Blocking the wrong people: back in Facebook jail
In March, Facebook announced a new ban on white nationalist, white separatist, and white...
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Category: BIPOC
Team Indigenous educates through roller derby
The inclusive, empowering sport of roller derby is becoming a vehicle for indigenous women to...
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Don’t fear failure in intersectionality
Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw first coined the term “intersectionality” in the late 1980s to describe the...
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Black activism and ‘Facebook jail’
Dec. 16, 2017: Reported by a disgruntled person for a 90-day-old post about a bag of crackers....
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Young lesbian love tested in “Rafiki”
A village in Kenya serves as the colorful backdrop for the drama that unfolds in the film “Rafiki”...
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Being black in ‘progressive’ Iowa City
After living in the South most of my life, I decided to leave Texas back in 2012, decidedly headed...
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Spoken word and Black history: goddess, sword, friend
Where does spoken word fit in with Black history? The art of spoken word is like an old friend to...
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Grace, poise and confidence embodied in drag star AJ Hope
The thrill of mass adoration, the pain of discrimination, and the inspiring satisfaction of fighting back all came flying at A.J. Adorien within a few months’ time, at the tender age of 17.
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Spoken word is exploding
Caleb Rainey Iowa’s spoken word community is a snowball rolling down a hill, picking up...
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“Cassandro the Exotico!” illustrates how painful past shaped Lucha Libre legend
Lisa Skriver provides a review of Cassandro, The Exotico!, a documentary about Lucha Libre pro wrestling pioneer Saúl Armendáriz.
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