Hey everybody! We started the Crunk Feminist Collective blog 11 years ago this month! And what a ride it has been. As a Collective, we have lived through the rise and the fall of the feminist blog. But never count a movement’s writers and thinkers out. We’re back and better than ever! I mean we […]
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Putting On the Mask: A Holy Week Reflection
Putting On the Mask: A Holy Week Reflection John 18:38 (cf. Isaiah 59: 12-15) It’s Holy Week in Christendom. This is the week we live for, the week we celebrate our foundational myth, about Jesus the Christ, who ended a three year ministry of radical, feather-ruffling, temple-table-turning love, nailed to a cross, being executed by […]
Crunk Love Letters for Stacey Abrams
It is our tradition at the CFC to write love letters to comrades and friends-in-struggle. Stacey Abrams is certainly that. And because she is a Southern Black girl and the CFC began as a Southern (ATL-based) feminist project, we thought it befitting to send some CRUNK love her way. Dear Stacey, Two years […]
Biological Clocks and Balldrops: A New Year’s Reflection on Black Women’s Time
I spent New Year’s Day re-reading A Wrinkle A Time, a book I first encountered in middle school. I have been invested in re-reading the book both because I’m eagerly anticipating Ava DuVernay’s forthcoming rendition of the movie, with a mixed Black girl as protagonist. But I also wanted to read it because I have […]
Interview with Denene Millner
I am excited to share my interview with New York Time’s best-selling author Denene Millner. Denene is wife and a mother to 18-year-old and 15-year-old daughters and a 25-year-old stepson. She is the creator of the My Brown Baby Black parenting website and the author of the new children’s book Early Sunday Morning. We talked […]
Pussy Don’t Fail Me Now: The Place of Vaginas in Black Feminist Theory & Organizing
#1 – I was on a plane heading to give a talk about the Movement for Black Lives when I felt menstrual blood beginning to leak through the seat of my jeans. Everyone who menstruates knows the dread and fear that happens when they can’t control this bodily function that by our age has been […]
Lemonade, Sweet Tea, and Dirty Laundry on the Clothesline
Homemade lemonade was relief from the humid heat of North Carolina summers. Sweet and sour lemon water always tasted better after it had been sitting for a few days, bathed in the sun so the sugar syrup could fully absorb the lemon pieces floating at the top of a see through pitcher, like a see […]
(Y)our N-Word
Nobody called me a nigga to my face But behind backs and closed doors I am sure I have been called every kind of n-word Especially when I excelled in systems designed for me to fail nigga Or called out bigotry and privilege in classrooms nigga Or won awards white folk swore were theirs and […]
The Most Beautiful Children in the World: No Country For Alyan Kurdi
We can almost hear his wail. Abdullah Kurdi is photographed after he leaves a morgue in Mugla, Turkey on September 3rd. “My kids were the most beautiful children in the world… They are all gone now,” said Mr. Kurdi. His devastation is so palpable that we begin to feel our throats tighten. Alyan, his five […]
Say No to Noteps and Straight Black Pride
This evening, at the National Black Theatre in Harlem, a group of fools who have convened themselves as the Straight Black Pride Movement will be hosting a press conference to shame and antagonize Black queer people under the guise of defending the Black community. Several weeks ago they enlisted the NBT to host a […]