Finally, the hip-hop culture of the late 20th century produced a new school of activist intellectuals, such as Robin D.G. Kelley and Melissa Harris-Lacewell. These generations of Black Radicals are connected by the memory of resistance to racism and to the integration of gender race and ...
Being a pro-choice doula was controversial within many birth activist circles. There were many conservative Christian midwives and doulas who didn’t think doulas should support people during abortions. In this moment, as those same conservative Christians have succeeded in removing the right to abort...
asked Sophie, a middle aged Jewish-Orthodox feminist activist in Israel. With mock-horror, she replied: “Change?!”. Chuckling, Sophie explained that in Orthodoxy, “change is a dirty word, you don’t use the word change. […] We ‘re-interpret’ it. We have been doing [re-...
philosophically and politically. (Although, poet, journalist, and activist Robin Morgan has defended "man-hating" as the right of the oppressed class to hate the class that is oppressing them.)
Transactivist academics in South Korea did a “queering of the Bible” session to prove that the Bible supports trans theory, as well, LOL, and have ‘queered’ other conservative stances, just as they have leftist stances. Some conservatives ‘trans’ their children because, due ...
Barbara Ransby gives us the first full-bore scholarly investigation of Miss Baker's life, based on meticulous combing of church records, oral histories, the FBI files on Miss Baker (dating back to the 1940s), the papers of several activist organizations, and Miss Baker's own papers. I ...
*The Black Youth Project is a platform that highlights the voices and ideas of Black millennials. Though separate, we work closely with our sister activist organization, BYP 100, to bring light to efforts to better our communities through direct engagement.* ...
April Hubbard: Artist and Activist Erica Hornthal: Movement Therapy Fotini Chandrika: Healing with Horses Dr Fyre Jean Graveline: LIFE as Medicine Pandit Hari Shankar Dabral: Meditation Marie & Meaghan Wright: Film Pamela Madsen: Sex & Somatic Wellness ...
The activist force of feminism that Pappritz lauds in her letter came at the expense of a certain group of women—prostitutes, who, as erotic women standing outside the bounds of chastity and marriage, were isolated and silenced by the very women who claimed to be their liberators.Sex and ...
After expressing disappointment with apolitical black churches focused only on traditional community services, Obama goes on to point in a more activist direction: Over the past few years, however, more and more young and forward-thinking pastors have begun to look at community organizations such as...