My name is Queen Jade. I am an award-winning indie filmmaker who happens to be deaf. I am the FIRST Jamaican-American Deaf filmmaker, a pioneer …
White racist woman; Black anti misogyny woman: Mashable’s cover of two very different Twitter storms
The internet forgets and it forgets quickly. It was exactly 9 months ago that Adria Richards was fired for standing up against sexist behavior that …
#sharedgirlhood: all the transphobic, TERFist, white supremacist receipts in one post
For the past week or so there has been a twitter hashtag that generated some attention. The hashtag in question is #sharedgirlhood. Trans* women (both …
Italy denounced for hosing down migrants in cold
via Italy denounced for hosing down migrants in cold – The Malta Independent: Italy’s government has promised an investigation into the treatment of migrants after a …
Study about depression in The Netherlands released today, PoC disproportionally affected
Today, this is making the news in The Netherlands: One in 10 of the Dutch is depressed, 6% take medication From the article: Around one in …
The Advocate Names Pope Francis ‘Person of the Year”
The Advocate Names Pope Francis ‘Person Of The Year:’ LGBT Magazine Recognizes Pontiff Things the Pope (back then when he was known by the more …
January is White Dutch History Month
From mid October till well into December I blogged extensively about the character of Zwarte Piet/ Black Piet and his place within Dutch history and …
A note about these Storifies
I have started to compile some of these public conversations because so much of what I do and write is ephemeral. Today I attended a …
More musings on consent within feminism
Last week I had a long conversation on Twitter about the issue of consent. I posted a Storify with the highlights here. Today comes part …