December 2011
115 posts
You may think....
You may think the WOC Survival Kit is for you.
And it is—Oh Yes!—it is.
But every time we walk into the Kit, we, too, find the strength to carry on.
Womyn of color are so beautiful.
Thank you for your support this year, in years past and in the future! Have a lovely and safe New Year!!!!
~The WOC Survival Kit
ps. Keep the submissions coming!
"No Black woman should apologize for being...
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Bruised but defiant: Mona Eltahawy on her assault... →
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When I'm Around Beautiful Men
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Tears, Gratitude and Anger Mark the 1,000th... →
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“But it needs to be understood from the beginning that the term ‘matriarch’ would...”
– Suzanne Lebsock, “Free Women of Color,” in The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town (via femmenoire)
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On Being Hard Femme #1 →
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People of Color Organize: Feminist Fridays Starts... →
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Starting this Friday, People Of Color Organize! features a new post series on gender, feminism and much more.
And the series starts out big with none other than The F Word’s Meghan Murphy. Murphy’s writings have covered a variety of issues, from pornography to indigenous women’s…
New Model Minority: So During my Internet... →
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I read E. Francis White’s “Dark Continents of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability”.
She does an AWESOME job of discussing how Black nationalists helped us to think about White racism. On the other side of the coin she discusses the limitations of Black Nationalist…
