Category: Women

  • Multiethnic Women FEM: UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973 2015-12-04 Kali Croke Out of all the things that compose an individual’s identity, one’s culture (defined by similarities in ideals, religion, language, habits, etc.) is perhaps the most significant. While we mostly understand the experiences of people of different singular cultures, oftentimes the experiences of individuals with…

  • 19 Black UK Actresses Who Are Killing The Game Across The Pond Essence 2016-11-17 Sydney Scott There’s tons of talent coming out of the UK, with many actresses crossing the pond and appearing in some of our favorite television shows and movies. There are too many talented actresses to name, but we had to share…

  • This week, Britain’s ITV showed a programme on Mary Seacole entitled “In the Shadow of Mary Seacole.” In some ways, the programme could have been titled, “Mary Seacole in the Shadow of British Racism.” Many people who initially celebrated the fact that ITV was telling the story of the woman labeled “The Greatest Black Briton”…

  • 2 Tone legend Pauline Black to get honorary degree from Coventry University The Coventry Telegraph 2016-11-21 Catherine Lillington Pauline Black “It’s really important women don’t reach the menopause and go away and knit” Ska and 2 Tone legend Pauline Black is being honoured by Coventry University for her support of the city’s music scene. The…

  • Family secrets ripple through time when three present-day sisters discover the truth about a young African-American woman passing for white sixty years before. What happens in between is a frank and funny look at the shifting boundaries of tolerance and what identity really means.

  • BrownBox Theatre and Sound Theatre Company to Present Encore Reading of BLACK LIKE US Broadway World 2016-11-05 BWW News Desk To celebrate the publication of the play Black Like Us, BrownBox Theatre joins forces with Sound Theatre Company to present an “encore” staged reading of the Gregory Award Winning Play at the Langston Hughes Performing…

  • In “Colluding, Colliding, Contending with Norms of Whiteness,” Jennifer Chandler takes on the difficult task of unpacking Whiteness within interracial family structures.

  • TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage Tripod WWNO 89.9 FM New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-09-22 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Host There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in the early 1800s. Looking around, you see a large group of white men and free…

  • Paisley Rekdal Wins the 2016 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction University of Georgia Press 2016-10-05 Paisley Rekdal (photo credit: Austen Diamond) Congratulations to Paisley Rekdal for winning this year’s Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction with her work The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.…

  • Brown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy New York University Press September 2016 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 9781479808175 Paper ISBN: 9781479894864 Laura Harrison, Assistant Professor Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Minnesota State University, Mankato Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman—through in-vitro fertilization…