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Manifesting Justice
Edna Bonhomme on the origins of the reproductive justice movement and its fight for bodily autonomy.
The term “welfare queen” emerged in 1974 with a white woman. Based in Chicago, Mrs Linda Taylor was accused by the Department of Public Aid of allegedly syphoning $154,000 from public funds. Although it began with a white woman, it took on a new life two years later, when Ronald Reagan began his presidential campaign. Vehement against the poor, Reagan told the New...
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Statement regarding Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip
M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! is an astonishing, transcendent work that shows us the intricacies of the relationship between language and power.
for Darnella (who saw too much too young) by M. NourbeSe Philip
“I seen a man kneeling. I seen a man terrified, scared, begging for his life. It wasn’t right. He was suffering. He was in pain I heard George Floyd saying, ‘Please get off.’ He cried for his mother.”
The House of Windsor Must Fall by M. NourbeSe Philip
The House of Windsor Must Fall—but not before they pay reparations to the descendants of the victims of the transatlantic slave trade.
I do not care that Meghan and Harry are wealthy and live in Los Angeles in an expensive home—I care that they are exposing the obscenity that is the British monarchy.