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Jennifer Nash: Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality
This article examines the consolidation of love into a black feminist politics during second-wave feminism. By reading love-politics as...


Nirwal Puwar: 'Fish in and out of water: a theoretical framework of race and the space of academ
Abstract: Although the numbers of people of colour working in academia as staff has increased over recent years (Carter et al, 1999),...


Kristie Dotson: ‘Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing’
Abstract: Too often, identifying practices of silencing is a seemingly impossible exercise. Here I claim that attempting to give a...


Patricia Hill Collins: 'Toward a New Vision: Race, Class and Gender as categories of analysis an
Abstract: Audre Lorde’s statement raises a trouble-some issue for scholars and activists working for social change. While many of us have...


Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’
Abstract: Some of the most radical criticism coming out of the West today is the result of an interested desire to conserve the subject...


Audre Lorde: 'The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle The Masters House'
Abstract: I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for the Humanities conference a year ago, with the understanding that...


Audre Lorde: 'The Uses Of Anger'
Abstract: Racism. The belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance, manifest and...


Margaret Atwood: 'Am I a Bad Feminist'
Abstract It seems that I am a "Bad Feminist." I can add that to the other things I've been accused of since 1972, such as climbing to...


Susan Sherwin: 'Feminist Ethics and the Metaphor of AIDS'
Abstract: This paper looks at a range of metaphors used within HIV/AIDS discussions and research in support of the claim that...


Rebecca Tuvel: 'In Defence of Transracialism':
Abstract: Former NAACP chapter head Rachel Dolezal's attempted transition from the white to the black race occasioned heated controversy....
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