Author: Latisha McDaniel Grife

‘Celebrate the activist:’ Stonewall’s message

Posted by Latisha McDaniel Grife | Jun 10, 2019 | Columns, 2019, Archives, BIPOC, Illinois, Iowa, June 2019, LGBTQ+, Social Justice, Topics, Women

With the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising will be plenty of...

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Blocking the wrong people: back in Facebook jail

Posted by Latisha McDaniel Grife | Apr 23, 2019 | Social Justice, April 2019, Archives, BIPOC, Columns, Eastern Iowa, Iowa, Politics and Voting, Topics

In March, Facebook announced a new ban on white nationalist, white separatist, and white...

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Don’t fear failure in intersectionality

Posted by Latisha McDaniel Grife | Mar 17, 2019 | 2019, Archives, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, March 2019, Personal Growth, Social Justice, Women

Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw first coined the term “intersectionality” in the late 1980s to describe the...

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Black activism and ‘Facebook jail’

Posted by Latisha McDaniel Grife | Feb 24, 2019 | Social Justice, 2019, Archives, BIPOC, Columns, February 2019

Dec. 16, 2017: Reported by a disgruntled person for a 90-day-old post about a bag of crackers....

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Being black in ‘progressive’ Iowa City

Posted by Latisha McDaniel Grife | Feb 17, 2019 | Social Justice, Archives, BIPOC, Columns, December 2018, Eastern Iowa, Iowa

After living in the South most of my life, I decided to leave Texas back in 2012, decidedly headed...

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