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Talking Vaginas and Football Heroes: Gender, Race and Advertising
Summer’s Eve has pulled its controversial “Hail to the V” ads amidst enormous criticism from feminists, bloggers, YouTube watchers and…well, just about everybody. Thank goodness...
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“Feministing” Bernini: What Italian Art Taught Me
By Keri Day How might art both reflect complex social realities and inspire social realities to be more radically inclusive and complimentary of human flourishing?...
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A Prophet in Exile: A Personal Meditation on James Baldwin
By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou After the re-election of George W. Bush, I was done with America. Less than a year into Bush’s second term, I...
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Dial M for Murdoch and Mayhem
The pathways into the Murdoch scandal are so numerous that a single writer knows from the outset of any attempt to address it that his...
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‘Keep Your Sorry’: On Slavery, Marriage and the Possibility of Love
Recently, the Iowa based organization, The Family Leader, apologized for a controversial reference to slavery in their “Marriage Vow,” a document that it created to...
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Featured Poet: Stephanie M. Pruitt
Ode to the Hyphen ____________ No dash, minus sign or broken line, you fill / and make continuous until there is no pause / for...
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Sex, Parenting, and Feminism
A few days ago, my partner Bill walked into our older daughter’s room, where the clunky desktop Mac is located, and to his shock and...
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On Her Birthday: Ida B. Wells
Last Saturday marked Ida B. Wells’ 149th birthday. On July 16, 1862, a few months before the Emancipation Proclamation and three years before the Thirteenth...
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"Honored to Be One of His Intellectual Offspring": My Tribute to Dr. Manning Marable
By Zaheer Ali On Thursday, May 26, 2011, Columbia University hosted a public celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Manning Marable. My complete remarks*...
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Poet Spotlight: Rickey Laurentiis
Mood for Love ____________NEW ORLEANS, LA ____________AUGUST, 2005 ______1. (There I go.) I am the man / stepping up to the water. I am...
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Still Colored: Education, Evolution and the NAACP
Principle inspired by Pandwe Gibson en cuba when asked about the challenge a godless country he said education is our religion home in the precinct...
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The Pink Days: Living Happily Ever After the New York State Gay Marriage Bill?
By Darnell L. Moore Soon are the days when progressives (and, neoconservatives alike) will deploy the Empire State’s Marriage Equality Act as a case for...
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Food is a Feminist Issue
Recently the United States Department of Agriculture announced that new public health campaigns would abandon the food pyramid. The USDA food guide pyramid was originally...
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Writer Spotlight: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Food-Related Flashes I have reached a lifetime low. In this very moment, I sit perched on the edge of a bathroom counter with no soap,...
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Two Exhibits, One Film, and the Pleasures of Gertrude Stein
By Sharon J. Kirsch When Gertrude Stein comes to the United States, she does so in a big way. In 1934, Stein, who had spent...
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Queering Democracy and Christianity
By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou A few years ago, I interviewed to serve as the Senior Minister of a church in the Bronx. I was...
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Strauss-Kahn, Domestic Immigrants and Money, Power, Respect
See I believe in money, power and respect. First you get the money. Then you get the motherf–kin’ power. And after you get the f–kin’...
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The Meaning of the 4th of July, 2011
Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are to-day, rendered more intolerable by...