Exorcism With Better Manners
Here I want to follow a different thread — not the question the preacher couldn't answer, but the answer the whole church is about to offer instead, the one we will all applaud, the one that will not repair a thing.
Indhira M Udofia
Healed From What?
A question was asked at the 65th Annual Session this week, and it is still standing.
The Day I Learned I Was a Girl
The Day I Learned I Was A Girl: Black Girlhood, Purity Culture, and the Architecture of Containment
An Essay for Webwork Dispatches
I. The Hill
The hot Georgia sun baked the asphalt of the apartment complex on Banneker Ave. The air was thick, filled with the exasperated sighs of bored
Y'all Don't Hate Men Enough for Me
Dr. Cerina Wanzer Fairfax was a dentist. She had cameras in her own home because she was afraid. This essay rides the haint of the American god — civic and domestic — that requires Black women's silence as its condition of worship.
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