By Darlena Cunha Welcome to the UFC’s (Unified Feminists Championship) main event tonight, folks. Refereeing this good match is the esteemed bell hooks, known for...
Mimi Schippers is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Tulane University, where she teaches Polyqueer Sexualities, Gender & Society, The Sociology...
By Sayantani DasGupta The Abused Goddesses of India. The advertisements, created by Mumbai-based ad firm Taproot India, have been making the rounds – not only...
By Ravon Ruffin and James “JP” Miller Do gentlemen really prefer blondes or has a history of fetishization of “the blonde” by media made it more...
By Wendy Staley Colbert Push open one of the paneled, double doors leading into my bedroom and you’ll see angled against the corner a 19th-century-style,...
By Sun Devils Against Sexual Assault President Michael Crow, Last week, we learned Executive Vice President and Provost Betty Phillips will be leaving Arizona State...
Andria Nacina Cole I imagine there are many feminists who would like to mourn an abortion but are afraid to do so, because to admit...
“Darnell, I don’t know if I can do this.” It was July 13. The Zimmerman verdict had just been read. Not guilty. My heart, body,...
A workshop was held at the University of Arizona on September 7, 2013, called “LoveMaps for Middle School: Nurturing Digital Activism for Social Justice.” This...
By Karima Amin It has taken me a long time to say those words and really mean them. At age 66, loving ME is a...
By Roberto E. Alejandro In a scene from 1952’s High Noon, Gary Cooper’s Marshal Kane enters the town parish in the hopes of recruiting deputies...
By Linh Hua In July 2008, my last formal teacher was brutally murdered. The formulation of that sentence—the recognition of that particular loss—only just recently...
By Laura Phelps If you’re an English language teacher, like me, you’ll be familiar with the concept of adjacency pairs. These are call-and-response phrases that...
By Rev. Earle J. Fisher Sadly, it seems that love has become synonymous with cheap and self-centered lust. Radical individualism has overridden communal and corporate compassion....
By Rashida Harrison To be a feminist, for me, is a work of love. However, it was not until I wrote my dissertation, drawing on...
By Nicole Burres of SMASH Patriarchy and Rape Culture Nicole Burres, a member of SMASH Patriarchy and Rape Culture, asked a series of people about...
By Stacey Balkun Love note for Marianne Moore, 1887-1972, American modernist poet and baseball fan. Marianne—I’m running out of time. I’m reading you again, marking...
By Andre E. Johnson The most radical love is self-love. In fact, I suggest that in order to love others, one must be able to...