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When Our Strategies For Healing Are Harmful To Our Communities: A Note to...
by Michal “MJ” Jones We have all learned strategies to survive under oppression, but oftentimes those same tools continue cycles of harm. As a masculine of center non-binary Black person in QTPOC...
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Why Non-Black People of Color Need To Stop Blaming Black People for Their...
by Mia McKenzie This morning on Twitter, Cate Young and I shared some thoughts on #OscarsSoWhite and the unfortunate ways that too many non-black people of color approach issues of media...
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How Islamophobia Impacts Women of Color In Europe
by Yasmin Begum Anti-Muslim violence is rising across the world at an alarming rate. Following the violent attacks in Paris, the firebombing in Germany, and the high population of Muslims who are...
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Why Our Think Pieces About Peter Liang Failed to Reach Our Parents
by Lucy Lee Thousands of Chinese Americans appeared in the national media spotlight last month when they protested the conviction of Chinese-American NYPD officer Peter Liang. He was charged with...
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The Solidarity Struggle: “Why Are You Being So Divisive?”
by Joamette Gil and Mia McKenzie In BGD’s newest collection, “The Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail At Showing Up For Each Other In the Fight For Freedom,” writers, activists...
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How Non-Indigenous Activists Can Support Indigenous People
by Kai Minosh [Indigenous and Black activists gathered together at #NoDAPL site. Photo by Melinda Lee.]At any given time, activists in North America are working on an unfathomable number of ways to...
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(Re)building the Links Between Native Women and Women of Color
by Kai Minosh First published in 1981 and then in second edition in 1983, the book This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color was recognized from the very beginning as a...
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How #NoDAPL Could Help Connect Our Struggles
by Kelly Hayes [Image description: Native American Water Protectors and Black activists stand together. Photo by Desiree Kane]Native people around the country, as well as many who are not Native,...
View ArticleOn Adele, Beyoncé & Solidarity
by Mia McKenzie I’m a big Adele fan. I have been for years. I own all of Adele’s albums and I know the words to all of her songs. If you see me walking with earbuds in, there’s a pretty good chance...
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#FemCrowdFund Is An Intersectional Approach To Resisting Trump
by J. Skyler Robinson There is a hard truth that mainstream feminism consistently fails to rectify: it has historically failed a significant number of women. Exit polls from the 2016 US presidential...
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