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The Trad Wife Trend: Gender Under Neoliberalism
Recently Nara Smith, a model known for her TikTok content where she posts videos of herself cooking from scratch, did an interview for the Call Her Daddy podcast. At one point, Smith, a 24-year old, married mother of four, vehemently rejects the “trad wife” label, stating that she is a “working mom” and that even…
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Margaret Garner: An Emblem of Black Feminist Thought
This June marks the 32nd anniversary of the coining of the term “reproductive justice” by 12 Black feminists in 1994 at a conference in Chicago. For Black feminists, Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman born in 1834, has long inspired how they understand the mutual constitution of race and reproduction. Garner is an emblematic figure in…
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Pornotroping: Hortense Spillers Theorizing the Captive Body
In November 2025, a TikTok video surfaced showing Karrie Jones, seated in a wheelchair and in apparent pain, in a hospital waiting area. The nurse beside her seemed to disregard both Jones and her mother, Kash Jones, who were pleading for assistance. The incident, which occurred near Dallas, Texas, quickly went viral as commenters across…
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Centering Black Women and Girls in Sexual Assault Awareness
Two weeks ago, Justin Fairfax, former lieutenant governor of Virginia, killed his wife, Dr. Cerina Wanzer, in a murder-suicide at their home. Rather than immediately centering the victim, Fairfax’s high school alma mater, DeMatha Catholic High School, released a statement describing him as a “model student,” making no acknowledgment of his violence. Similarly, some public…
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Intersectionality at Work – A Scholar Interview with Melissa Abad
Below is the inaugural piece in the Blackfeminisms.com Scholar Interview series. The Scholar Interview series aims to center experts in intersectionality and Black feminist thought, across a variety of disciplines and fields, to shed light on critical antiracist and feminist perspectives on a wide variety of issues The Real Problem With ‘Diversity Hires’ Melissa Brown:…
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The Moynihan Report and Black Feminist Thought
Since 2025, I’ve noticed posts on social media platforms like TikTok and Twitter/X criticizing “baby mama culture” among Black people. This discourse ultimately seeks to blame Black women for the subjugation experienced by Black people, particularly in the Global North. Such framing frequently relies on controlling images about Black mothers like the welfare mother and…
