Raven Rodriguez
writer, critic, sixth generation new yorker
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Raven-Rodriguez.com
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The Raven Report | Patreon
Writing
Megan Thee Stallion and the Cost of Being a Black Woman Who Loves in Public | by Raven Rodriguez | May, 2026 | Medium
Megan Thee Stallion and the Cost of Being a Black Woman Who Loves in Public | by Raven Rodriguez | May, 2026 | Medium
Megan Thee Stallion and the Cost of Being a Black Woman Who Loves in Public There’s an old American pastime: watching a Black woman rise, clapping as she climbs, and then settling in with snacks …
Closing Rikers, Building Cages: The Geography of Punishment and the Limits of Carceral Reform | by Raven Rodriguez | Apr, 2026 | Medium
Closing Rikers, Building Cages: The Geography of Punishment and the Limits of Carceral Reform | by Raven Rodriguez | Apr, 2026 | Medium
The planned closure of Rikers Island has been offered as a moral horizon, evidence that New York has finally confronted one of its most…
A Prophecy Without a Prophet: America, Israel, and the White Utopia Myth | by Raven Rodriguez | Mar, 2026 | Medium
A Prophecy Without a Prophet: America, Israel, and the White Utopia Myth | by Raven Rodriguez | Mar, 2026 | Medium
The United States’ relationship with Israel is inseparable from the domestic imagination of a white utopia.
Repair is How We Decide What Matters: What Intimacy Taught Me About Justice | by Raven Rodriguez | Feb, 2026 | Medium
Repair is How We Decide What Matters: What Intimacy Taught Me About Justice | by Raven Rodriguez | Feb, 2026 | Medium
I think about this now, as I return to New York in the wake of a painful breakup, for the first time as a single adult, carrying the quiet…
Fuck ICE (But Not the Police): Patriotism, Policing, and the Nostalgic Limits of American Outrage | by Raven Rodriguez | Feb, 2026 | Medium
Fuck ICE (But Not the Police): Patriotism, Policing, and the Nostalgic Limits of American Outrage | by Raven Rodriguez | Feb, 2026 | Medium
Venezuela and the Myth of American Rescue: Why Democracy Always Seems to Arrive on the Heels of Oil | by Raven Rodriguez | Jan, 2026 | Medium
Venezuela and the Myth of American Rescue: Why Democracy Always Seems to Arrive on the Heels of Oil | by Raven Rodriguez | Jan, 2026 | Medium
Venezuela and the Myth of American Rescue: Why Democracy Always Seems to Arrive on the Heels of Oil The United States has never waged war because it discovered a dictator. It wages war because it …
Disability by Design: The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence | by Raven Rodriguez | Dec, 2025 | Medium
Disability by Design: The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence | by Raven Rodriguez | Dec, 2025 | Medium
Jensen Huang, the co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, made a striking declaration: “Smart is about to become worthless.”
The Binary of Innocence: Race, Power, and the Architecture of White Vulnerability | by Raven Rodriguez | Dec, 2025 | Medium
The Binary of Innocence: Race, Power, and the Architecture of White Vulnerability | by Raven Rodriguez | Dec, 2025 | Medium
The Binary of Innocence: Race, Power, and the Architecture of White Vulnerability This piece was originally published in print in the tenth edition of The Combine paper. America organizes itself …
Hunger Is a Border: SNAP Cuts and The Violent Politics of Starvation | by Raven Rodriguez | Oct, 2025 | Medium
Hunger Is a Border: SNAP Cuts and The Violent Politics of Starvation | by Raven Rodriguez | Oct, 2025 | Medium
How deliberate starvation is a global project of domination.
Dancing on the Empire's Altar: When Performance Replaces Disruption | by Raven Rodriguez | Oct, 2025 | Medium
Dancing on the Empire's Altar: When Performance Replaces Disruption | by Raven Rodriguez | Oct, 2025 | Medium
Why the visibility of a Puerto Rican-themed halftime is far from resistance.
The Outside Gaze: A Sixth-Generation Bronx Girl on the Digital Commodification of NYC. | by Raven Rodriguez | Sep, 2025 | Medium
The Outside Gaze: A Sixth-Generation Bronx Girl on the Digital Commodification of NYC. | by Raven Rodriguez | Sep, 2025 | Medium
A sixth-generation Bronx girl on digital colonization.
The Performance of Progress: Ralph Lauren for Oak Bluffs
The Performance of Progress: Ralph Lauren for Oak Bluffs
How Black elitism and nostalgia for the American Dream trick us into mistaking survival for freedom.
The Death of DEI - Progress Isn't Enough.
The Death of DEI - Progress Isn't Enough.
If Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion must die, then who should pull the trigger?
Press
Forbes Interview - Women's History and Liberation
Forbes Interview - Women's History and Liberation
This article features an in-depth conversation with academic, writer, and consultant Raven Rodriguez about women's history, the decolonizing of gender and why there is no liberation without liberating Black women.
Forbes Interview - Raven Rodriguez On ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’ And Learning The Terrain From Elders
Forbes Interview - Raven Rodriguez On ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’ And Learning The Terrain From Elders
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