media analysis | Tasha Fierce

on success, protecting Black women, and ‘what you pay attention to grows’

by Tasha Fierce | Apr 18, 2021 | capitalism, media analysis, musings of a black femme, politics, racism & white supremacy, talkin' greasy, writing on writing

I’m in the midst of writing the proposal for MAGICAL DEPRESSIVE REALISM and I’ve been thinking about mainstream success, what it does to your perspective, what it requires you forsake and leave behind. In the social media microwave background are...

The shape of a memory: surviving sexual abuse outside the bounds of rationality

by Tasha Fierce | Nov 29, 2018 | feminism, magical depressive realism, media analysis

I don’t remember the first time I was raped, but I know it happened. I don’t recall when the memory was lost. I can’t answer #WhyIDidntReport. I do recall remembering exactly what happened, in re-traumatizingly clear detail, two years later: in the...