I hear you, and you are not alone. I know what it feels like to step into academe, to face students and faculty who don’t look like you and give you the vibe of “unwantedness.” (Sorry grammarly, I am not going to change this word because yes, I am saying unWANTEDness. We are sometimes…
Tag: cultural critique
My Blackness Had Become A Usual Prism
My blackness had become a usual prism while my maleness sat on the sideline in its innocent slumber. It was relatively easy to write about the anger and pain of racism relating to Ted Wafer. Wafer was a white man who murdered Renisha McBride in late 2013. She was a young African American woman who…
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