Part Two of The Drinking Gourd’s Afrofuturism roundtable series.
News Posted in Echoing Ida
Wake Up Female Protagonists: COVID-19
Tune in heroines, wake up femme and female protagonists. We need you.
TikTok Teens are Making Fake Phone Call Videos to Escape Sketchy Ubers
Users have created an entire genre of videos designed to scare away would-be harassers and help vulnerable people navigate dodgy situations.
Muslim Teens Love Surveillance Memes That Give Them a Subversive Way to Cope
“The message is, ‘I know you’re watching me.'”
When People Who Harm Don’t Consent to Transformative Justice
“Transformative justice is not a cage for us to die in.”
Email scammers are taking advantage of our coronavirus fears
People will always try to capitalize on the fear and confusion of others, and the coronavirus panic is no exception.
For Black People, Roe Is Imperfect. We Still Need the Supreme Court to Protect It
When we don’t tell our stories, it allows others to write the narrative for us—or worse, exclude us entirely from it.
Mike Bloomberg’s defense of Muslim surveillance after 9/11 is willfully ignorant
“The impacts of surveillance go beyond lawsuits or those specific moments in time.”
Separate Cinema Archives: A Black Film Time Machine
“Taken separately, many of these posters give viewers snapshots of a particular time, but when gathered together, patterns and stereotypes emerge, as well as contrasts in how certain characters are depicted in different markets.”
This Abortion Rights Advocate Fought for Women of Color When No One Else Would
Dorothy Brown’s outspokenness made enemies in Tennessee’s government. But it also changed lives.