Love is often understood as a transformative political practice, subconsciously or not. This is through the ambiguity with the term “love.” The issues with relying on an abstract concept like love as a reference point or call to action is that the way each person defines love is often relative to how others have defined […]
The film (A)Sexual focused on the formation of the group “AVEN,” which aims to promote the visibility and education of asexuality in the mainstream. What was apparent in the film was the desire to categorize or quantify the group in order to promote solidarity. Categorization of a group, however, can be destructive to the goals […]
Gayatri Spivak points out the skewed representations of marginalized groups in popular media in the piece Can the Subaltern Speak?. Spivak focuses on the feelings and lived experiences of these groups which are often portrayed incorrectly in the mainstream. Spivak’s analysis often harkens back to the question: “can the subaltern speak?” More often than not, the […]
As Beyoncé opens the flood gates, steps out of her baptism, and emerges onto the streets, she leaves a less-than-perfect New Orleans and enters a new, constructed portrayal of a topic New Orleans in what is most obviously a Hollywood set. It is garnished with set props and extras to give the illusion of reality. […]
Season 18 of Big Brother was controversial at best. It premiered during one of the most tense sociopolitical moments in recent American memory. Consequently, issues of race, feminism, and intersectionality—especially hot-button issues at the time (and at the time of writing this post)—were simply unavoidable. The two black women in the show—Da’Vonne Rogers and Zakiyah Everette—were the […]
This video pertains to Kimberlé Crenshaw’s writings about the condition of black women and intersectional feminism and Cathy Cohen’s piece about queer politics. As mentioned in this video clip (and as we did in class), black women stand at a unique intersection in which they fall into two distinct subsets of minority: black and female. Thusly, […]
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