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Announcements: Melissa Harris-Perry Has Her Own Show!
By Andrea (AJ) Plaid The yet-to-be-titled show will start on Saturday, February 4, and will air Saturdays and Sundays 10AM to noon. Well, Twitterville wasted no time in helping Dr. Harris-Perry...
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Work It’s Amaury Nolasco Becomes The Face Of His Show’s Problems
By Arturo R. García It’s not hard to imagine that, on some level, actor Amaury Nolasco knew his new show, Work It, would catch flack after his character, Angel, told his friend and fellow job-seeker...
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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Oppressed Brown Girls Doing Things
By Andrea Plaid Madame Owner/Editrix has nicknamed my new position of Associate Editor as “Tumblr-In-Chief” because I mostly curate–with generous help from said Owner/Editrix–that part of the R’s...
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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Scot Nakagawa
By Andrea Plaid Scot Nakagawa I caught anti-racism activist Scot Nakagawa’s online action at Tumblr when an excerpt of his post, “Why I, An Asian Man, Fight Anti-black Racism,” cross-posted at Dominion...
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Keeping Tabs On The Social Justice Blogosphere In The Age Of Google Reader
By Guest Contributor David Zhou Forgive me for anthropomorphizing a website. The announcement that Google Reader would be shutting down hit me like the loss of an old friend with whom I had lately...
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On Lean-ing In
by Latoya Peterson Sheryl Sandberg currently owns the news cycle. All we’ve heard for weeks are critiques of her new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Any possible angle about the book...
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Meanwhile, On Tumblr: Surprise, Surprise! SCOTUS Rules Against Native Americans
By Andrea Plaid Image via pbs.org. As you know, the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) did the One Step Forward/Three Steps Back Dance when it came to rights for marginalized people. The Supreme Court ruled in...
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Race + Comics: Breaking Down Uncanny Avengers’ Continued Racefail
By Arturo R. García This month’s issue of Uncanny Avengers served as the most explicit follow-up to the much-maligned “we are all humans” speech written by Rick Remender in an apparent stab at...
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Announcement: Yuri Kochiyama: Passion For Justice Screening, Panel Discussion...
By Andrea Plaid When Dr. Brittney Cooper started the #paulawontcookit hashtag during the height of Black Twitter dragging Paula Deen for her controversial comments—and my undergrad college ace Dr. Lisa...
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Five Bright Spots Amid The Zimmerman Industrial Complex
By Arturo R. García Several young black men are brought to the stage in a show of unity at a rally seeking justice for Trayvon Martin on July 14 in San Diego, CA. Image by Arturo R. García. It did not...
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Racialicious Links Roundup 8.8.2013: A Black Batman — And More…
By Joseph Lamour Why Batman Can’t Be Black (Blogtown/The Portland Mercury) People don’t like the implication they could be the bad guy on this issue. Racism is bad. That’s axiomatic. Thus, arguments...
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Am I Black Enough, Woman Enough, Trans Enough?
By Guest Contributor Koko Jones; originally published at Koko Jones There are several places where my multiple identities intersect; Black/African American, Native American, Musician, trans woman,...
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On Disability and Cartographies of Difference
By Guest Contributor Wilfredo Gomez, cross-posted from The Feminist Wire I recently returned to my alma mater to encounter a rather peculiar and interesting narrative about my legacy. While interacting...
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In support of The #IAmComics Campaign
By Arturo R. García The author’s submission to #IAmComics If you’ll allow for a moment of first-person writing today, I’m happy and proud to announce that, in addition to being part of the team here at...
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‘Ahead of her time’: Yuri Kochiyama (1921-2014)
By Arturo R. García Yuri Kochiyama, whose pursuit of social justice exemplified intersectionality as much as it did longevity, passed away on Sunday in California. She was 93. “She was definitely ahead...
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Live From IndieCade: Let’s Do Something About It
By Arturo R. García Top row, L-R: Moderator Shawn Alexander Allen, TJ Thomas, Racialicious owner Latoya Peterson. Bottom row, L-R: Catt Small, Ashley Alicea, Fatima Zenine Villanueva. This past weekend...
View ArticleQuoted: Brittney Cooper on Hollaback’s NYC Street Harassment Video
There are actually two parts to this. One is, there are troubling racial politics, but it’s not just about men of color. The other racial politics about this are that white women appear the most...
View ArticleFollow Racialicious At Facing Race 2014!
Racialicious is pleased to be covering Facing Race 2014 from Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 14 and 15. The conference is hosted by Race Forward — formerly known as the Applied Research Center and the...
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The Hollow Promise of “Inclusivity”: Saida Grundy and Boston University
By Tope Fadiran It’s hard out there for white men on college campuses. At least, that’s what American media would have us believe, given its coverage of the current controversy swirling around Dr....
View ArticleThe Netroots Nation Files: Feminist Future
By Arturo R. García [View the story “NN15: Feminist Future” on Storify] The post The Netroots Nation Files: Feminist Future appeared first on Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture.
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