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(Why) Does It Matter?: Raven Symoné’s Quiet Coming Out 22 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
As a close-enough-to 80’s baby I knew Raven Symoné as adorable Olivia on The Cosby Show. She was like the new Rudy, a yellow skinned toddler beauty to share banter and cute humor with Cliff once his...
Moving Forward 20 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
Dear Readers, We have been moving through a season of transition here at the CFC. We are choosing to be transparent with you, our community of readers, about these transitions because we are accounta...
On Leaving The CFC 12 Aug 2013 | 04:02 pm
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr. One of my main growing edges as a person is being a recovering people pleaser. Blam...
lovers rock: the crunk feminist mixtape series 31 Jul 2013 | 03:14 pm
Lovers rocking at Brooklyn Loves MJ in 2010 I refuse to cede this summer to cruelty. I have rubbed the roof of my mouth raw with pomegranate hard candies. I have learned how to take rapid-fire self...
Trayvoning and Distance: Whiteness and the Problem with Pronouns 25 Jul 2013 | 05:45 pm
He distinctly remembers, some decade or so ago – much younger, more rigid and sanctimonious then – saying, “we do not want them to think we accept their sin.” New Spirit of Penn, the University of Pen...
Loving Ourselves: The Case for Radical Empathy 22 Jul 2013 | 08:01 pm
It’s been a rough past few weeks, hasn’t it? Between the SCOTUS rulings, Zimmerman trial, another recent discovery of a serial killer who has targeted Black women, and the general tomfoolery of white ...
The Time Isn’t Right, But It Is Now: Processing Our Anger for Trayvon the Black Feminist Way 15 Jul 2013 | 07:37 pm
I am still angry that Trayvon Martin’s murderer is a free man. I know many of you are still reeling, too, and that you share my sense of despair and helplessness. Every time I see George Zimmerman’s d...
Reproductive Injustice and the ‘War on Women’ or, An Ode to the Intersections 11 Jul 2013 | 09:50 pm
These days, it’s hard to read something in regards to feminist activism without hearing the phrase “war on women.” Despite important and sharp critiques regarding the limitations of the phrase, it con...
this is how we do it: an independence day mix 3 Jul 2013 | 06:04 pm
Josephine Baker at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Josephine Baker famously fled the U.S. for the reprieve from racism post World War I France provided. She called France her home f...
I Want New Dreams: On Rachel Jeantel and Citizenship 1 Jul 2013 | 05:30 pm
There was a friend I had once and we spent – in my 20/20 hindsight perhaps – too much time together. Meeting my last year of undergrad, our camaraderie, our communion, genuinely moved me deeply. Even ...
