#britney cooper

[readtilyoudie]

“White privilege works by making the advantages white people have invisible while making the supposedly 'poor' choices of people of color hypervisible.”

― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

[thecurvycritic]

In Our Mother's Garden Cultivates a Soil Rich with Love, Truth and Laughter

Shantrelle P. Lewis helps America take a much needed look #InOurMothersGarden @netflix and culitvates the soil with love, laughter and realness #netflix #mothers #array

There is a woman from St. Louis who dreamed of being a nurse and helping those who medically suffered.   Even after failing the board exam, she never gave up and eventually lived out that dream as Registered Nurse in every conceivable nursing department for more than 50 years.  That woman has been a beacon of courage, hope and tenacity for an entire family for decades.  Her name is Claudet and…

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[battingonjakku]

Roll up guys, because we’ve had the team photoshoots for the WT20, and as we know, the photoshoots are always as good as the tournaments themselves.

1-3 are our regular super enthusiastic cricket poses and team repping

4 & 5 - I don’t think anyone has ever looked as good in a photocall as Aaliyah Alleyne does in these 

6 - got to have the dancing in

7 & 8 are great and also there is a lot of bat-as-guitar going in across the team photoshoots so be prepared

[thenewdemocratus]

Salon: Britney Cooper: 'We Must Abandon Bill Cosby: A Broken Trust With Women, Black America'

The New Democrat Salon: Opinion: Britney Cooper: We Must Abandon Bill Cosby: A Broken Trust With Women In 1984 when the Cosby Show came on the air on NBC, I was eight years old in September, 1984. Actually I have more to say about this, but in the mid 1980s African-American families were stereotyped as poor, low-class, un-educated, single-parent with the mother trying to raise multiple kids on…

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[readtilyoudie]

Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh. It is the BEST feeling in the world when you're reading a book that you stumbled upon, and what's this? It's QUEER???? And queer mermaids? Oh, my heart, it bursts with love. But these are not your classic gentile mermaids, and I love them all the more for it. They spend most of their time as humans but honestly, still a great mermaid comic.

Rec! Trigger Warning for Body Dysphoria, Nakedness, Blood

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Britney Cooper. It's difficult to talk about books like this one because quite frankly, my opinion doesn't matter. What does matter, however, is this book, and I would suggest it to any socially conscious person out there as a must-read.

Definite Rec.

Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke. I love memoirs. I love learning about something new. I always had a vague idea of Pan Am but never anything concrete, never any real info. This book hit all the spots for me as a memoir: informative and enjoyable. It set the background and tone for what happened with the people involved and the company.

I'd recommend it. It's not something I'd read twice but I think if you get enjoyment out of it just the once, then that's really all you need.

Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit by Colby Cedar Smith. THIS. This book is EXACTLY what I want from European immigrant stories. It seamlessly blended past and present, the story of her parents and her own, and I have fallen deeply, deeply in love with it. It's written in verse, but I ended up listening to it.

Absolute REC just for the way it WRECKED me.

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill. This one ended on the Did Not Finish list and isn't one of my kinder reviews. It felt like the best parts of the poetry had been dissected and posted on tumblr, and that the poems themselves lacked. The reason I did not finish, however, is because of the horribly triggering take on The Little Mermaid, specifically the line, "She learned to love the body she was in." I see what the author was trying to do, but I feel like the whole point of TLM was missed and I'm going to try not to launch into a rant here so I'll just end this review by saying hard pass.

Big Nope from me.

[releasesoon]

Women's World T20 2018: Defending champions Windies more than capable of repeating miracle in front of home fans

Women's World T20 2018: Defending champions Windies more than capable of repeating miracle in front of home fans

The Windies women created history two years back in India in 2016 as they defeated heavyweights Australia by eight wickets in the final to clinch their maiden World T20 final.

Two years later, they are not just the defending champions but also the hosts of the tournament. It will be the second time Windies will be hosting the tournament, but unlike in 2010, when both…

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[dakrolak]

America's Enduring Casual Racism

Southern whiteness offends white liberal progressive sensibilities in the same way that one’s offensive, racist aunt or uncle embarrasses you when you bring your friends home for a visit. Thus liberal and progressive white people continue to try to distance themselves from these clearly problematic racial politics, by shaming and denouncing overtly racist acts. The problem is that this keeps…

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Pauli Murray

"In a recent interview at Georgetown University, Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflected on the history behind one of her key legal accomplishments, the 1971 case of Reed v. Reed. After an estranged couple lost their son, his mother, Sally Reed, petitioned to administer his estate. But Idaho law maintained that 'males must be preferred to females,' in such matters. Ginsburg authored the plaintiff’s brief for the case when it reached the Supreme Court, arguing that the 14th amendment protected against discrimination based upon sex. When the court ruled in Sally Reed’s favor, it was the first time that the Equal Protection Clause had been applied to a case of sex discrimination. But much of the legal groundwork for that argument can be attributed to Dr. Pauli Murray, a Howard University-trained lawyer, who began to argue in the 1960s, that the Equal Protection Clause should be applied to cases of sex discrimination in much the same way that it had been applied to cases of racial discrimination. Murray’s argument constituted what legal historian Serena Mayeri termed 'reasoning from race,' in which race analogies were used to make clear the subordinate status of women. Though today we speak of these matters in the language of intersections, a term gleaned from legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, it is Pauli Murray’s initial invocation of the race-sex analogy for black women’s positionality within the law that is the most direct precursor to Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality. Ginsburg named Murray and Judge Dorothy Kenyon as co-authors of her brief in the Reed case, because even though they didn’t help to write it, these two women had been pioneers in creating the legal strategy for fighting sex discrimination. Ginsburg’s choice to name these women as co-authors is a model for how to solve contemporary issues among young feminists over white feminists’ appropriation without attribution of the intellectual and political labor of women of color." Black, Queer, Feminist, Erased From History - Dr. Britney Cooper  (bold text mine)