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Is the Self-Care Movement individualist or revolutionary? African culture prioritizes the welfare of the whole over the individual—perhaps too much so. But on the flipside, the individualism I’ve experienced in the US isn’t much better. Is balance between these two extremes even achievable?
Second post for my Love and Afrofeminism series for BITCH Magazine: "That my girl could mindlessly shimmy onto a dance floor even as a gay woman and enjoy the simple pleasure of a dance, go out with her straight friends to bars and not be stared at or called names,…
Melissa Harris Perry (host of NBC Show Nerdland) tweeted that my interview at Ms. Magazine, during which I talk about Afrofeminism, is now one of her favorite online reads. Okay, I can die now.
Love is absolutely a feminist issue, a recurring theme in various parts of the political landscape. But we've grown so accustomed to framing our discussions and ideas for progress around everything but love—instead, facts, figures, statistics, issues, enlightement or problematicness—that I fear we've inadvertently distanced ourselves from the most important…