Like many others, I’ve been following the aftermath of the recent shooting death of an 18-year old black teenager by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri with a mixture of shock and horror. Mainstream news coverage and my Facebook newsfeed have been appropriately flooded with commentary about systemic racism, racial profiling, civil unrest, and the militarization of the police. As several African American thought leaders have noted, Brown’s death was not an aberration but “just the most recent example of police officers killing unarmed black men.” Continue reading “What Feminists of Color Taught Me In the Wake of the Michael Brown Shooting by Grace Yia-Hei Kao”
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Exploring the F-word in religion at the intersection of scholarship, activism, and community.
Feminism and Religion 