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Are Men to Be Trusted? Thoughts on Sexual Assault and the Chain of Command
By Bill Patrick This week brought the startling news of the arrest of Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, the officer in charge of the Air Force’s...
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Poem Suite: Home
In our Poem Suites, we publish work by beginning and emerging witers, gathered according to theme. In this Suite, we feature three poets exploring various...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Video: What is Feminism?
By Ashley Yenick During this video, I consulted two students and two professors at Merrimack College. I hand picked these interviewees because they contribute to millennial...
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NRA Vendor Sells Ex-Girlfriend Target That Bleeds When You Shoot It
*Trigger warning* Sometimes I feel like the NRA is actively just trying to lose all the credibility it has left in this world. Just when...
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Book Release: Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels by Sikivu Hutchinson
Over the past several years, the Right has spun the fantasy of colorblind, post-racial, post-feminist American exceptionalism. This Orwellian narrative anchors the most blistering conservative...
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Monica Casper and Heather Turcotte (UConn) on Fucking While Feminist with Jaclyn Friedman (Women, Action and Media)
Check it out here, especially those of you interested in anti-violence work, feminism, college campuses, and activism. Heather Turcotte & Monica Casper: Fucking While Feminist...
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Fear and Convenience
By Anis Gisele “Did he hurt you, in a new way?” —Fear and Convenience, Thao Nguyen And you were finally free to call yourself gay....
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Confession
By Nancy Kricorian Back when I earned my MFA in Poetry at Columbia, the majority of the students were women, and nearly all of our...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Using the 'F' Word as a Queer WOC
By Claudia Chen The other day I was watching student presentations in my African American Women’s History class. One of the students’ research, which focused...
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Op Ed: An Open Letter to the Mainstream LGBT Movement
“There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives.” – Audre Lorde Dear Mainstream LGBT Movement,...
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Spreading the Good Word: "Towards Collective Liberation" by Chris Crass
By Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Have you read Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis and Movement Building Strategy by Chris Crass yet? Well, if you haven’t...
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Despite Apologies from Racist Frat, UC Irvine Black Students Stick to Demands
You might already know that a series of racist behaviors toward Black people recently brought national attention to University of California, Irvine’s (UCI) campus. A...
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It's Open Girl-Meat Season
By Jawahara Saidullah “Kya maal hai.” What good stuff. “Bilkul sahi cheez yaar.” Absolutely, great stuff, man. Maal means, stuff, thing, or merchandise. So does...
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Feminists We Love: Robin McRee Eaton
The first female railroad conductor in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and a single mom to three incredible kids, Robin McRee Eaton lives feminist values with humor, humility,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Seemingly Crazy, Yet Sincere Call for a Bra-less Revolution
By Elvia Lopez Bill Cosby knows that kids say the darndest things. Lying by the pool yesterday, I overheard my little brother tell my rather...
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Mad Science or School-to-Prison? Criminalizing Black Girls
High stakes test question: A female science student conducts an experiment with chemicals that explodes in a classroom, causes no damage and no injuries. Who...
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Tight Places: Cozy or Uncomfortable?
By Kimberly Dark I had a moment of judgment toward my potential seatmate as I walked up the airplane aisle and saw him. I wasn’t...
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In Our Solitude
By Tanwi Nandini Islam Let’s begin with a riddle: What’s something that exhausts itself, yet never disappears? A few answers: Self. Others. Identity. Love. I’m...