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Hoods Up, Hands Up: Against the White to Bear Arms
By Lauren Heintz The images of militarized police in Ferguson rightly bring to mind the trickle down of military devices to state police, as Rania...
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Poems for Ferguson: Vanessa Huang and Aya de Leon
Two poets consider Michael Brown, Ferguson, MO, and the crucial ways in which Black Life Matters. How Do I Love Thee? A love...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Ferguson’s Protest and Its Occupation
By Vanessa Lynn Lovelace On Saturday, August 9, 2014 at around noon, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Eyewitnesses...
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She’s In: Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperial Feminists Against War
By Zillah Eisenstein Hillary Rodham Clinton (un)officially entered the 2016 presidential race in her interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine. Much has been...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Just in Case
By Megan Koopman When you become a woman and your breasts start to show in a way that makes vice principals shake and neighborhood...
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“Paws” by Tracy Burkholder
Paws In sixth grade, I started to envy certain girls’ hands. Not always manicured, but always neat. Fingers thin and smooth. These hands gently...
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Personal is Political: The Other Girl: How I Found Feminism When My Mother Went to Prison
I was only 15 when it happened, but it took years for me to understand that other girls weren’t interested in hearing about my hurt....
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So You’re Horrified By What Happened in Ferguson: What Are You Doing About It?
If you are still trying to admit defeat in the face of racism, you aren't reading enough people of color. Until they give up, you...
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Op-Ed: Meme what you say, say what you meme: What kind of Asian woman am I? A good one gone bad
By J. Mijin Cha As I was sitting through the second excruciating hour of my first Tinder date, I couldn’t help thinking: How did I...
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Dancing while Laying Dead in the Street
By Wade Davis II and Michael Jennings The poet Claude McKay wrote a poem called “The Lynching” where he vividly describes the lynching of a...
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Baby Gammy and the Problem of Women’s Labor
It is typically poor and/or women of color who bear the brunt of...contracted out reproductive labor. They bear the brunt of our burdens—we are parasitic...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Date Rape and the Good Girl/Bad Girl Dichotomy
By Elena Carter In the hours after I was date-raped and had stumbled, still drunk, into the hotel room where I was staying with my...
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Anti-Feminists and the Continued Backlash Against Suffragettes
By Tiffany Lamoreaux Last week this lovely gem made its way around my internet feeds. The Buzzfeed list features 14 women, holding up signs that note...
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Elementary Feminisms: Two Poems by Lorean Galarza
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Op-Ed: The NFL’s Response to Violence Against Women: Why One Fan Won’t Watch This Year
This is an issue of basic human dignity and respect. I, as a man, am perfectly capable of not beating up my wife and children....
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3 Poems by Holly Mitchell
Slipping Under Like a ghost, I prepare a bath behind a door that hasn’t locked long as I remember. When my mother...
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An Open Letter to the loved ones of those we lost….
By Douglas Ramsey and J. T. Roane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_hg0YE9hw Dear Lesley McSpadden, Esaw Garner, Monica McBride, loved ones of Domonique Newburn as well as the countless...
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In Support of Professor Steven Salaita: A Letter to Chancellor Phyllis Wise
By Robin G. Kelley Dear Chancellor Wise, Please do not ignore or delete this letter, or have your administrative assistant file it away. I understand...
