Race & Racism 10/23

Sistah Vegan Blog:
A Critical Race Feminist's Journey Through the 'Ethical Foodscape'...and Beyond

Dec 22, 2014

Sistah Vegan on 'Black Women's Lives Matter' : Free Marissa Alexander NOW!

Over the past week, I have directed much of my social justice work, within the Black Women’s Lives Matter movement, towards Marissa...

Dec 18, 2014

Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks t

(TRIGGER WARNING FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT) So, in continuation of my post about the Black Feminist Queer praxis that the Black...

Dec 17, 2014

Self Care, Black Lives Matter, and the Usual Self-Proclaimed White Racist(Sigh)

And more info about the Sistah Vegan Conference for April 2015 can be found here. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...

Dec 12, 2014

Open Letter to the Perpetrators of Thug Kitchen | VINE Sanctuary Blog

http://blog.bravebirds.org/archives/2114 From the brilliant pattrice jones of Vine sanctuary! Bryant Terry and I are mentioned. Share...

Dec 11, 2014

REDUX: Reflections on Using the Word "Nigger" and Friendships Embedded with Racial Ignoran

This seems especially timely now after Ferguson and Eric Garner when resistance to post-racial” Amerikka has been forced into the...

Dec 8, 2014

Dear [Kind of Racist] Dartmouth College White People from the 1990s: Black Lives Matter, So Where Ar

Am thinking about the plethora of outspoken racist white people, as well as ‘I’ll just be silent about it” ‘liberal’ white people I...

Nov 30, 2014

From Food First: "Tangled Roots and Bitter Fruit: What Ferguson can teach the food movement&quo

This past week, I met with ED of Oakland’s Food First, Eric Holt-Gimenez, PhD. I would like to share this article below by Eric, that was...

Nov 5, 2014

[Video]: "'Nigger' Hurts, and Never Heals": Scars, A Black Lesbian Experience in

Below is a video from me reading the first chapter from my new book Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England. I also...

Nov 2, 2014

Ebola is Not a Funny Halloween Trick

This is a quick post. The other evening, my kids went out with their costumes for Halloween in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. I took the...

Oct 29, 2014

Guest Post by Liz Ross: Why I Protested Thug Kitchen

Since I gave a talk last week at Middlebury College on thug kitchen controversy, I thought this guest post by Liz Ross, on Hana Low’s...