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Short Story: "Small Change"
By Meg Mundell The woman’s blink rate tells him she’s nervous: almost once per second, four times the normal count. Jack knows a touch of...
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Western Novelist Paints a Racy Portrait of Middle Eastern Women in "Stoning the Devil"
By Jill Di Donato Stoning the Devil, a recent collection of interconnected stories set in the United Arab Emirates by writer Garry Craig Powell, dismantles the stereotype of...
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Untangling the Knots: Understanding the Hair Politics of Black Women (Revisited)
By Mazuba Haanyama My central aim involves the politics of bodily performance, in negotiation with shifting realities of a post-Apartheid context, where constructions of gender,...
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On Mistreating Female Athletes
By Allison Javors and Wade Davis, II I fell in love with Women’s College Basketball in 1993. I can remember watching Sheryl Swoopes score 47...
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Introducing: Harsha Walia
Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver (Indigenous Coast Salish Territories) in Canada. She has been active in anti-racist, migrant justice, Indigenous...
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Introducing: Brooke Elise Axtell
Brooke Elise Axtell is an award-winning singer, songwriter, poet and performing artist from Austin, Texas. She is the Founder of SHE:Survivor Healing + Empowerment, a healing...
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Introducing: Monica Torres
Monica Torres is an English and American Studies major who concentrates in Latina/o Studies and is writing her way into a career. As a college senior...
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Op-Ed: Where Femen Has Gone Wrong
By Mohadesa Najumi Femen is a feminist protest group founded in 2008, based in Ukraine. They received international recognition due to their direct and somewhat extreme methods of action....
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Andrea Plaid on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show
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Feminism & Me: Name Change, for Love Actually
By Nilofar Ansher Does choosing to take on your husband’s name play into the patriarchal injunctions against women’s selfhood? What follows are questions re: notions of...
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Feminists We Love: Leigh Ann van der Merwe
Leigh Ann van der Merwe was born in 1982 in Ugie, Eastern Cape of South Africa. Growing up as a gender questioning person, she struggled...
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Cynthia Wachenheim and the Impossible Terrain of Motherhood
By Alison Piepmeier As Keira Williams wrote here recently, Cynthia Wachenheim killed herself—and attempted to kill her son—because she felt that she’d been a terrible...
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Poetic Justice: Drake and East African Girls
By Safy-Hallan Farah I am an East African Girl. A couple years ago, one of my friends told me that being an East African meant I’m...
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Three Poems
By Ari Banias Some Kind of We These churchbells bong out one to another in easy conversation a pattern, a deep ringing that...
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Confessions of an Anglo Mariachi Musician
When my partner’s father, Saul, first played for me a recording of ranchera singer Miguel Aceves Mejía, I instantly fell in love with his voice....