Writing about identity is a pressure for me as a person of color, a queer person, and a queer person of color. So often it...
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Archive for tag: intersectionality
VIDA Reviews! This Will Be My Undoing, by Morgan Jerkins
It’s no accident the cover of Morgan Jerkins book has her looking up with eyes closed as though she’s imagining the positive impact of her...
News Flash: There’s No Central Office Called #MeToo
1 I’d already had a bad day when I read Daphne Merkin’s now-infamous Op-Ed in The New York Times, “Publicly, We Say #MeToo. Privately, We...
Kill Your Heroes: Examining Marianne Moore’s Fraught Racial, Misogynistic, and Capitalist Politics
Gwendolyn Brooks had already become the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry when fellow poet Marianne Moore sent this letter...
Falling to Fly: Letting the Black Female Within Guide as White Supremacy Thrives
In the era before cesarean sections became the norm in my Florida Panhandle hometown, my closest kin learned an outsized, stubborn head, forceps, and a...
To Insist on the Depth and Complexity of Our Lives
In a book I found years ago, Adrienne Rich is quoted as saying, “This is the work I see for us now: to insist in...
Intersectionality and Activism in the Literary Landscape Podcast and Panelist Discussion
On Monday, June 6, 2016 VIDA presented Intersectionality and Activism in the Literary Landscape at Housing Works. The conversation featured writer-activists Jennifer Baker, Cat Fitzpatrick,...
Compassionate Curating: Editing Halal If You Hear Me
Fatimah Asghar: There are as many ways of being Muslim as there are Muslims. That was the first thing that Safia and I talked about when...
Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces
I will always remember this past summer as one riddled with Black death. I was living in isolation at the time, with my parents in...
Report from the Field: The Other Section
I attempt to practice a feminism rooted essentially in intersectionality. As a woman who has had the privilege of studying feminist theory that illuminates the...