Work comes out of life. Where else would your work come out of, if not your experience? Being a queer woman is the air that I breathe, and it’s inescapable, and it’s going to be part of the work.

she’s Kafka with a paintbrush, mindful of the nightmares of history and partial to somber, social-realist colors (muddy browns and greens) that hark back to Depression-era art. It is perhaps relevant that her German-Jewish grandparents fled their homeland in 1937, refugees of the Holocaust.

Eisenman wants the different elements in her paintings to hang together and tell a serious, sad-funny story.

“I understand that this is a significant part of black life around the globe,” she continues, “but if all we’re known for is our pain and our struggle, what does that say? I don’t want young people to feel that is the only way they can talk about themselves, through that lens.

Because she’s Nigerian, that shade, says Toyin, “is much deeper than you get in the American South. When I was growing up, our household was very patriarchal. People were happy when I was born, but when my brother was born, the whole village was involved. My father would tell my brother, ‘You have to do this or that because you’re carrying my name.’ My mom would take me aside and say, ‘I don’t care what your father says, you’re carrying my name. You got the Ojih.’ ” In 2015, Toyin officially added the “Ojih” to “Odutola.”

Unlike Kehinde Wiley or Titus Kaphar, who insert an African American subject into an Old Master–style painting to give identity to the black figure, Toyin imagines a contemporary world in which blackness is the norm. She’s more like the artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa, who has said, “I’m trying to make my shit as black as possible and still have you deal with my humanity.”

I don’t believe that people can ever really know what it is like to be someone else

I feel like she doesn’t have the privilege to speak for black people as a whole or for Emmett Till’s family,

Despite this prohibition, in the Dominican Republic people who lack identity documentation and are effectively stateless are denied a range of human rights and prevented from participating fully in society.

People who were wrongly registered as foreigners even though they were born in the Dominican Republic well before the 2004 Migration Law and the establishment of the Register of Foreigners in 2007 and who have, therefore, been retroactively and arbitrarily deprived of their Dominican nationality

“To all of a sudden be told no, you’re not Dominican, it’s very frustrating,” said Elmo Bida Joseph, a 21-year-old student who said he was denied his ID and a copy of his birth certificate because he was born to Haitian migrants.

We really don’t know what’s going to happen to those people

there are nearly 210,000 Dominican-born people of Haitian descent and roughly another 34,000 born to parents of another nationality.

The reaction of Black men to feminism has been notoriously negative. They are, of course, even more threatened than Black women by the possibility that Black feminists might organize around our own needs. They realize that they might not only lose valuable and hardworking allies in their struggles but that they might also be forced to change their habitually sexist ways of interacting with and oppressing Black women. Accusations that Black feminism divides the Black struggle are powerful deterrents to the growth of an autonomous Black women's movement.

When liberal icon Bernie Sanders told supporters, “It’s not good enough for somebody to say, ‘Hey, I’m a Latina, vote for me,’ ” Quentin James, a leader of Hillary Clinton’s outreach efforts to people of color, retorted that Sanders’s “comments regarding identity politics suggest he may be a white supremacist, too”.

The new exclusivity is partly epistemological, claiming that out-group members cannot share in the knowledge possessed by in-group members (“You can’t understand X because you are white”; “You can’t understand Y because you’re not a woman”; “You can’t speak about Z because you’re not queer”). The idea of “cultural appropriation” insists, among other things, “These are our group’s symbols, traditions, patrimony, and out-group members have no right to them.”

Tellingly, a 2012 study showed that more than half of white Americans believe that “whites have replaced blacks as the ‘primary victims of discrimination’.”

Because the Implicit Association Test (IAT) sometimes reveals troubling aspects of human nature, it poses the possibility of causing discomfort.

The IAT measures the strength of associations between concepts (e.g., black people, gay people) and evaluations (e.g., good, bad) or stereotypes (e.g., athletic, clumsy). The main idea is that making a response is easier when closely related items share the same response key.

someone might report smoking a pack of cigarettes per day because they are embarrassed to admit that they smoke two.