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Going Home
I have been spending my summer in the steaming hot hallways of public housing, knocking on Korean tenants’ doors to talk about issues they face. Come inside, they say. “밥묵었나?” I nod, but they still...
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Slave Chains and Faggots and Camp… Oh My!
Illustrations by Krissy Pelley Oh, camp: that elusive other-world of lampoon and exaggerated meta-theatricality. Where RuPaul, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, and Toto kick back and roast the world. Since the dawn...
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Wading to Taki
Illustration by Sophia Terazawa A cuckoo coo-coos while flying. Nearby, a congregation of red-throated flycatchers quarrel for space among the bougainvillea vines. I imagine them...
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Horror 101: Top Tips For Raising Your Demon Baby
This is a guest post from the blog brainfarts, which features pop culture, feminism and cats. Spoiler warning: Braindead, Carrie, The Fifth Child, Frankenstein, Grace, The Innocents, The Orphanage,...
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On Wednesday, December 9th Brown University’s administration hosted a Faculty Forum to discuss the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP). You can read the plan here, however, we recommend that you...
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Dominican Anti-Blackness
Illustration by Kelly Wang *** We were socialized from an early age to name blackness. To taunt it, to call it names. My friends and I compared skin colors as we played the “who’s blacker?” game....
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Reclaiming Rock and Roll: Black Women Thinkers in Rock Music
Growing up, my dad listened to rock music consistently and naturally this musical taste rubbed off on me. However, I always felt a disconnect between those promoted as the face of rock (white men) and...
View ArticleWhy Fox’s New Show Pitch Has Hit a Homerun
In my family, baseball is religion. Small prayers are said at Yankee games; our cathedral was the old Yankee Stadium; our annual pilgrimage is to Cooperstown, New York for the National Baseball Hall of...
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Read a Zine! Indigenous People’s Day Edition: 7 Native Zines to Read Right Now
Hi, and welcome to the first installment of Read a Zine! To celebrate and elevate the voices of indigenous peoples, this is a list of native zines for you to explore. Links of where to read or buy are...
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Policing the Planet (A Storify)
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. Edited by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton. On Friday, October 14, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, and Pete White...
View ArticleA Playlist for the Aspiring Afrofuturist
“Afrofuturism bridges so many aspects of our culture, from African mythology, art and hip-hop to politics, comic books and science” – Ytasha L. Womack What is afrofuturism? Afrofuturism is a Black...
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Raunch as Resistance: A Black Femme Mixtape
Nicki Minaj’s Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape on repeat was the soundtrack to my ninth grade life. As I sat at the cafeteria’s colored girls table in my almost all white high school, my friends and I talked...
View Article5 Women of Color-Led Shows to Watch
The idea that #RepresentationMatters is not new. The American entertainment industry has been called into question time and time again for its lack of diversity, far before the #OscarsSoWhite movement...
View ArticlePrincess Nokia at Brown
Destiny Frasqueri (aka Princess Nokia) visited Brown University on April 27th, the day before her Spring Weekend performance. In a conversation facilitated by bluestockings co-editor-in-chief, Sofia...
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The Ambivalence of Empowerment
The Free the Nipple campaign has been in and out of the media limelight since December 2013 when Lina Esco met an onslaught of censorship during her attempt to release a new film. The feature length...
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