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Hannah Giorgis column

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    I read and write in English, but I still dream in Amharic

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    It’s complicated to be an artist with family spanning multiple languages – my relatives love that I write but think I’m not writing for them
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    The sun is out – so pass me my book and let me dream

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    Books are prepackaged vacations. They let you explore new worlds at your fingertips and ask only that you steel yourself for what lies within
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    Black users on Vine: celebrating blackness 6 seconds at a time

    Hannah Giorgis
    Vine allows for hilarious, multi-faceted, complex and game-changing commentary that is not possible elsewhere
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    We need racial justice and economic justice. We can’t breathe if we can’t eat

    Hannah Giorgis
    To stifle a community slowly, you institutionalize and even criminalize poverty while withholding the resources needed to escape it
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    Many women of color don't go to the police after sexual assault for a reason

    Hannah Giorgis
    Survivors are seeking alternative paths to justice that don’t require involving a racist criminal justice system
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    Black art is dangerous, because it marries the personal and political

    Hannah Giorgis
    Art makes visible the pain that buries itself in the cavities that logic and reason alone cannot access
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    When the mental health system failed me, online communities became my coping mechanisms

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    Hannah Giorgis: The internet is my support system. But not all spaces are safe
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    From Ferguson to New York, women are leading protests because all #BlackLivesMatter

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    Hannah Giorgis: When our humanity is defined not solely by proximity to whiteness or manhood, black people are closer to freedom and justice
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    Beyond 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot': what if there's no indictment in Ferguson?

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    Hannah Giorgis: The hard truth about no justice for Michael Brown is that we must reassess our expectations to create a new kind of peace
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    The problem with the west's Ebola response is still fear of a black patient

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    Hannah Giorgis: Ebola is now a stand-in for any combination of ‘African-ness’, ‘blackness’, ‘foreign-ness’ and ‘infestation’ – poised to ruin the perceived purity of western borders and bodies
  • SCANDAL - ABC's "Scandal" stars Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope. (ABC/CRAIG SJODIN)

    'Shondaland is the most integrated and interesting geography in America'

    After ABC debuted its three-hour block of Shonda Rhimes programming on Thursday, including Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away with Murder, we asked four black women to explain the significance of this TV event
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    The myth of the Angry Black Woman is a scandal of white supremacy

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    Hannah Giorgis: Contrary to the New York Times stereotype of Shonda Rhimes, we are more than props. We are human. We are women. We are not your sidekick
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    Don't watch the Ray Rice video. Don't ask why Janay Palmer married him. Ask why anyone would blame a victim

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    Hannah Giorgis: That we feel entitled to images of a woman being abused speaks volumes not only about the man who battered her, but about us
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    African immigrants must be Ferguson strong: we are black, and we're targets

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    Hannah Giorgis: Pretending that we exist outside the consequences of blackness is an injustice to ourselves, African Americans and all black people
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