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In the Open Air
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Love Letter From A Poet Under Empire

by mónica teresa ortiz September 5, 2024September 5, 2024

On our best days, we dream and wake up to new possibilities. On our worst days, together, we can endure. This is what the South reminds me.

Surviving the Crash
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Surviving the Crash

by Ryan Ken May 31, 2024May 31, 2024
The Hell Inside Hell: Solitary Confinement in Texas Hides the Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Hell Inside Hell

by Kwaneta Harris May 30, 2024May 30, 2024
Hell and High Water: From Gaza to Mississippi
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Hell and High Water: From Gaza to Mississippi

by Mary Annaïse Heglar May 2, 2024August 27, 2024
Rest is Not Resistance
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Rest is Not Resistance, and That is OK

by Trey Washington March 28, 2024November 19, 2024
Brown Eyes in a Blue-Eyed World
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Brown Eyes in a Blue-Eyed World

by Kahlia Phillips March 27, 2024March 27, 2024
Israel has targeted and killed at least 75 Palestinian journalists and media workers in attempts to silence the free press from witnessing the horrors of the occupation and siege of Gaza.
Posted inSCALAWAG UPDATES

Why journalists must speak out about Gaza

by Aja Arnold, Victoria Bouloubasis, Rebecca Chowdhury, R. Garringer, Charmaine Lang, Nour Saudi, Tina Vasquez, Irene Vázquez and Lewis Raven Wallace December 5, 2023December 5, 2023
State conspiracies and censorship of the incarcerated in prison.
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Conspiracyz, Scum Pigz, & the Dept. of Censorship

by G. Z. June 21, 2023September 27, 2023
Tina Turner performs onstage at the United Center, October 1, 2000. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) How Tina Turner's abuse and trauma remains a hip-hop trope.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

How Tina Turner's trauma remains a hip-hop trope—and why we need to abolish it

by Justin A. Davis May 25, 2023November 13, 2023
Victim or survivor? The language of patriarchal violence. Assigning language of victimhood or survival to those who have experienced gender violence is dehumanizing—not empowering.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Who said we all survived?

by Breya M. Johnson May 25, 2023May 24, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Captive Maternal is a function, not an identity marker

by Joy James April 28, 2023November 21, 2023
How Atlanta’s tradition of compromise betrays Black revolutionary violence: a critique of Black Political Action and the bargain of freedom. A critique of the state's appropriation of John Lewis' legacy to quell the radical demands for Black Power at its heart.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

What's Next for the Captive Maternal, Part II: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 27, 2023November 21, 2023
How Atlanta’s tradition of compromise betrays Black revolutionary violence: a critique of Black Political Action and the bargain of freedom. A critique of the state's appropriation of John Lewis' legacy to quell the radical demands for Black Power at its heart.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

What's Next for the Captive Maternal: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 26, 2023November 21, 2023
Is abolition a love language? On Black love as a form of resistance in the case of the first Black Bachelor Matt James. Revolutionary Love challenges the erotic logic of racial fetishism. An examination of romance and the politics of Black masculinity.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Oshun's Suicide, Part II: Eros, Repetition, and Reprieve in Black Popular Culture 

by Jordan Mulkey April 21, 2023November 21, 2023
Is abolition a love language? On Black love as a form of resistance in the case of the first Black Bachelor Matt James. Revolutionary Love challenges the erotic logic of racial fetishism. An examination of romance and the politics of Black masculinity.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Oshun's Suicide: Eros, Repetition, and Reprieve in Black Popular Culture 

by Jordan Mulkey April 19, 2023November 21, 2023
Black Poetics and the Captive Maternal: Joy James asks poets to confront Black violence, using poetry as a means of survival and liberation.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

On the Tensions and (Im)Possibilities of Black Poetics: No Shame, No Devil

by Jon Jon Moore Palacios April 14, 2023November 21, 2023
Reproductive justice and the fight for bodily autonomy in the state's war on Black women's abortion “rights,” labor, bodies, and caretaking.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Reflections on Reproductive Justice and the Captive Maternal

by Breya M. Johnson April 12, 2023November 21, 2023
Black educators' undervalued labor and the need for community support and Revolutionary Love against schooling-as-colonial-indoctrination.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Radical Care Work in the Project of Schooling

by Anna Almore April 7, 2023November 21, 2023
From Caretaker to Rebel: The dialectical relationship between Black motherhood and captivity and the role of love as a tool of political will.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Love and War: Dialectics and the Stages of the Captive Maternal

by Ziyana Lategan April 5, 2023November 21, 2023
Da'Shaun Harrison on death and revolution in the struggle for freedom. Dying is a part of struggle. Revolutionary Love is the catalyst.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Stakes of Revolution and the Death of Desire

by Da'Shaun Harrison March 31, 2023November 21, 2023
The Captive Maternal's Revolutionary Love. The transformative power of Black love in the face of oppression.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

At the impasse of Revolution and Revolutionary Love

by RAW Wilcox March 30, 2023November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Contradictions and Convictions: Megan Thee Stallion and why abolition can't wait

by Da'Shaun Harrison February 14, 2023December 1, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

There is no healing in an antiblack world

by Da'Shaun Harrison February 1, 2023December 1, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

In the soil, in the sound: Houston's Jamal Cyrus gets to the root of Southern Black aesthetics

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 17, 2022December 1, 2023
Posted inSCALAWAG UPDATES

Anita Hill: Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court signals historic change 

by Anita Hill February 28, 2022July 1, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Contraband Books: What Texas prisons have against Michelle Alexander, Frederick Douglass, and Alice Walker

by Julie Poole September 28, 2021September 28, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

You're swamped? Join the club.

by Ko Bragg and Virginia Walcott September 17, 2021September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The old devil and the new details

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 29, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

White tears will never be the solution

by Matt Hartman March 19, 2021April 1, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

'T-Pain was important because he was ours'

by Israel Daramola March 8, 2021March 8, 2021

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