ANWO Statement to Black students at UCSB, Concerning Sexual Violence

1 Nov '17

ANWO Statement to Black students at UCSB, Concerning Sexual Violence

November 1, 2017

SANTA BARBARA, CA – We are addressing this letter to the black students at UC Santa Barbara, because we have been confronted with an issue that threatens our community. We are members of the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO), an international organization founded in 2015 as a strategy of the […]

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30 Oct '17

Building ANWO in Sweden Amidst the Contradiction of Swedish Feminism

October 30, 2017

Colonialism

Editor’s note: This article represents only one portion of the many contradictions that face African women in Sweden. In 2012 the Swedish Minister of Culture (a white woman) cut into a cake made to look like a black mammy character, as if she was performing Female Genital Mutilation. This happened […]

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14 Oct '17

Ro’Shawndra VS the University of California Santa Barbara

October 14, 2017

Colonialism

“UCSB washed their hands of me just because I was raped in Isla Vista and not on campus,” …“What does that mean for the resources that I should be allocated appropriately with the advocates that have my back?”. – Ro’Shawndra Earvin This is a quote from an African woman, Ro’Shawndra […]

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5 Oct '17

The Making of an ANWO Comrade

October 5, 2017

Colonialism

Editor’s note: Comrade Asia decided to write this after attending the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s convention, her first convention. She is based in Las Vegas Nevada and currently engaged in building a local branch of ANWO as well as organizing for our first international convention in March 2018. As […]

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19 Sep '17

Pimps and Hoes: The Parasitic Divide

September 19, 2017

Colonialism

Do a google image search for “pimp” and your results will turn up hundreds of pictures of black men, two pictures of Playboy’s Hugh Hefner, and a few of white men dressed in the pimp costume synonymous with what black men wore in 1970’s blaxploitation films. The pimp, in capitalist […]

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21 Jul '17

Britain’s Austerity Crisis, Deepens Poverty for African Women

July 21, 2017

Blog, Colonialism

Editor’s Note: Our use of “African” is inclusive of all black people regardless of where we were born. It is important for us to note this for UK readers as there is continued efforts to further segregate African people by using terms like “Black Caribbean,” “Black African,” “Black British” and […]

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