By Miss Mariam

Here are links to some of my favorite published essays and editorials, that I have permission to reprint online, organized by topic. I have cross-published some of these here on Redbone Afropuff, and those links will return you to the blog entries. Also, you can find my faves and other good-but-not-favorites here. Enjoy!

Awesome arts & artists:

• Remembering Zambia (Velocity Weekly/Courier-Journal, June 2010)
• America’s ugly history revealed in August Wilson play (Velocity Weekly/Courier-Journal, Feb. 2011)
• A shoutout to parents who involve their kids in the arts (Velocity Weekly/Courier-Journal, June 2011)

Black women / black women in media images:

• Distorted picture: Black women and reality TV (Velocity Weekly/Courier-Journal Aug. 2009)
• Women mentors are hard to find (Velocity Weekly/Courier-Journal April 2010)
• For Colored Girls Who remember the original (Velocity Weekly/Courier-Journal, Nov. 2010)

Race

• The New Jim Crow (Courier-Journal, Nov. 2011)
• Please don’t take integration for granted (Velocity Weekly/Courier-Journal, Jan. 2011)
• When you extend your hand, open your mind, too (Velcoty Weekly/Courier-Journal, Sept. 2009)

Reproductive Rights:

• The double-edged sword of religion and healthcare (Courier-Journal, Aug. 2011)
• A slippery slope on personhood rights (Courier-Journal, Nov. 2011)
• An open letter to a girl looking for Plan B (Courier-Journal, Dec. 2011)

Social justice, mad as hell, and do-gooder type stuff, uncategorized

• You wouldn’t know a Christian if one were president (Velocity Weekly/Courier-Journal, Sept. 2010)
• Profit vs. People, and Profit is winning (Courier-Journal, Oct. 2011)
• There’s more to fight for than freedom (Velocity Weekly/Courier-Journal, March 2011)
• I’m watching what I eat, for ethical reasons (Velocity Weekly/Courier-Journal, March 2011)
• You call that student financial aid? (Velocity Weekly/Courier-Journal, March 2011)

Women, relationships and gender roles

• There’s an art to a good pickup line (Velocity/Courier-Jounal, Feb. 2010)
• I’m strongly considering marriage (Velocity/Courier-Journal, Feb. 2010)
• Who makes the money? Who raises the kids? (Velocity, Sept. 2010)