Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.

Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.