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Let’s Talk About Names: Ali, hooks, Lee Boggs
Sarah J. Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, MA where she studies how race and gender are constructed in national debates around...
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Bruno Mars Talks Names
Photo Credit: benzpics63, CC license. Via Colorlines, an interesting quote from Bruno Mars on why he stopped using his Puerto Rican father’s last name and took a stage name instead: Mars was born Peter...
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Let’s Talk About Names: Flavia
Trigger Warning: mass state violence, racism, anti-immigrant violence, suicide. N.B.: Dates in this post are written in day/month/year format. Flavia Dzodan is a South American writer and media maker...
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Let’s Talk About Names: Rawls
Kristin Rawls is a freelance writer based near Raleigh, North Carolina. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, Salon.com, AlterNet, Truthout, Bitch Magazine, Religion...
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Let’s Talk About Names: Minna
Minna Hong is a freelance editor/copywriter by night, and political blogger/fiction writer by later night. She blogs about race issues, women’s issues, queer issues, and whatever else is on her mind...
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Let’s Talk About Names: Nia
Nia King is a queer mixed-race multi-media producer with a passion for social justice. She is the creator of the podcast We Want the Airwaves: QPOC Artists on the Rise, the film The Craigslist...
View ArticleThe perils of funny feminism
I wrote for BlogHer about The Onion’s racist and misogynist joke about Rihanna and Chris Brown, and how some white feminists have defended The Onion (AGAIN!) against black women critics. I had some...
View ArticleWhen dudebros protest too much
I’ve been watching the saga following Tony Jones’ post about being “tired of being called a racist” with a mix of confusion, amusement, and utter lack of surprise. Another white dude complaining that...
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FYI: “Black” isn’t synonymous with “African American”
Photo Credit: MastaBaba creative commons A couple nights ago I made an offhand comment on Twitter about the conflation of “Black” with “African American” – the two aren’t synonymous – in response to a...
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Let’s Talk About Names: R. Leon
R. Leon is a queer ex-fundamentalist abuse survivor, writer, and journalist near DC. You can find them talking about feminism, abuse, fundamentalism, and their latest crushes on Twitter as...
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