Day: June 17, 2016

  • The lies passed down from my grandmother have led to multiple family members passing as white. I have now, sixteen years after discovering my grandmother’s secret, begun to question it in earnest. I have begun to read about and question the history of passing; I have begun to ask black friends about their hidden relatives,…

  • Talking Race: Space and Body The Bennington Free Press Bennington College, Bennington College, Vermont 2016-05-26 Samantha Barnett ‘19 I constantly think about how I move through space, how I claim space, how being mixed race means not knowing how my body will be identified. I think about how the first thing that I do when…

  • For You Were Strangers: A Hanley & Rivka Mystery Allium Press of Chicago 2015 320 pages 6″ x 9″ Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9890535-9-4 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-9967558-0-1 D. M. Pirrone [Diane Piron-Gelman] Chicago, Illinois On a spring morning in 1872, former Civil War officer Ben Champion is discovered dead in his Chicago bedroom—a bayonet protruding from…

  • What does ‘Latinx’ mean? A look at the term that’s challenging gender norms Complex 2016-04-18 Yesenia Padilla, Xicanx Poet Southern California If you’ve been online at all in the past year, you’ve probably seen the word “Latinx” and thought: What does it mean? Latinx (pronounced “La-TEEN-ex”) is a gender-inclusive way of referring to people of…

  • BEAUTIFUL ANITA HEMMING. STORY OF THE VASSAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROES. The Sacramento Daily Record-Union Friday, 1897-09-24 page 6, columns 1-4 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. STORY OF THE VASAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROS She Kept the Secret of Her Birth for Years From Her Roommate. This is the story of…