Tag Archives: Harriet Jacobs

A Reading List is Not a Syllabus, part II

Posted on June 14, 2020 by Sharyn

For the first book post in this series about the anti-racist reading list, I’d like to discuss Harriet Jacobs’ 1861 book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which you can find and read for free on the Internet. … Continue reading →

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White People: We Don’t Need to be Everywhere

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Sharyn

This is a post directed at fellow white people – I want to talk a little bit about spaces created expressly for people of color (POC), and why we need to stuff any objections to these kinds of spaces. I … Continue reading →

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