The Crunk Feminist Collection by Cooper, Brittney -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents The Crunk Feminist Collective Mission Statement Hip Hop Generation Feminism: A Manifesto Intro: Get Crunk! PART I: GENDER: @#$% THE PATRIARCHY

Introduction Dear Patriarchy On Black Men Showing Up for Black Women at the Scene of the Crime The Evolution of a Down-Ass Chick How Did I Become a Feminist? Do We Need a Body Count to Count? Notes on the Serial Murders of Black Women What Does Black Masculinity Look Like? Eight Reasons Why Formenism Can Ruin Your Love Life On Being Called Out My Name Jesus Wasn’t a Slut Shamer, or How Conservative Theology Harms Black Women

PART II: RACE AND RACISM: ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER

Introduction Refereeing Serena: Racism, Anger, and US (Women’s) Tennis On Kimani Gray, or To Be Young, Guilty, and Black SlutWalks vs. Ho Strolls Fuck Sears, or When Mall Cops Attack Re-Nigging on the Promises: #Justice4Trayvon The Western Gaze: On Photography in the Two-Thirds World Trayvon Martin and Prison Abolition Working while Black: Ten Racial Microaggressions Experienced in the Workplace For Whites Who Consider Being Allies but Find It Much Too Tuff

PART III: FAMILY AND COMMUNITY: CHOOSING FAMILY

Introduction Reflections on Coming Out and Family The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Sex and Power in the Black Church Fish Dreams Inconceivable: Black Infertility What I Value Most God’s Plan Ain’t Black Mothers Dying Young After the Love Has Gone: Radical Community after the Election Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe What Love Looks Like in Public #CFCTaughtMe: Five Lessons on Life and Relationships on the Occasion of Our Fifth Anniversary

PART IV: GIRLS STUDIES: BLACK GIRLS ARE MAGIC

Introduction Won’t You Celebrate with Me? Meeting Girls Where They Are Baby Hair: For Gabby, Blue Ivy, Tiana, and Me When Everything Hurts: Black Pain, Silence, and Suicide Tries Unbreakable, or The Problem with Praising Blackgirl Strength Olympics Oppression? Gabby Douglas and Smile Politics What If We Were Free? Riley Curry and Blackgirl Freedom

PART V: POLITICS AND POLICY: THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL

PART VI: HIP HOP GENERATION FEMINISM: FEMINISM ALL THE WAY TURNED UP

PART VII: LOVE, SEX, AND RELATIONSHIPS: BLACK FEMINIST SEX IS . . . THE BEST SEX EVER

PART VIII: POP CULTURE: THE RISE OF THE RATCHET

PART IX: IDENTITY: INTERSECTIONALITY FOR A NEW GENERATION

Introduction You’re Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl Does This Make Me Look Fat? Does This Make Me Look Latina? Memories, Survival, and Safety Getting to Happy, or The Myth of Happily Ever After When You’re “The One”

PART X: SISTERHOOD: SHE’S NOT HEAVY, SHE’S MY SISTER

Introduction Antoine Dodson’s Sister: On Invisibility as Violence The Joy(s) of Being a (Black) Woman Is It Ever Okay to Tell a Sister to Go Kick Rocks? Black Women and Friendship Beauty Parlor Politics Remember Their Names: In Memory of Kasandra, Cherica, and Others Gone Too Soon Mama’s Feminism So, Two Feminists Walk into a Bar . . . How Talking to Your Homegirls Can “Liberate” Your Sex Life

PART XI: SELF-CARE: THUS SAITH THE LORDE

Introduction Life Is Not a Fairy Tale: Black Women and Depression These Days I Hate Going to the Gynecologist Back-to-School Beatitudes: Ten Academic Survival Tips Love Me Like You Love Your Lover Loving Ourselves: The Case for Radical Empathy Black Autumn: On Black Anger, Tiredness, and the Limits of Self-Care Disappearing Acts, Unreciprocated Interest(s), and Other Rhythms to My Blues How to Say No and When to Say Yes

Outro Crunk Glossary Contributor Bios Acknowledgments Also by the Feminist Press About the Feminist Press