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While speaking at an event presented by AFROPUNK, The Apollo, The Atlantic this week in New York, continuing the dialogue about themes in Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther”, Lupita Nyong’o, Chadwick Boseman, and The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke on many hot takes. But one of the most notable takes was Boseman’s perspective on the rivalry between …
Physician and best-selling author Gabor Maté talks about “normal” and what it might mean.
Your other TA sent me this image yesterday. It’s in french but is still widely unsettling: I give (black woman), I receive (younger blond white girl).
Bc black women exist for white women’s gain??????
Another ad submitted by one of your colleagues... for a controller. I would argue that the add itself isn’t terrible, but the product is super questionable. Why do we need to use women’s bodies like this?
In my previous post I suggested that making a complaint can be a form of diversity work. You might have to complain in order to progress within an organisation. When a complaint is necessary in ord…
Being a feminist killjoy in many cases means taking on diversity work. Diversity work means being a feminist killjoy and killing the joy of white supremacy. Here, Sara Ahmed discusses this work.
To live a feminist life is to be a feminist at work. Until I resigned, my own working life had been based in universities: I was a student for around 10 years and I have been an academic for over 2…
In 2016, Sara Ahmed resigned from her position at a university because of the policies there around sexual assault and harassment. In this blog post, she addresses resignation as a feminist issue, while also recognizing how privileged she is to be able to resign from her job.
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”This is a revolutionary, extraordinary sentence. It is a much loved, much cited sentence…
From Sara Ahmed’s blog, one of my all-time favourite essays about Audre Lorde and the politics of self-care.
“Within current debates about race and difference, mass culture is the contemporary location that both publicly declares and perpetuates the idea that there is pleasure to be found in the acknowledgement and enjoyment of racial difference. The commodification of Otherness has been so successful because it is offered as a new delight, more intense, more satisfying than normal ways of doing and feeling. Within commodity culture, ethnicity becomes commodity culture, ethnicity becomes spice, seasoning that can liven up the dull dish that is mainstream white culture....The “real fun” is to be had by bringing to the surface all those “nasty” unconscious fantasies and “nasty” unconscious fantasies and longings about contact with the Other embedded in the secret (not so secret) deep structure of white supremacy” -bell hooks
