I joined an important discussion about violence against Black Queer Women on HuffPost Live today. The episode was hosted by Marc Lamont Hill and guests included myself, Darnell Morre, Eboni Rafus, and Irene Monroe.
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This past weekend, I attended and presented a paper at the 41st meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy in Denver, Colorado. My paper was “Acting Mean: Queering Hegemonic Masculinity through the Cultivation of Virtues.” It’s a shorter version of a larger project I am working on. The audience was gracious and
I presented “TEXTnology in the Classroom” at SXSWedu 2014. The workshop was based on my texting experience in my philosophy classes and consisted of sharing best practices on how to use texting in the classroom.
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This pass Sunday, Jason Collins, became the first actively openly gay athlete in the four major sports in the United States when he played for the Brooklyn Nets against the Lakers. However, our limited view of history may have us all wrong about what the historical moment we thought was occurring. In 1976, a
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“The Hip-Hop Fellow” is a look into Producer 9th Wonder time as educator of Hip Hop at Harvard University. The Hip-Hop Fellow gives the 7 billion people who have not attended that prestigious institution a chance to bear witness to this historical moment, where the integration of hip-hop as an academic endeavor is finally accepted as
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Does Masculinities studies sound strange to you? As a feminist I think it’s important that I see not only women as victims of patriarchy but men as well. Masculinities studies aim to examine the latter and so much more. There is a new journal covering work in Masculinity studies. You can visit the PDF version
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Barnard College has a new podcast series called “Dare To Use The F-Word.” Of course F-Word stands for “Feminism”. Podcast titles such as “Perfection”, “Image and Media”, and “Street Harassment” is available for your listening pleasure. More from their website: Dare to Use the F-Word tells the stories of today’s feminists through the art, the
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We would like to think that we are not like our once cold war enemy, Russia. “They” are intolerant and oppressive. And “they” are presently doing an injustice to gay people. But before we start throwing stones from our red, white, and blue glass house, we need to take a look at our own intolerance.
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Michael Sam is a NFL prospect who just came out as gay to the public. If he is drafted, and he will be, this will make him the first openly gay man in the NFL. Questions have been raised, “Is the NFL ready for an openly gay player.” We’ve heard some strange answers to that
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