In this conversation, we gather on Women With A Vision’s front porch, hallowed grounds of New Orleans Black feminist struggle,…
Building the world that must be
white supremacy
Hindu fragility and the politics of mimicry in North America
By examining contemporary debates around caste in the United States, we illustrate how Hindu fragility—an expression of Hindu supremacist logics—is…
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
This forum explores the white American ritual of Black death. It also ruminates on how scholars of religion reckon with…
Sworn testimony and brittle truths
If the point of an oath is to swear truth, what does it mean if the truth is stacked against…
Complicit scholarship
As participants in the academic project, we must ask: How are we complicit in maintaining the whiteness and maleness of…
Keeping the children captive
“God the Father” has some white supremacist dirty laundry in the United States. The image of the Divine Father is…
Solidarity as the undoing of white supremacy
Solidarity is, in fact, the modus operandus of her entire project. Solidarity is made for Bouteldja through connections that transgress…
On impasse and hypocrisy
Bouteldja’s book is a takedown of white supremacy in its cultural, economic, and political forms. Yet the white supremacy that…
Solitary confinement and the Nation of Islam
Prevailing understandings about race in prison often group black prisoners together, only separating them by gang affiliation. Yet, our essay…
Praying with one’s legs again
To stand there in Sarura wearing t-shirts that read “occupation is not my Judaism” and going through a ritualistic liturgy…