Tag Archives: women of color

Podcast: Celebrating Women Organizers of Color

Podcast: Play in new window | Download For Women’s History Month, People Of Color Organize! celebrates women organizers of color relating and making history. Interviews this episode are with student organizer of color Abby Sun, co-founder of Feminist Coming Out Day; and Alondra Nelson, whose new book, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and [...]

NYC: Gender and the State in Contemporary Iran

Most feminist studies of post-1979 Iran focus on the legal setbacks that women encountered and their collective strategies for regaining the formal grounds they lost with the establishment of an Islamic Republic in Iran. Iranian women’s studies should not, however, only examine social movements and elite political action in its effort to decipher the post-revolutionary [...]

Saturday Radical Culture: Laura Flanders on Race, Racism and the Politics of Reproduction

Occupied Bodies: Women of Color Speak on Self-Image

I am soliciting essays for an anthology on women of color’s self-image/body image as shaped by family, friends, media, society, history, lived experiences, etc. I’m looking for smart, accessible, and snappy personal narratives that also offer nuanced analysis of the underlying constructs that affect how we perceive ourselves. Exploring intersectionality of identities is extremely important. [...]

People of Color, Class, Diversity & the White Left

By Victoria Law My great-grandfather was the type of man who refused to get out of bed unless there was breakfast waiting for him. Since he wouldn’t get out of bed to go and work, there was never any breakfast waiting for him. It was a cycle that did nothing to alleviate the family’s poverty. [...]