By Jacqui Lewis — 2015
A Diverse Coalition of Women Finds Church at Emanuel AME.
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There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system.
In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies.
Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media―from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels―has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self.
Asian American Sexual Politics explores the topics of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans.
For most women, the pressure to be "beautiful" is difficult, but Asian American women face a unique challenge.
Raji Aujla interviews writer Fariha Róisín about what informs her work and what inspires her as an artist.
Time to talk about micro-aggressions like: “Arregla la raza.”
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In Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina.
Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.
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