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I’m willing to …
I’m willing to wager that the majority of eating disorders are experienced by folks with multiple marginalized identities. It’s likely that a lot of us aren’t able to talk about it because we’ve been...
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First of all, w…
First of all, we must define the construction and ‘technologies’ of race as well as those of gender and sexuality. Second, we must expose the role of race as a metalanguage by calling attention to its...
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The cultural in…
The cultural industries do have the power constantly to rework and reshape what they represent; and, by repetition and selection, to impose and implant such definitions of ourselves as fit more easily...
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At the same tim…
At the same time, the Carefree Black Girl is more than just image and representation, it is practice and embodied performance as well. As with many modes of visual production via social media such as...
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While few would…
While few would argue that feminism has been embraced by the Black community en masse—the increased representation in pop culture and perhaps overindexing of Black feminists online do not a feminist...
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Hannah Giorgis, on being into books while growing up Black
Books were (and still are) my way of understanding the world. When I felt like being a girl and being a nerd didn’t make sense in the same body, Hermione Granger was there to teach me better. When...
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Hannah Giorgis, on the lack of Black representation in children’s books
If we understand that children often form the basis of countless social skills through what they read — abilities to empathize, to imagine others’ complex inner worlds, and to problem solve — what are...
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Susan Sontag, on collective memory
What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds....
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Jewelle Gomen, on the representation of Black lesbians
It is the representation of black lesbian lives, not simply its analysis and deconstruction that has the most immediate, broad-based and long-lasting cultural and historical impact. Only by telling our...
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Rye Silverman, on representations in the media
When Christian, heterosexual, cisgender, white men worry about not seeing enough people who look like them in popular media, they call it a “loss of conventional values.” But when people of any...
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