Black women, girls, gender non conforming people and femme folk need options beyond the police when dealing with gender-based violence.
This essay contain...
Adelaide's fight feels like a reflection of the stories of countless Black womxn, both known and unknown to me.
This essay contains spoilers for “Us”
Lu...
Captain Marvel accurately depicts the reality of what being talked at by men is like.
This essay contains spoilers for "Captain Marvel"
“Captain Marvel”...
Black people are allowed to be honest about our struggle with natural hair.
Twitter is an interesting place. There are always arguments and debates happenin...
The latest episode is completely honest about how complicated sexual assault cases are and how women are constantly forced to choose between ourselves, our car...
In attempts to celebrate one woman's work, reports disregarded the work of another.
In 2013, Cy Lauz soft launched Chrysalis, a lingerie line catering excl...
Those of us who have spent years reading, writing, and hearing stories about R. Kelly’s violence know that this has been a long, long road marked by Black womxn’s activism....
We were right in our willingness to believe Jussie's initial account, given the propensity of white violence and the dystopian reality QTBIPOC live in.
This...
Harvey has shown us time and again his investment in Black capitalism, in catering to the white gaze, and his disdain for Black women
Yesterday, a clip from St...
As part of our #BodyPositivityInColor campaign and in recognition of Black History Month, Sherronda J. Brown writes about the larger implications of society’s p...
To launch our #BodyPositivityInColor campaign, Sherronda J. Brown discusses why the mainstream movement needs an intervention and how decolonizing our ideas abo...
The reason we don't hear more about Black serial killers is not because they don't exist. It's because their victims are rarely newsworthy enough to get the sam...
We have to remember that this cultural moment is about far more than the despicable things R. Kelly has done, and we cannot allow others to use him or anyone el...
Bringing a child into the world is also a very legitimate thing to be afraid of and it's not okay to gaslight those who acknowledge to having that fear.
The es...
All the oppressive things we already have to deal with in our material world only become amplified in the virtual world.
I quit, y'all. I put in a solid few y...
The “Black man's image” is not, never has been, and never will be more important than the safety of Black women.
This essay contains discussion of sexual viol...
We want to share with you a list of other independent creators on Patreon doing important work that aligns with our own mission.
Over the last few months, the ...
The whorephobia among incels is rooted in their disdain for the autonomy involved in women choosing to do sex work and their anxiety about women earning money f...
Jones used white liberalism and performative allyship to target mostly poor Black folks, seduce them into his abusive cult, take their money, and orchestrate th...
They may be less prominent than characters in other TV shows, but these queer and trans characters should be acknowledged and critiqued when necessary.
This ye...
Dating as asexual is hard because it is incredibly difficult for allosexual people to understand a sexual identity that does not center sex.
I marathon-watched...
Fascism isn’t on the way. It’s already here.
“They have something to say to every politician who has fed his constituents with the stale bread of hatred an...
Commitment to diversity and to examining what it looks like to have more Black people at cons isn’t just a numbers game.
This weekend, GeekGirlCon will conven...
“Women” almost always means white women, and rarely ever includes Black women.
First off, a question: bitch what the fuck?
Anyone who still uses this q...
I thought I didn't like sex, but really, I just didn't like feeling like shit afterwards.
This essay discusses coercive and violating forms of sex in detail.
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I want so much more than seemingly unrelenting reminders of how anti-Black this world is.
As a horror aficionado, I am constantly caught between appreciation f...
Religion is not infallible, and it continually creates space for its leaders to abuse the power that religious interpretations unquestioningly afford them.
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The way that men in tennis treat Serena Williams is a phenomenon that can never be separated from her gender or from her Blackness.
“My response to racism is a...
White people are always worried about the wrong things and it shows up both in what they choose to protest and how they choose to go about it.
White people are...
Too much or too little, makeup has long been a wonderful and difficult facet of our lives.
If you know a femme-presenting person who wears makeup, it has likel...
Not a single person who has ever fat-shamed me has even bothered to asked me if I want to be thin. I don't.
I hate the gym. It's a traumatic space for me. Bein...
It is clear that the cultures of Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples are incredibly significant because of how much white people fear them.
Throughout history...
When engaging in conversations about campus assault awareness, we cannot limit it to higher education and college campuses.
TW/CW: This essay contains extensi...
It is time for us to rebuild Black Wall Street.
This summer marks ninety seven years since Black Wall Street was destroyed. Greenwood was a community in su...
White feminists identify so strongly with The Handmaid’s Tale because it is a show about white women in slavery.
Reproductive rights is a subject that is c...
The Harts were hideous monstrosities of unbounded proportions.
Years of reported child abuse claims, including physical harm and starvation, recently cu...
The “Black Panther” narrative allows Black women to be both angry and tender, both strong and vulnerable, both independent and interdependent on each other and ...
The story of Sarah Winchester and her unfinished mansion is one that would not exist without the violence of white colonialism.
In San Jose, there stands an ex...
“Proud Mary” is definitely not perfect, but it damn sure deserves better than it's been given.
Don't believe anyone who fixes their lips, or their fingers,...
Stop believing what other people have to say about Black women, and start believing what Black women have to say about ourselves.
This week, rumors about actor...
I wish that my name, and the rest of my existence, was untouched by white colonialism.
My name has nine letters and three syllables, and is an amalgamation of ...
Violence is so normalized that we often don't even recognize sexual abuses in the moment.
I recently realized that sex is unhealthy for me. Not sex in the...
As sexist and misogynistic as it is heteronormative, this inordinate value placed on romance and marriage is consistently used to devalue single and unmarried w...
Right now is the perfect time to shine a spotlight on the forgotten crimes perpetrated in Hollywood, and Patricia Douglas deserves to be avenged.
Ten years...
Black women's bodies are hyper-sexualized and we need to make sure the language around body positivity doesn't reinforce racist and sexist fetishization.
Demet...
Incels' misogyny goes beyond everyday sexism.
TW: This essay contains discussion of sexual violence and gendered violence against women. It also contains passa...
Sexual predators prey on the powerless in order to exert control, and use sex as a means to do so because the connections between sex and power are palpable. We...
The labor that Black women contribute to the world and to movements for Black liberation is often condensed to supporting roles, or erased altogether.
NPR just...
Jemele Hill had every right to express her disdain for Trump.
ESPN has apparently accepted Jemele Hill’s apology — an apology she was strong-armed into giving ...
We are not allowed to hold someone emotionally hostage until they give us what we want, forcing them to swallow their own feelings, desires, and needs in order ...
Sherronda J. Brown is a native North Carolinian with an academic background in Media Studies, Women’s & Gender Studies, and African American & African Diaspora Studies. She is passionate about social justice, black feminisms, and zombies.
