With our father gone, Mom’s greatest fear was that she would be a white woman who didn’t know how to raise black kids; that we would be lost, adrift with no culture, no community. “Hold still.” “Mom, you’re hurting me!” “I am not. Hold still or your headwrap won’t look right.” “I don’t want to […]
I want white people to imagine what it’s like to feel suspicious for doing mundane things. Like walking. Some days, I don’t want to be black. It is a statement on our culture that some people—black and otherwise—will read that to mean that some days I want to be white. I don’t. It is not the physical black […]
This originally appeared on Alternet. Republished here with permission. Women of color have never had the privilege to solely focus on women’s issues. Feminism is much more than simply addressing the wage gap, climbing the corporate ladder, or even ensuring access to abortion services. Many times racism, classism, and sexism are so tightly enmeshed they’re […]
