Marley twists atop her head while whitesplaining how to care for her hair. Included are pieces by Jamilah Lemieux on the pleasures and pains of […]