Ink and Glitter.

Dr. Kaila Story is a Professor of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies & Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville. She also holds the Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. She is the co-host & co-producer of WFPL’s Strange Fruit podcast: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/440577316/strange-fruit

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I'm only watching Sinners for the plot,

The plot............

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TFW's Most Recent Addition to "Feminists We Love": Dr. Kalia Adia Story

Kaila Adia Story (Ph.D., African American Studies & Women’s Studies Temple University M.A., African American Studies Temple University; B.A. Women’s Studies DePaul University) is an associate professor and currently holds the Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in the Departments of Women’s & Gender Studies & Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville.

Dr. Story’s research explores the intersections of race, class, and sexuality in identity performance, mass media, body politics, and the like. Currently, she is looking at how reality television posits Black and Female identity and reinforces past controlling images of Black women.

“While the racism of white feminists is a huge concern to us all, it should not be the main objective of the Black feminist movement. My research and activism, I hope, in part, lets feminists of color know that there is a space for them within feminism and Women’s and Gender Studies. That their foremothers’ feminisms and theirs have changed, shaped, and challenged the discourse of feminism and Women’s and Gender Studies to such a degree that it has literally and figuratively “brought the life into feminism” as Barabara Smith has said.”

>> Check out the interview here: “Feminists We Love: Dr. Kalia Adia Story”

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TFW co-founder Tamura Lomax on Strange Fruit with Kaila Adia Story and Jaison Ashley talking all things #JezebelUnhinged. Check it out!

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Black women are more visible than ever. Now what?

The Undefeated turned 5 this week and is marking the occasion with a series of essays looking at the last five years in Black America. Lemon

“That album not only showed the multifaceted layers of the artist herself, but it also reflected the complexity of Black women’s experiences when it comes to articulating how complex it is to live within the intersections of race and gender within a culture that is both misogynist and anti-Black,” said Kaila Adia Story, a professor of race, gender, class and sexuality studies at the University of Louisville.

For Black transgender women and Black nonbinary people, this level of visibility can be soul-crushing because it’s used to deny their experiences and dehumanize them, even in their death. “Every year for the past several years we have seen Black transgender women and Black nonbinary folks killed just because their existence troubles antiquated notions of race and gender,” Story said. “So, while visibility is necessary for many minoritized groups, it is also extremely dangerous.”

For all Black women, there’s a sense that being hypervisible comes with a responsibility to themselves, to their community and to the sustaining of their ongoing cultural relevance.

There’s nothing new about this. “Black women have always served as the poster children for any and all progressive movements and yet, many of these movements and initiatives want Black women to remain in this space of using our image to push certain empowerment and diversity agendas. But when it comes to actual structural, institutional or community change, this freer world that they envision do not include Black women,” Story said. Black women’s faces are everywhere, Story said, but “there are no Black women at the table spearheading the change our embodiment represents to so many folks.”

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The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity

By Kaila Adia Story.

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Vinyl Records 🎶

Music is the most beautiful thing in the world 🫶🏽

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“i hope i die

warmed

by the life that i tried

to live”

— Nikki Giovanni

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Merry Christmas 🎄

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Lady and the Tramp (1955) dir. C. Geronimi, W. Jackson, H. Luske

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fasho 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

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Wouldn’t trade it for anything

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Mary Fields (c. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States. Fields had the star route contract for the delivery of U.S. mail from Cascade, Montana, to Saint Peter's Mission. She drove the route for two four-year contracts, from 1895 to 1899 and from 1899 to 1903. Author Miantae Metcalf McConnell provided documentation discovered during her research about Mary Fields to the United States Postal Service Archives Historian in 2006. This enabled the USPS to establish Mary Fields' contribution as the first African-American female star route mail carrier in the United States

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I WILL NEVER FULLY RECOVER FROM THIS

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I Own My Own Destiny by Michelle Gibbs