Tag Archives: Women of Color
Pilot for new Black drug wives reality show in production
TweetDeep sigh. I’ve written before about my disdain for reality television. Particularly offensive is reality television that portrays grown women as if they are petty, violent, and gossipy high school girls. Basketball Wives on VH1 is damaging to the psyche of young women in that it promotes wealth over values and the superficial over substance. [...]
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Victims of eugenic sterilization in NC to be compensated
TweetFrom 1929 to 1974 about 7,600 (and possibly more) people were sterilized without their consent because they were assessed by state social workers to be “feeble-minded,” having a “mental disease” or suffering from epilepsy. Many of those that were forcibly sterilized were poor, black women deemed unfit to be parents. From NPR: People as young as [...]
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The Feministing Five: Annie Fukushima
Tweet Annie Fukushima is a long time activist and academic. She’s been working around the issue of human trafficking and she’s a huge believer in the power of praxis– the combination of action and theory (especially interesting in light of this week’s post on the topic!). A PhD student at Cal Berkeley in the Ethnic [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Sister Citizen
TweetWe at Feministing have long been fans of Melissa Harris-Perry who has become a voice for young women in politics and specifically for young women of color who were tired of feeling invisible in political conversations. Her political analysis is on point, but she is also unconventionally honest, which sometimes makes her controversial. And she is not [...]
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Beyonce enters the women’s studies classroom