Thoughts on Margaret Atwood’s “A Handmaid’s Tale”: Part 2

Writing is world-making, and speculative fiction and science fiction are genres of literature that are most telling of the writer’s …

Thoughts on Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

So I’m (re)reading Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and wondering what the story would be like if Of-fred had been …

Black Bodies, Black Holes: Regarding Eve Ensler’s Colonialist and Messianic Fantasies

Notes: (1) I define “woman” to mean anyone who self-identifies with the term- regardless of assigned sex at birth or …

Anti-Blackness in the Anti-Trafficking Movement: “Modern-Day Slavery” and the Erasure of Racial Slavery

I read this passage in Tryon P. Woods’ 2013 article entitled, “Surrogate Selves: Notes on Anti-Trafficking and Anti-Blackness”: “…the anti-trafficking …

Currently Reading: 2 December 2013

Tryon P. Woods – “Surrogate Selves: Notes on Anti-Trafficking and Anti-Blackness” (2013) Abstract: This essay explores the discursive production of black …

Anti-Blackness as a Form of BioPolitics: Remembering Renisha McBride and Jonathan Ferrell

Renisha McBride. Jonathan Ferrell. Remember these names. To be Black in America is to inhabit a body that is always …

The (Bio)Politics of Respectability: Thoughts on the Theater of Non-Violence

“Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?” – …

Black Bodies, Black Pain: (In)difference, Disparities in Medical Care, and the Legacy of Dysaesthesia Aethiopis

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” – Zora Neale Hurston A study by Dr. Robert Fortuna of the University …