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Top 10 “What’s Up, Y’all?” Videos of 2020

December 27, 2020 by TBINAA Team Leave a Comment

2020 has been a difficult, heartbreaking, and tumultuous year in so many ways. The toll COVID is taking on our communities, especially the most disenfranchised among us (disproportionately poor and working-class people of color), remains heartbreakingly gut-wrenching. Governments across the globe have violated the rights of their people repeatedly, from the ongoing police … [Read more...]

7 Things My Unruly, Curly Hair Taught Me About Being Unapologetically Latinx

July 16, 2019 by Ella Mendoza Leave a Comment

Growing up, people would always asked me about my hair, about my skin, about my eyes, about my mother, about my grandmother. Anti-blackness would prompt these questions to become inquiries, attempting to trace back lineage beyond dialogue, and into imaginary stories that may have been true or may have not. In their eyes, my hair symbolized something foreign, something … [Read more...]

Misogynoir: Black Women and Femmes Surviving in the Face of State-Sanctioned Violence

October 6, 2018 by YM Carrington Leave a Comment

This is supposed to be an essay about misogynoir and the state. For me, state-sanctioned violence against Black women and femmes is an issue that is as hypervisible and super-exploited as it is misunderstood. Long before Black feminist scholar Moya Bailey created the term “misogynoir,” the phenomenon has wreaked havoc on African people worldwide, reinforced by a … [Read more...]

7 Things My Unruly, Curly Hair Taught Me About Being Unapologetically Latinx

Misogynoir: Black Women and Femmes Surviving in the Face of State-Sanctioned Violence

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