Why were interracial couples doing the most? Remember the Latine couple who shared their slave-mistress kink with the world? George Floyd protestors did not risk their lives for this.

"I'm not grateful, innit."   During the COVID-19 lockdowns from 2020 to 2021, I discovered the audio social media app, Clubhouse. This happened in the middle of a global rise in nationalism from India to Canada. This included Black Americans who inhabit a bit of a nation within a nation as a minority with a strong sense of linked fate. In these spaces, I became familiar with the term “ADOS.” Political commentator Yvette Carnell and attorney Antonio Moore had already created t

We had just started to get vaccinated and were slowly emerging from lockdown. We were not okay.

Women who cannot run. A woman will be running from danger and will trip over a log in the woods, sand,  an embankment, her own feet, nothing. In "Castaway Diva," nobody questioned why a woman would wear white gym shoes on a rainy day. But I also questioned why no one would interfere seeing a man in a dark raincoat walking quickly towards a woman who is running away with all her might. Whatever happened to see some thing, say something? But she couldn't outrun him. Why? Becaus

In 2019, I gave a keynote speech for the Black Doctoral Network Conference. I decided to tell them the things I wish someone had told me...

"They said that the average power density of many devices had higher levels than guidelines allow."

I am currently on vacation in Chicago. I'm visiting family and friends. I went to a Ukrainian restaurant that was quite delicious called...

A difficult aspect of trying to be a feminist is that Black feminists in the U.S. often overshadow other types of feminists. It seems...

In elementary school, I had created a character named “Fifi La Rouge,” a white woman with blonde hair who would interject random French...

One thing about Korean dramas and gender dynamics is that mothers-in-law are almost always portrayed as terrible people. This resonates...

Imagine you're a young woman whose parents immigrated from Africa. You've decided you want to become an immigration lawyer, and you're...

It’s fall 2024 and we have returned to the asshole K drama lead. I've been watching a lot of K-dramas interchangeably, and I've noticed...

People seem genuinely surprised that the cost of living keeps rising while wages stagnate. However, I want to point out that this is...

"Why do immigrants come here?" is the question uttered by many Americans and others in the Global North. It's the same reason we buy...

Kdramas and South Korean media occasionally displays Latin America. However, when they do so, Latin America-especially South America-is...

"You should be grateful that you're here. " " You 're only here because Black people fought for you to be here." I've heard several Black...

Once you have seen it, you cannot unsee it. I remember when this happened in DP and my friend recently reminded me of it and I can never...

Who me? Eu? Na?

I used to go to church with a fellow academic, Dr. Tiffany Gill, who had a hilarious saying. "Philly will never be great." Philly is...

I brought my Rollator walker to Rio de Janeiro. It takes a lot for me to walk even two blocks. I'm really slow, but I can do it. I...