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Personal is Political: Re-Imagining Disclosure as a Collective Act of Listening
I wanted to create a space to document and record resistance and resilience that isn’t being seen or heard; the thoughts, the memories, the moments...
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F-Bombs to Live By: Feminism, Faith and Functional practices
By Stephany Rose I don’t hate white men. Though having to directly assert such a position is evidence for why my work of Abolishing White...
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Putting Down the Weight: How Social Media Makes Eating Disorders Worse
By Annetta Ramsay Demi Lovato, the actress and singer, has been open about her struggle with an eating disorder since her 2010 emergence from a...
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For Cláudia Silva Ferreira: Death and the Collective Black Female Body
By Christen Smith What do we want from each other After we have told our stories do we want to be healed do we want...
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Feminists We Love: Katarzyna Marciniak
If feminist rage is something feared and often mocked (in order to belittle its power), then feminist immigrant rage is definitely a hard-core offense. We...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Woman Made From Iron
By Mohadesa Najumi Dedicated to my mother. They try to shrink you. Tame you. Convince you that all your rage is a product of your...
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On Boko Haram, Missing Children, and Narcissism
By Niama Safia Sandy This month I’ve watched as everyone talked about the mounting tension between the Ukraine and Russia, the Heartbleed superbug, the South...
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Asha Kowtal and Thenmozhi Soundararajan: The Journey towards Liberation
By Sonia J. Cheruvillil Part 2 **** In 2012, the Haryana district in India witnessed a significant and historic moment in Dalit women’s movement. Organized...
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Nigerian Girls Deserve Better Than This
By Minna Salami On April 14, over two hundred girls aged twelve to seventeen were kidnapped from their school hostel in Borno, a Nigerian state that...
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Personal is Political: An Unfamiliar Gaze: A Muslim American in France and the 10 year Anniversary of the Veil Ban
I find myself unwittingly pulled into an old and tense national debate, laïcité vs. Muslim visibility, where I once again find myself on the not...
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Dalit Women, Sexual Violence and the Geography of Caste: A Journey towards Liberation – An Interview with Asha Kowtal and Thenmozhi Soundararajan
By Sonia J. Cheruvillil Part #1 **** In 2012, the Haryana district in India witnessed a significant and historic moment in Dalit women’s movement. Organized...
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The Sterling Shuffle: Unpacking White Jewish Racism
Every Sunday for the past several years the mug of real estate mogul/slumlord and L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling has commanded prime ad space in...
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The Radical Politics of Self-Love and Self-Care
By SooJin Pate When most people think about love, it is usually a feeling that flows outward towards some person or some thing: “I love...
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Poems by Liz Latty
How to be a Normal Family 1. A small girl wriggles around on the couch under a blanket. Rubs the soft corner against her cheek....
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Personal is Political: Seeing Your Self
"Because you know that you are not a minister, or a homo, or a sissy, or a faggot, or effeminate, or sensitive, or soft-spoken, or...
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North Dakota Oil Boom: Frontier Mythology and Gender Oppression
By Samuel M Clevenger In the past few years, Williston, North Dakota and the surrounding area has become a “modern day Gold Rush,” a “new...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Finding Your Different
By Vaidehi Mujumdar We’ve already buried so much of our different, it feels so hard to find. Almost every day, my friend and I exchange...
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Racism, Sexism, and the Myth of the “Confidence Gap”
By Kim Tran Last year Sheryl Sandberg told women to “lean in.” This year Katty Kay and Claire Shipman are telling women worldwide to “stand...
