By Claire Askew for Steve I almost can’t help it. Sometimes it just comes fizzing up through me — the white noise of lightning rattling...
By Stephanie Gilmore -with mil gracias to Cherríe Moraga To keep back the cold I...
By Stacey Balkun . ..Love note for Sally Ride, 1951-2012, American physicist and astronaut ..who joined NASA at age 32 and became the first American woman...
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By Anwar Uhuru Two years ago at a conference I met a man who changed my life. We were both in the audience and the panel...
By Marcie Bianco and J.T. Roane TFW Collective Member, Darnell L. Moore, delivered a talk titled, “What Freedom Feels Like: On love, empathy and pleasure in the...
By Aaron Talley In this era of deep political polarization and the seclusion offered by social media, one of the biggest hindrances to social change is...
By Candy Taaffe August 9, 2009 Finally official. . The love and mutual respect is what inspires the truth, ………….and the desire ………….to make happen...
By Celeste Chan and Margaret Rhee Dear future ones: . They will say we have done nothing. ……….That we have no one, …………………no history, no...
By Anamaría Flores In a white male supremacist heteronormative puritanical judeo-christian culture such as the one that characterizes the united states, the most revolutionary act...
Layli Maparyan is the Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of The Wellesley Centers for Women, one of the nation’s leading organizations committed to research and...
By Julie R. Enszer Writing about lesbian-feminist publishers in the 1970s and 1980s, I am haunted. Often I wake with a fragment from a poem...
Afuwa is a Guyanese-born artist, facilitator, and writer who uses myth and constructions of identity to question nearly everything. She lives/works on unceded Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, Squamish...
By Caits Meissner For Flonia I once loved the split fruit of a woman, scooping the seeds from the apple’s thick core, a dual moon I...
By Sasanka Jinadasa see, #solidarity is a word more easily tagged than practiced and I don’t know how I feel about using a #hashtag in...
By Ernest L. Gibson, III When Frederick Douglass wrote “My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which I am writing...
By Rev. Kyndra Danyelle Frazier Love can radically be re-imagined as an emotive action and response shared by all sentient beings that creates, heightens, and...
By Raidah Shah Idil I am estranged from my father, and no, I don’t like talking about it. Why bring it up in the public sphere?...