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Brittney Cooper
Brittney Cooper teaches at Rutgers University. She has written on hip-hop feminism and is the author of Beyond Respectability and Eloquent Rage.
Why I came back around to repentance
First I needed to meet a progressive, gracious God.
November 8, 2021
How Michelle Obama subverted respectability politics with a ponytail
If you weren't looking for it, you might have missed her act of resistance at Trump's inauguration.
February 22, 2018
Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin, and Octavia Butler imagine a new future
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
April 25, 2017
Jesus of the resistance: Black Lives Matter symposium
The BLM movement has issued a clarion call to the church, the black church in particular, to affirm a theology of resistance, not respectability. This means reckoning with who Jesus is.
March 3, 2016
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