By Richard Raya
“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.” This quote, evocative as it is on its own, is the title of an entire essay by Audre Lorde, a self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” I was introduced to her work in my Black Feminist Thought class as I worked toward an American Studies degree . . .
By Asantewaah Ofosuhene
“Justice delayed is justice denied.” We have all heard this saying, but what does it really mean? This legal maxim means, when there is equitable relief available to an injured party, but that relief is not given in a timely manner, then it is as if there is no remedy at all. Why is delayed justice, leading to no justice, normalized within the United States criminal justice system? . . .
By Sarah Nawab
Trigger warning/content warning: This blog post contains descriptions of state violence against Black people, including killing, brutalization, and sexual assault and harassment, as well as descriptions of physical and sexual brutalization of Black women during the chattel slavery era.
By Mackenzie Darling
During a public health crisis, the public is thinking about their health and the safety of their loved ones. However, while society is focused on protecting people from COVID-19, the sexual health and wellbeing of individuals is under major threat. This forum discusses three major concerns about the current state of sexual and reproductive health: (1) the impact the COVID-19 pandemic may have on people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); (2) how state executive orders are preventing access to abortions; and (3) how the closures of doctor’s offices, Planned Parenthood health clinics, and non-essential stores pose a major threat to access to contraception and sexually transmitted infection (STI) healthcare . . .
By Elijah Miller
Drop a pin on any threadbare of our crises and you will find a thousand shifting layers of history folding in to form our social architecture. Over [100,000][1] U.S. residents and counting have now been snuffed out by a deadly combination of COVID-19 and an unrestrained dominance of racialized Neoliberal capitalism. Like so many diseases, Coronavirus is a threat, but it is the pre-existing conditions that make it so deadly. With blotted eyes and broken shoulders, rotted lungs, minds strung out of our gaslit sons, every organ in our social body aches in self-immolating class, gender, race . . .