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How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women
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(Feminism)
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... by the very people it most directly effects: Black women.
So I interviewed 30 Black women from various cities in South Africa and the mid-Atlantic U.S. and asked them about Baartman. Would her image ...
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Created on 20 August 2021
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Reclaiming The Lens: 10 Women Filmmakers Spearheading The New Wave in Black Cinema
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(Movies)
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... for Mudbound, a dramatic period piece exploring heightened racial tensions in the deep south. The critically-acclaimed film is streaming now on Netflix.
3. Tourmaline
Tourmaline’s filmmaking career ...
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Created on 22 April 2021
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COVID-19 Has Made Access To Reproductive Healthcare Evasive, As If Getting An Abortion Wasn't Already Hard Enough in Americ
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(Living)
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... bans that have been adopted by nearly half the country have continued to spread. South Carolina is the latest state to pass such a bill, called the “South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion ...
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Created on 23 February 2021
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Marlene Van Niekerk’s "Agaat" Reminds Us Of The Ever-Evolving Postcolonial World We Live I
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(Books)
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Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat is a beautiful, complicated epic of agrarian life in South Africa from 1948 onward, and it explores the evolution of a relationship between two women who take care of one ...
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Created on 11 February 2021
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Culture Critics Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham Commemorate This Moment in Time With Their New Book Black Futures
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(Books)
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... American painter Toyin Ojih Odutola, screen shots from video game designer Momo Pixel, photography by South African LGBTQIA activist Zanele Muholi, and many other works. “I think that there’s this notion ...
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Created on 01 December 2020
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Here's How Georgia's Stacey Abrams Saved America: Exclusive BUST Intervi
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(Feminism)
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... rage. Rage was new for me.
Eloquent rage, as [author] Brittney Cooper says.
Exactly. My way to speak my rage aloud was to create Fair Fight, Fair Count, and a lesser-known group called the Southern ...
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Created on 05 November 2020
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Alarming Stats Reveal Increasing Murder Rates of Women and Girls in Guatemala During COVID
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(Feminism)
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... is not the first femicide protest this year. Countries like South Africa, Chile and Turkey are taking a stand against increasing femicide rates. In fact, the UN reported earlier this year that COVID quarantine ...
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Created on 12 October 2020
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Amy Coney Barrett Is A Threat To Civil Rights
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(Blog)
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... the LGBTQ community is so great; it earned them a "Hate Group" designation from the Southern Poverty Law Center."
Particularly attention-grabbing, Barrett has been accused of being "openly and firmly" ...
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Created on 30 September 2020
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Mother Nature Disagrees: Confederate Statue Brought Down By Hurricane Laura
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(Living)
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... South's Defenders monument, which stood on the grounds of a courthouse in Lake Charles, collapsed during Hurricane Laura.
The Confederate statue was made in 1915 during the Jim Crow era as part of a wave ...
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Created on 28 August 2020
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The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
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(Feminism)
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... South
Arkansas
Arkansas was a bit ahead of the curve when it came to suffrage, being twelfth of the first dozen states to ratify it, which they did on July 28, 1919. But the right to suffrage didn’t ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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Hey 19: The Wild True Story Of America's First Women-Led Terrorist Grou
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(General)
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... wouldn’t be the group’s only bombing. Over the course of only two years, M19 bombed several locations, including an FBI office, the South African consulate in New York, and Washington D.C.’s Fort McNair ...
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Created on 30 July 2020
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Maisie Richardson-Sellers On "Kissing Booth 2" And Representation On And Off-Screen: BUST Interview ...
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(Movies)
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... queer people of color, including The Triangle Project in Capetown, South Africa—a non-profit human rights organization that offers services to LGBTQ+ communities like legal support, medical care, counseling, ...
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Created on 27 July 2020
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Morgan Jerkins Explores and Reclaims Her Roots In "Wandering In Strange Lands
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(Books)
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... had chosen to forget—“can be found in people you have yet to encounter and places where you have not yet traveled.” So she heads to Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana, where she’s met with a shock. ...
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Created on 20 July 2020
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Mississippi Will Remove State Flag Bearing Confederate Symbol
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(Living)
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... state flag.
In 2001, two-thirds of voters decided in a ballot measure to keep the flag flying as is, with many white voters arguing the Confederate emblem was a ‘symbol of pride for their Southern heritage.’ ...
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Created on 29 June 2020
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Let's Stop Naming American Schools After Confederate
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(Living)
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... of notable, yet insidious, figures from history like Christopher Columbus. Education Week also found that 22 schools in the South are named after U.S. senators who opposed school integration in the time ...
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Created on 24 June 2020
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12 Books By Black Women Authors To Add To Your To-Read List
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(Books)
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... goes beyond its pages. Readers follow a young woman named Thandi through childhood and young adulthood, jumping back and forth across time. Thandi, like Clemmons, is the daughter of a mixed race South ...
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Created on 12 June 2020
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Ditch Your White Savior Complex: 10 More Documentaries To Watch About Racism Instead Of “The Help”
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(Movies)
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... overlooked, emphasizes the struggle against Jim Crow laws in the south and highlights the similarities with the protests today. Freedom Riders is available on PBS.
Dark Girls (Amazon)
Directors ...
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Created on 10 June 2020
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14 Black Women-Owned Beauty and Wellness Brands to Support Right Now (And Always)
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(Style)
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... #greenbeauty #diy #madeinla #bathandbody #indiebeauty #glowup #organicbeauty #beautywellness #buildyourown #bodyscrubs #naturalbeauty #farmtoface #beautycommunity #plantbasedbeauty #dafunction19 #southcentralla ...
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Created on 03 June 2020
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5 Feminist Collectives for Women of Color Mobilizing on the ’Gram
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(Feminism)
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... politicizes, and talks back. AAFC encompasses the ever-evolving identities of East, Southeast, South Asian, Pacific Islander, multi-ethnic, and diasporic Asian feminism. While boosting visibility for Asian ...
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Created on 04 May 2020
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Dance The Night Away With This Disco Hair DIY
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(Style)
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... Fringe Salon used Bantu knots to create this particular style. Originating centuries ago in southern Africa, Bantu knots are styled by twisting individual sections of hair into small, coiled buns, which ...
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Created on 07 February 2020
