Farah Tanis
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The War On Poverty Has Been Fought By Black Women For Centuries: A Brief Historical Context
The war on poverty has been fought by Black women in the United States for centuries, beginning with their resistance to the wholesale exploitation of their physical and reproductive labor as slaves. At the start of the twentieth century, pervasive, overt racial and gender discrimination barred Black women from most jobs, denied them equal education,…
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Towards an Explicit, Intentional and Widely Expanded Black Feminist Vision
Towards an Explicit, Intentional and Widely Expanded Black Feminist Vision Author: Farah Tanis I developed this document in the Fall of 2012. Right around the time I was, as I usually am, consumed with writing, editing, producing Mother Tongue Monologues which that year, was not only to focus on the issue of rape and historical…
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To Our Sisters, Morehouse
Previously published in The Feminist Wire, May 21, 2013. Author: Farah Tanis, Kalima DeSuze and Nikki Patin. To Our Sisters, To those who have survived sexual assault or any other form of violation along the continuum of categories of sexual violence reserved primarily for women, female body or not, we at Black Women’s Blueprint write…