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I’m gonna make a thread of all my favorite readings from the semester and try and find links that are easily accessible because some of these readings are soooo good.
Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: https://loveharder.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/andrea-smith.pdf
Putting Hypersexuality to Work:
Black Women and Illicit Eroticism
in Pornography http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.885.321&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Black Women and Illicit Eroticism
in Pornography http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.885.321&rep=rep1&type=pdf
“One Time for My Girls”: African-American Girlhood,
Empowerment, and Popular Visual Culture https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12111-012-9217-2
Empowerment, and Popular Visual Culture https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12111-012-9217-2
shoutout to the nigga that called me a bird for stating that Black women are breadwinners fro their families. I hope him and his econ degree find a way to this article https://www.epi.org/blog/african-american-women-stand-out-as-working-moms-play-a-larger-economic-role-in-families/
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex:
A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination
Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf (if you're gonna say the word intersectionality, you should read about it first)
A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination
Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf (if you're gonna say the word intersectionality, you should read about it first)
http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html (just because everyone should read the Combahee River Collective Statement)
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1578&context=faculty_scholarship
This is a good article on reproductive labor & how it is racialized and classed, choice feminism, and government intervention.
This is a good article on reproductive labor & how it is racialized and classed, choice feminism, and government intervention.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=facpub
great article critiquing Roe v Wade and choice feminism, while framing for this critique within organizing around reproductive justice
great article critiquing Roe v Wade and choice feminism, while framing for this critique within organizing around reproductive justice
Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/464747.pdf discusses the gender construction of Black people and how this has impacted familial connections and parentage, including a critic of the Moynihan Report. There is also a discussion of the sexualization of Black bodies.
