

Dear Black Girl....
1. You must let the pain visit. 2. You must allow it teach you 3. You must not allow it overstay. (Three routes to healing) - Ijeoma...


10 Things To Know This Week
Photo: Inquiring Minds - Girls and STEM -Here, children take part in a science class, Washington, March 1942 #CosbyWatch: Bill Cosby's...

When the Silence Shatters: Post-Black Women's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Reflections f
“The fact that we are here and that [we] speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences...


With Harp and Sword: Trauma, Survivorship, and Reproductive Health
“I have been in sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots, then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp...


Not Having It: Nate Parker and the False Choice for Black Women
As college students head back to school, the media and social media are abuzz with daily news about filmmaker Nate Parker and his college...

Post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The Sacred-Political Lives of Black Women Survivors of Rap
Photo Credit: Maybelline McCoy “we need a god who bleeds now a god whose wounds are not some small male vengeance some pitiful concession...

Sexual Abuse and Power: Disabled Black Girls' Positions In the World
“And she looks clean” This is what was said to me by a male teacher who thought I was attractive. I was 13 years old, in special...