By Kamilah Majied Renown educator and Buddhist leader, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda offers a vision for academia when he states, Education makes us free. It is through education that we are liberated from powerlessness, from the burden of mistrust directed against ourselves. The individual who has been liberated from self-doubt, who has learned to trust...
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?For every well-known black woman whose death has been noted and marked, there are countless other black women who have died in the shadows. These are the black women in our neighborhoods and communities who suffer in silence from AIDS, hypertension, diabetes or domestic violence. They are the black women who die without anyone...
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By J. Victoria Sanders? I first dreamed of being a professor and writer in seventh grade after reading Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life by bell hooks?and Cornel West. Their brilliant minds reflected on the page made it safer to imagine a future where I wouldn?t be isolated for being the girl in the...
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By?Kamilah Aisha Moon Five strong, consistent years as an adjunct professor. So what? So what you spend extra, unpaid hours assisting students who arrive needing far more than a semester in your class could ever provide. So what you need surgery to literally keep from bleeding to death from a condition that was exacerbated...
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By Erin ?Mari? Morales-Williams Right now I am depressed.? My aunt?s husband sexually violated me when I was a teenager, and since she is still with him and he still comes to family events, I am forced to mentally split if I am to still enjoy my family. He was in my house for...
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By Sandra E. Weissinger I started my career as a sociologist in New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina. The school I worked at still held classes in trailers. The trailers were old. The interiors would get wet when it rained. Doors would not close. Several were said to have a mold problem. The...
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By Melva L. Sampson I am exhausted! It is exhaustion that overwhelms and overruns me because of its deep-seated roots. Roots that make one question her presence in the Academy while simultaneously questioning her ability to be a mother. How is it that I can maintain my authentic voice within a space where my...
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"ripping hot and fierce down the night skytill they are out of our pining sight,too quickly, more frequently than we can bear,their incandescent metal, incinerating, isthe occasion and inverse of wish."
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Sounds to Me Like A Promise: On Survival (Part One of a Three Part Meditation on Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years by Dagmaar Schultz) ?I love the word survival, it always sounds to me like a promise.? It makes me wonder sometimes though, how do I define the shape of my impact upon this...
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By?Lindah Mhando? This is a dedication to my dear sister friend Aaronette White. The use of the word ?warrior? doesn?t suggest women as warmongers ready to pick up the sword; instead it deploys critical thinking on how issues of Womanist health can be thought and re-thought in the academy. To me this topic raises...
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By Analena Hope ?Can I live?? This simple yet resounding question has been posed a number of times in different ways by Black feminists within and outside of the academy, and quite often the answer is: no, not without a fight and an intentional will to be well. If the academy is a body,...
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By Tressie McMillan Cottom My great grandmother used to pay me to talk, about anything and nothing. She just ?loved to hear that child speak!? She said my oratory would be my saving grace. My mother said my little red tongue would get me into more trouble than she could save me from. They...
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Source: http://thefeministwire.com/2012/11/out-of-the-shadows-a-conversation-with-evelyn-c-white/
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