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Irene Monroe

A CIVIL DISCUSSION IN AN UNCIVILIZED WORLD

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted December 15, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

McDowell wondered if the guys had a right to speak like that on a train “where people didn’t choose to be in that space for that sort of speech.”

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: Cambridge, CCTV, First Amendment, free speech, Irene Monroe, Trump

WHY BLACK FOLKS ARE THE MOST FORGIVING

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted October 30, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Op-Ed

Offering absolution is a personal matter. However, as one whose identity intersects several marginal groups—black, female, lesbian—I must also ask the question posed by Hawes: Who benefits from my forgiveness?

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Amber Guyger, black forgiveness, Botham Jean, forgiveness, Irene Monroe

NO HART: THE FOLLOW-UP

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted January 15, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

When DeGeneres invited Hart to her show at the start of this year, she provided a much broader platform for Hart to explain his nonapology for prior public homophobic statements.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: Ellen, Irene Monroe, Kevin Hart, LGBTQ, Oscars

AN EMERGING CANON FOR LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted October 16, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Ever since Stonewall, LGBTQ history has been whitewashing itself. It’s time we challenged that.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Alain Locke, and Richard Bruce Nugent, Audre Lorde, Bayard Rustin, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Essex Hemphill, Irene Monroe, Joseph Beam, Langston Hughes, LGBTQ History Month, NYC, Pat Parker, riots, Stonewall, Wallace Thurman

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