To Fight For Black Lives Is To Be Anti-Police
Since the murders of five police officers in Dallas, TX and three more in Baton Rouge, LA over the recent days, their has been renewed condemnation of the Black Lives […]
Category Archives: Ethnic Studies
Black Kids Don’t Get to Wait to Talk About Police Violence–White Kids Shouldn’t Either
I’m presently between jobs, and am working the summer as a counselor at a music camp for elementary aged kids. It’s an expensive and elite program, and a majority of […]
To a Black Child Learning About the Movement in Fifty Years
I want you to know they despised us above all else watched us turning every corner even as we slept for years we implored them screamed in agony they told us […]
The Wisdom of #ByeAnita: On Political Perfection and Radical Strategy
Earlier this month, Chicago’s state’s attorney Anita Alvarez was decisively voted out of office. Her key role—not merely in covering up the murder of Laquan McDonald, but in regularly defending […]
In the Wake of ‘Formation’: Reflections on Misogynoir and Community Healing
Last month I wrote a response to the song and video ‘Formation,’ after being asked my thoughts repeatedly throughout the week of its release. I was angry—in ways I couldn’t describe […]
When Police Kill Us, We Don’t Need To Apologize
“There are good cops” is a desperately reassuring refrain we hear regularly in the movement for Black lives. Indeed, we are often the ones who say it. When a cousin of […]
Misogyny on the Mag Mile: A Turning Point
Several prominent Chicago youth organizers—all of them Black women, and the majority of them queer—were physically assaulted on Black Friday during the hugely successful shutdown of the Magnificent Mile in […]
Four Unexpected Things We Learned In Lockup: Reflections on the IACP Shutdown
On Saturday, October 24th, I spent nine hours in lockup, along with more than sixty-five of my Black comrades and our allies, at the District 8 police station in Chicago. […]
#FundBlackFutures Action Shuts Down IACP Conference
Happening Now: BYP100 is shutting down the IACP Conference in Chicago. A smaller cohort of allied affinity groups is supporting the action by blocking the major streets in front of McCormick Place. […]
Profane and Sacred: A Review of lil BLK
In the spirit of the Black Arts Movement reimagined in the era of Black Lives Matter, lil BLK, a solo performance by Nic Kay which premiered last weekend at Links […]
Radical Faggot 