Category: Herstory/History
📺 “You Look Fine on TV…”How Media Representation Became a Distraction from Real Black Struggle
"You looked fine."
"I saw you on television."
But what if that wasn' [...]
📺 Television Is Not Liberation
(No matter how many awards, episodes, or characters say otherwise)
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The Myth of Racial Harmony (1980s–2000s): What We Were Told to Forget
🧨 The Dangerous Myth: “We Were All Getting Along”
From the 19 [...]
🧨 Myth-Busting the “Racial Harmony” Era: What We Weren’t Supposed to Say
Many believe the 1980s to early 2000s were a time of racial harmony in [...]
Celebrating Her Voice: Women’s Voices Belong to Women (video)
In this video we celebrate the strength and resilience of women who re [...]
Black Women Have Been Warning You: Fascism Has Always Seen Us as the First to Silence
Black women don’t need a textbook to recognize fascism on this planet. [...]
Believe in What Believes in You.
Why spend your precious energy trying to prove your humanity to system [...]
A Brief Timeline: Marital Rape Laws in the West
A tremendous amount of work went into giving spouses legal recourse if [...]
The Mothers of Modern Gynecology: Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey
The True Story Behind the Surgical Legacy Built on Black Women's Pain
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“The Forgive and Overlook Habit”: Why the Crisis of Child Predators Isn’t Going Anywhere
The crisis of child predators isn’t going anywhere. Unless the adults [...]