July 30, 2012 0 3 Reasons Feminists Should Love Hathaway’s Catwoman To date I have seen The Dark Knight Rises twice and I’m scanning my calendar trying to figure out when [...]
July 16, 2012 4 How to Write a Feminist Fairy Tale Previously published at The Writeous Babe Project. Last week I went to my favorite local movie theater not [...]
July 13, 2012 1 The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl: Season 2, Episode 2 In case you forgot to watch last night, here’s the latest episode of The Misadventures of Awkward Black [...]
May 22, 2012 0 Young filmmaker explores African Americans’ relationship with water In 2010 writer and filmmaker Nijla Mu’min came across the story of the mass drowning of six black teens [...]
March 28, 2012 4 ‘Black & Bleu’ Rihanna Sandwich and Other Things That Have Pissed Me Off This Week I try to be a happy black feminist. I really do. But people keep insisting on making me an angry one. Lots of [...]
March 24, 2012 2 A Tribute to Katniss Everdeen, My Feminist Hero (and a few thoughts on the movie) Since I’ve spent months counting down the days until the premiere of The Hunger Games movie it’s [...]
March 6, 2012 2 Team Katniss Fashion As my closest friends (and my students) know, I’m a major Hunger Games geek. I’ve been counting [...]
February 28, 2012 0 Why Sunday Was Still a Winning Night for Viola Davis Viola Davis did not take home the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Help. But Davis still [...]
February 27, 2012 3 How the Oscars Made Me Proud of My Sweet Home Alabama I’ll be honest. I wasn’t looking forward to the Oscars this year. I didn’t watch too many [...]
February 16, 2012 0 “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength” Editor’s Note: The following column was written by journalist and aspiring filmmaker Jaz Gray. Prepare [...]