(Un)Conditional Love
I am in love with a white man. He owns his Whiteness. His Whiteness owns him. His Whiteness “never has to speak its name” (Lipsitz 1998:...
Colin Kaepernick Takes a Stand by Taking a Knee
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God,...
Examining the “Invisible Knapsack” of White Transgender Privilege
In 1988, feminist scholar Peggy McIntosh wrote an informal paper about the “invisible knapsack” of benefits that her white privilege...
“I remember the very day that I became colored.”
You read these revolutionary words by Zora Neale-Hurston written in her 1928 essay entitled “How It Feels to be Colored Me,” and you...
Black Bodies, White Classrooms
As a white, cisgendered, heterosexual male, I often find myself pondering my role in analyzing and studying the Black Body in...
Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Challenging Hegemonic, Heteronormative, Horror
Canadian film theorist Robin Wood writes in The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70’s, “The definition of normality in horror films is...