women of color

If 93% of the Academy is White, but as of 2014, only 62% of Americans were White, and art is supposed to imitate life...

My journey to acknowledging my guilt and privilege while embracing my feminist view on the world has been a slow, winding trip — with no end in sight.

Given white feminists' continuous attempts at erasing, silencing, and co-opting people of color and their struggles, I can assure you that the gains people of color, and particularly women of color, have achieved up to today have been made in spite of white feminism, not because of it.

Creating a beautiful space for amazing women.

I live my life at the intersections of blackness and womanhood, which means my presence is doubly erased and my words often fall on deaf ears. Even in spaces created to challenge power structures that disempower black women, we often find ourselves seemingly shouting our grievances into the ether.

Black women are insisting that our stories, too, become part of the national conversation around policing and safety.

Black women are insisting that our stories, too, become part of the national conversation around policing and safety.

Though the very foundation of American policing is rotten with colonialism and anti-Black racism, there are remedies that we can fight for today.