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In a recent interview on All Things Considered, Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on…
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Like many people, I spent most of Saturday at my computer and on my phone reading and re-tweeting updates about…
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Legal scholar and author Geoffrey Stone delivered the keynote address at the 2017 Woodhull Foundation Sexual Freedom Summit. Entitled, “Sex…
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At a table on the quiet side of the room, five black women are talking. Sex. Helping a friend…
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This week’s essay is posted on The Thought Erotic for its inauguration issue, “We the People Won’t Be…
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I took myself to see Birth of a Nation earlier this week. (I told you I would.) Short review: well-acted…
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How is a church like prison and being incarcerated like belonging to a church? Both have a way of asking,…
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“If a woman says she was raped, I believe her, because for all she has to go through, why would…
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… there is nothing new under the sun. –Ecclesiastes 1:9 When I heard about 50 people at a gay nightclub…
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The morning after Muhammad Ali died, I couldn’t stop thinking about all the times he called himself “pretty.” A corner…
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I’ve been trying to process why Prince’s death feels so much worse to me than Michael Jackson’s or even Whitney…
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Since I see no reason to add to the thousands of think pieces EBONY magazine’s November cover story, “Cosby vs. Cliff,â€Â undoubtedly…
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I came across the above quote last semester in my academic research but returned to it in June, when the…
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Similar to how priests who abused children were shifted from parish to parish but never disciplined. Systemic. https://t.co/87lcN7n0mN — Mariam…
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“He is guilty of self-confessed crimes against women such that we should break his albums, burn his tapes and scratch…
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On the Sunday following the Charleston massacre hate crime, those who hadn’t reached the point where they could forgive the…
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I’m willing to let this one go. Earlier this month, Louisville Metro Police Officer Nathan Blanford shot Deng Manyoun, a…
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Though I am often critical of the Black Church, my criticism comes from a place of love and fondness…
This summer, I’m finally making time to go through Javacia Harris Bowser’s e-course, “How to Write and Have a Life. 
Note: I wrote the following passage for Sowers of Justice 2015 Stations of the Cross, an annual Good Friday walk…
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One of the reasons I stopped working on my memoir was because when an agent strongly suggested I adapt my…
I’m among the million or so people who have seen NFL player Benjamin Watson’s Facebook post about Ferguson, but in…
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Blogger’s note: This post was originally published in the Courier-Journal on Sept. 28, 2014 and edited by Pam Platt. For the…
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“If you had a little girl right now, how would you discipline her?” a friend asked me recently. “I don’t…
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Someone asked me the following question in a Facebook comment when I posted this article on the similarities between domestic…
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