Stories by Akiba Solomon

Rape and Red Tape on the Reservation: Why Native American Women Are Fighting For Plan B

Posted on: Mar 23, 2012, Source: Colorlines.com

The GOP's Latest Southern Strategy Transports Us to the 19th Century

Posted on: Feb 29, 2012, Source: Colorlines.com

How the GOP's strategy combines racism and sexism.

On Baby Blue Ivy Carter and the Alleged Ugliness of Blackness

Posted on: Jan 17, 2012, Source: Colorlines.com

Protecting ourselves from society's racist beauty "standards."

Four Ways Obama’s Birth Control Fail Hurts Young Women of Color

Posted on: Dec 12, 2011, Source: ColorLines

What It's Like to be a Young, Black, and Transgender Woman in Washington, D.C.

Posted on: Dec 5, 2011, Source: ColorLines

D.C.’s transgender women of color are carrying the heaviest of loads, but violence and terror and discrimination isn’t the sum total of people’s lives.

What Do Herman Cain and Joe Paterno Have in Common?

Posted on: Nov 12, 2011, Source: ColorLines

How Personhood Mississippi Perverts Black History to Fight Abortion

Posted on: Sep 12, 2011, Source: ColorLines

White Men Impersonating Lesbian Bloggers Want Everything But Burdens

Posted on: Jun 16, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

There's a long history of the struggles of women, LGBT folks and people of color being appropriated by white men--Tom MacMaster and Bill Graber are just the latest.