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4 Reasons I’m So Done Being Told ‘Don’t Be Too Picky’ About Dates
— By Suzannah Weiss “Most guys don’t really get feminism, so you can’t be too picky.” I’m venting to a friend about a guy I’m newly dating and thinking of calling it quits with. He’s doubtful that...
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The Fine Comb
‘The Fine Comb’ is a spoken word film that challenges the audience through manifestations of white privilege. The film draws on the spoken word poem ‘Do Not Touch My Hair’ by Esther Ogunfeitimi, and...
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Challenging Dad
The following post is in response to a writing prompt I received from a reader: I would like to read your response to the tie between absentee father’s sons with the attitude of anti-authority (law,...
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White Work
I am a white, progressive, 37-year-old man who was raised in a city so proud of celebrating its diversity and education system that it was blind to both its ever-growing economic divide and the clear...
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Black Opera: Singing Over Ourselves
I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, often called “the Whitest City in America.” I’m a Black singer, dancer, actor, composer, and musician. I’m an opera singer and a contemporary, soulful artist....
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Why We Need to Stop the ‘Strong Black Woman’ Trope, It Is Not a Compliment.
For the past hundreds of years, black women have been given compliments about how “strong” they are and how they can easily combat any difficulty and how we can easily solve problems with no doubt....
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10 Ways Your Social Justice Work Might Be Inaccessible and Elitist (and Why...
By Hari Ziyad I’m an artist first. But I decided long ago that my art would be in the service of fighting oppression. Since then, I’ve waded more deeply into social justice spaces, and I find myself...
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Micah Peterson on Embracing His Blackness, Shutting Down Microaggressions,...
. . Studying abroad in college was an eye-opening experience for Micah Peterson. The culture shock of living in Japan and being perceived a certain way because of his skin color renewed Micah’s...
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A Reflection on Yom Hashoah
Under the Hitler regime…the most important thing that I learned…was that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problems. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful, and the most...
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Mass Shootings and the Failure of Empathy
We can divide criminal or antisocial actions into two broad categories: failures of empathy and means to an end. Doing so allows us to better see how our everyday actions affect others. Classifying...
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I’m Asian and My White Mom Doesn’t Understand the Racism I Face
Dear Other Dad, I live on the East coast with my white family but I am adopted from Asia. Having a conversation with my mom in particular about race has become increasingly more difficult and she...
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Higher Education: The Intense Intersection of Racial, Religious, and Sexual...
Editor’s note: This post was written in November 2019 and is, regrettably, still relevant today. — Over the past few months, hell, past few years, a number of college campuses have been inundated with...
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Should Jamaica Become a Republic, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and More!
Black Canada Talking is a live online event hosted by Dr. Vibe that provides Black Canadians an opportunity to give their takes and POVs on stories that are of importance to them. On the March 27, 2022...
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Dead Philosophers’ Society
Jake Meiss believes he is being manipulated by dead people: wrong-headed philosophers and scholars that his readers have never heard of. Wielding the kind of writing that comes off preachy and...
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Microaggressions: Is the Term Inclusive or Outdated?
The ever evolving terminology of DEI Derald Wing Sue, a psychologist, brought the term “microaggressions” — coined in the 1970s by Harvard University professor Chester Pierce to describe the subtle,...
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Women Are ‘Breaking up’ With Corporate – Three Strategies to Close the Gender...
By Kathryn Buntain Women are ‘breaking up’ with Corporate America. This year’s Women in the Workplace report by McKinsey & Company cites three key reasons why women are still exiting corporate...
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Breaking the Cycle of Body Size Bias
Microaggressions are everyday verbal or behavioral actions that may be unintended but can be perceived as demeaning, derogatory, or insulting. These actions stem from implicit biases, prejudices, or...
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Black Patients Dress Up and Modify Speech to Reduce Bias, California Survey...
By Annie Sciacca A young mother in California’s Antelope Valley bathes her children and dresses them in neat clothes, making sure they look their very best — at medical appointments. “I brush their...
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I’m Losing Tons of Friends Fighting Racism – And I’m Totally Okay With That
By Johnny Silvercloud Originally published on Afrosapiophile and cross-posted here with the author’s permission. As an Afro-American man in this nation called the United States, it is a known fact...
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Being ‘Too Sensitive’ Isn’t the Problem – Oppression Is
By Michal ‘MJ’ Jones I’m shopping in the mall with my father in Ballwin, MO. I want to take a peek at some snapbacks, so we venture into Lids, and I take a quick look around. We are the only...
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