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...
The reason that we don't hear more about Black serial killers is not because they don't exist. Rather, it's because their victims are rarely newsworthy enough t...
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 ...
There is real damage being done to Black people on Facebook, and removing eight white supremacist groups while still allowing this racist abuse to go on is noth...
I think of trans-generational traumas, and how they shape us, and I wonder whether the pang that I sometimes feel in my gut connects me with the agony of my for...
The white people who stay silent in the face of white terrorism consider themselves to be “non-racist.” They're wrong.
Last week, Tina Fey and Lady Gaga offend...
Far too many people see fat bodies being desired as an impossibility, and see fat people as wholly unworthy of physical intimacy.
At least two women and one m...
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.
