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Hannah Giorgis
Hannah Giorgis is a Guardian US contributing opinion writer and an organizer working to end violence against girls and women. Follow her on Twitter: @ethiopienne
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Books are prepackaged vacations. They let you explore new worlds at your fingertips and ask only that you steel yourself for what lies within
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To stifle a community slowly, you institutionalize and even criminalize poverty while withholding the resources needed to escape it
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Survivors are seeking alternative paths to justice that don’t require involving a racist criminal justice system
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Art makes visible the pain that buries itself in the cavities that logic and reason alone cannot access
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In California, a new breed of Brownie is learning about social justice instead of sewing, empowering young girls marginalised by the mainstream. Hannah Giorgis reports
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Hannah Giorgis: The internet is my support system. But not all spaces are safe
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Hannah Giorgis: When our humanity is defined not solely by proximity to whiteness or manhood, black people are closer to freedom and justice
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Hannah Giorgis: The hard truth about no justice for Michael Brown is that we must reassess our expectations to create a new kind of peace
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Hannah Giorgis: Ebola is now a stand-in for any combination of ‘African-ness’, ‘blackness’, ‘foreign-ness’ and ‘infestation’ – poised to ruin the perceived purity of western borders and bodies
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After ABC debuted its three-hour block of Shonda Rhimes programming on Thursday, including Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away with Murder, we asked four black women to explain the significance of this TV event
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Hannah Giorgis: Pretending that we exist outside the consequences of blackness is an injustice to ourselves, African Americans and all black people
Hannah Giorgis column I read and write in English, but I still dream in Amharic