I woke up at 5 am on November 9th to the news that Donald J. Trump had indeed been elected president of the United States; having gone to bed a mere four hours earlier, I had been holding out hope that what had appeared inevitable at 1 am would not come to pass. When I …
Yesterday, a Maine-based reader informed me that a friend had woken up to a flyer from the KKK in her driveway and was aghast. I can’t say that I would blame her; if I found a flyer from the KKK in my alley, I too would be pretty damn bothered. Between the time I received …
“The reality is that African-American women face discrimination through both their race and gender. Spheres of social identities—from race to gender to sexuality to disability—operate on multiple levels, creating multidimensional experiences.” — Kimberlé Crenshaw When I first started writing about racism back in 2003, barely anyone wanted to touch what I was selling except other …