The gun-toting man had a wide-shouldered build and was probably shorter than me once he took off his combat boots. Looking back, I probably could have taken him on in a fair fight. Lord knows, I’ve fought men bigger than him before.
Author: Idas
Journey to Me: How I Came Out To Myself and Embraced All of Me
I saw her sitting in the room during a morning break at a conference. Beautiful, with big hair framing her face. I was drawn to this woman. I had, before then, never been instantly drawn to anyone, especially a woman.
#TitleIXAt43: How We Talk About the Landmark Anti-Discrimination Legislation
As someone who was a student parent, I would have liked to see more conversations about the ways in which Title IX provides protection to student parents from the hostile environments they have to navigate to continue and complete their educations.
Let’s Get it Right With Black Women and Emergency Contraception
Lack of information and limited financial access to contraception among Black women is something that must be addressed. Black women, like all women, deserve access to the resources they can use to prevent pregnancy, plan for healthy families, and fully experience reproductive agency.
High Schools Need to Support Teen Mothers
Graduation season is upon us and teenagers nationwide are celebrating their academic achievements and…
White Christian Allies, Talk About Race From Your Pulpits
I don’t want to pray for Charleston. I can’t. I am an Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, yet, prayer doesn’t seem like enough. I need action. I need change.
Charleston’s History of Hellish Violence
Though only 21, Dylann Roof has an old soul — that of a 19th-century…
The Real Black Women of Spokane Deserve to Be Seen
When I first saw Rachel Dolezal in my hometown of Spokane, Washington, I wondered,…
I became a black woman in Spokane. But, Rachel Dolezal, I was a black girl first
Rachel Dolezal is, after this week, a symbol to many African Americans of the separation of blackness from black people; to me, she is an example of how American society simultaneously devalues the individuality of black women and us as a community to the point that the performance of black womanhood is preferred over the people.
How Anti-Abortion Laws Criminalize Black Women
On Saturday, 23-year-old Kenlissa Jones of Albany, Georgia was arrested and held without bond at the Dougherty County jail on charges of “malice murder” and “possession of a dangerous drug” for self-inducing her own abortion.