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The Trouble With Wonder Woman

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Today in 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. pic.twitter.com/gtZCJsJ9Xm

— HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) May 5, 2014

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Aamer Rahman has recently caused quite a stir among Game of Thrones fandom with his Tumblr post about the HBO show’s very problematic representation of race, most notably that hideous last episode of season three. Rahman’s original Tumblr post and his response to the massive backlash from  fans has been reposted below, with Rahman’s permission. …

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Things get real around minute 4:15... Chicago housing discrimination and Donald Sterling not wanting "his woman" to be hanging out with black people, even if she's black = why feminism needs to think more broadly about how power and privilege work (yes, through gender, but obviously as in this case, across many other forms of violence). Listening to these 10 minutes of Bomani Jones will be worth your while. 

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Many who have worked on British colonialism in South Asia have noted the use of the woman question in colonial policies where intervention into sati (the practice of widows immolating themselves on their husbands’ funeral pyres), child marriage, and other practices was used to justify rule, As Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1988) has cynically put it: white men saving brown women from brown men, The historical record is full of similar cases, including in the Middle East, In Turn of the Century Egypt, what Leila Ahmed (1992) has called “colonial feminism” was hard at work, This was a selective concern about the plight of Egyptian women that focused on the veil as a sign of oppression but gave no support to women’s education and was professed loudly by the same Englishman, Lord Cromer, who opposed women’s suffrage back home.

Abu-lughod, L. (2001). Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others. American Anthropologist, 104(3), 783–790. (via anti-hegemony)

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During an interview in the 1980s, Black female science fiction writer Octavia Butler was asked her how it felt to be THE Black female science fiction writer. And Octavia replied she never wanted th...

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True, the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept. And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not lady-hood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality, she may very well have invented herself.

Toni Morrison (via eibmorb)

She created herself.

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