Category Archives: Violence

Not that Kind of Dr.

Posted on April 15, 2013 by sheridf
22 comments

She has a substance abuse issue, she has anxiety disorder, she had an abortion during the semester (did not tell parents), she experienced sexual abuse by older female family members, she experienced being homeless (on her on) before coming to college, she is escaping a dangerous neighborhood and has lost several friends to gun violence, she has been on anti-depressant medication, she experienced physical abuse by her father, she is having major financial trouble, he is struggling and caring for his mother, he has gone without meals and shelter during college, she has struggled with peers pressuring her about weight, …Read more »

Category: Academia, Body, Pedagogy, Relationships, Self-Care, Uncategorized, Violence |

From the Margins to the Mainstream: In Defense of Henry Enuta & Other Intersex People Around the Globe

Posted on March 28, 2013 by crunkadelic
7 comments

A Guest Post by Sean Saifa Wall On March 26th, 2013 in Sapele, the Delta State of Nigeria, Pastor Henry Enuta was physically stripped and humiliated in public because he is an intersex person.  According to news reports, he was almost killed by a lynch mob before being taken into custody by police.  Most of the headlines covering this story grossly refer to Mr. Enuta as a “hermaphrodite” because he has genitals that are characteristically male and female.  To sensationalize this story and humiliate Mr. Enuta even more, media outlets have published pictures of him bare chested and with torn …Read more »

Category: Activism, Gender, LBGT*QIQTSAA, Sexualities, Violence | Tags: , , ,

On Kimani Gray—Or To Be Young, Guilty, and Black

Posted on March 19, 2013 by crunkadelic
16 comments

 **Trigger warning for violence**   I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around the situation with Kimani Gray, but it just doesn’t make sense. I mean, considering the unceasing frequency of U.S. American police brutality, the story is “simple” enough. Ten days ago, sixteen-year-old Kimani, known as KiKi to his loved ones, was out late, returning from a gathering. While out in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, Kimani and his friends were approached by two men, apparently plainclothes undercover police officers with records of brutality and excessive force, who sidled up in an unmarked van. While those close to Kimani claim the …Read more »

Category: In the News, Race, Uncategorized, Violence | Tags: , , ,

Trigger Warning – How to Love?: Thoughts on Wayne’s “Emmett Till” Lyrics and More

Posted on March 1, 2013 by moyazb
10 comments

By CFs Moya and Whitney We’d initially planned to post this the monday after the Oscars but other things were more pressing. *Trigger Warning for expletives, misogyny, and violent lyrics*   In the remix to Future’s Karate Chop, Lil Wayne sings the “very unfortunate” (really, Fader?) lyric that compares sex to the beating of Emmett Till. Pop a lot of pain pill’ ‘bout to put rims on my skateboard wheel’ beat that pussy up like Emmett Till “I just couldn’t understand how he could compare the gateway to life to the brutality and punishment of death,” said Aricka Gordon Taylor, …Read more »

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Django Unchained and Why Context Matters

Posted on January 6, 2013 by crunkadelic
21 comments

Some spoilers ahead, but mostly I’m  just feeling all my feelings… Growing up, I had to deal with my mother’s love for Westerns. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen The Outlaw Josie Wales. One of the many joys of expanded basic cable (besides the Cooking Channel, of course) is that I get Encore Westerns. Between that and reruns of Walker, Texas Ranger, I know that when my mama comes to visit she will be thoroughly entertained. I don’t get her love for the genre. I mean, I get it on one level. I know my mother appreciates …Read more »

Category: Film & TV, Patriarchy, Pop Culture, Race, Violence | Tags: , ,

A Theory of Violence: In Honor of Kasandra, CeCe, Victoria, Savita and Anonymous

Posted on January 4, 2013 by eeshap
48 comments

**trigger warning** A few weeks ago, a young Indian woman went to the movies. On her way home she took a bus on which she was raped and brutally assaulted by six men. We don’t know the name of this 23-year-old student.  We do know that  she was tortured so badly that she lost her intestines and needed numerous operations. Six people – including the bus driver – have been arrested. On Friday, December 28 she died. I don’t know her name. I don’t have an adequate response, but I feel I should say something. Because I was born in …Read more »

Category: Activism, LBGT*QIQTSAA, Patriarchy, Politics, Race, Violence |

Remember Their Names: In Memory of Kasandra, Cherica & Others

Posted on December 3, 2012 by rboylorn
83 comments

I am sure that by now many of you know the name Jovan Belcher.  If you didn’t know his name (as I didn’t) before this weekend, you know it now.  He is the Kansas City Chiefs player who shot and killed his girlfriend before taking his own life on Saturday.  Headlines and news stories have focused on the tragedy from the lens of the perpetrator (including speculation of potential brain trauma, his involvement, as an undergraduate, in a Male Athletes Against Violence initiative, and his standing as an allstar athlete), in some ways dismissing or overshadowing the lens of the victim, …Read more »

Category: Relationships, Violence | Tags: , ,

Armed and… Ambivalent?

Posted on October 18, 2012 by wpeeps
7 comments

Let’s begin with a confession: I was born and raised in the great state of Texas and prior to two weeks ago, I had never fired a gun.  That will certainly be surprising to some folks as Texas often invokes images of shotguns, six shooters and gun-toting cowboys.  For me, however, Texas is about home, family, the State Fair and where my own brand of quirky country makes perfect sense.  While, like the rest of the country, I grew up in a pervasive gun culture, there was not one in my immediate family.  I didn’t grow up around hunting trips, …Read more »

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