Rah! Rah! Roundup

Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. #WhathappenedtoSandraBland

“…like so many Black and brown men in the US, Black women are targets and victims of police brutality, mass incarceration, and racial profiling. And it needs to stop now.”

“In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”

This artist is using “whiteness goggles” to address cultural appropriation in his work.

Read how a racist email caused this grad student to drop out of school.

“While there’s no shortage of sex worker blogs out there, a zine lends itself to the hours of downtime often available on the job to sex workers: in dressing rooms, dungeons, and brothels, there’s a lot of time to read while waiting for clients to show up.”

Single and pregnant? Read why your job could be at risk thanks to some legal language.

Anne Boyer asks what really is “not writing.”

Kate Durbin asks poets, including our very own Marisa Crawford, “what is the relationship between poetry and the selfie“?

Need some “female fronted pop from the past, present and future; from all over the globe“? Check out Shelia B.’s radio show, Sophisticated Boom Boom.

What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments <3