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Zoé Samudzi

Zoé Samudzi, Staff Writer

Zoe is a womanist INvested in black communities and continually DIvesting from the violence of respectability politics and all things pertaining to structural whiteness.

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  • Hillary's Liberal Cowardice Enables Trump's White Supremacy

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    by Zoé Samudzi
    "I’m particularly taken aback by the idea that those families 'melted hearts in the statehouse,' because if black feelings truly mattered, it wouldn’t have taken a terrorist murdering nine black churchgoers to force the hand of South Carolina lawmakers."
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  • "Why Don't You Fuck Women?": On Biphobia and Anti-Blackness

    by Zoé Samudzi
    "For all its supposed liberating and contrarian qualities, the ironic rigidity of queer identities really constrains my ability to freely have sexual relationships with women when and where there might otherwise be interest."
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  • Sharmin Hossain on Caste Apartheid and Cultural Amnesia

    by Zoé Samudzi
    "Bangladeshis are a resilient people. We have survived genocide and ethnic cleansing, and continue to feel the vibrations as we migrate and build Little Bangladeshi communities all over the world."
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  • We Need A Decolonized, Not A "Diverse", Education
    by Zoé Samudzi
    "Diversity is antithetical to critical education, to any politics that ultimately seek to dismantle oppressive systems."
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  • The KKK Are Not and Have Never Been a Progressive Movement

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    by Zoé Samudzi
    "I don’t believe that the majority of the ideologies they express are fundamentally different from the ideologies that founded or are perpetuated by institutions in this country." CW: Descriptions of Supremacist Violence Against Black
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  • An Interview with Writer and Documentarian Siana Bangura

    by Zoé Samudzi
    "I am out here trying to clapback at a society wanting to block my every blessing simply because I am not a white man."
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  • The Case for a Whiteness History Month

    by Zoé Samudzi
    "This country’s education system fails to be culturally inclusive in a way that decenters or characterizes violent domination as anything but normal."
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