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The Promise of Post-Oppositional Politics: A Preliminary Conversation
By Layli Maparyan and AnaLouise Keating Layli Maparyan (LM): How did you come to the notion of post-oppositional politics? AnaLouise Keating (ALK): I’ve only started...
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Treva B. Lindsey: The Future and the Now
Dr. Treva B. Lindsey is very much the future – of black popular cultural studies, feminist scholarship, social media activism, and so much more. Someone...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Just Because: Colorblindness Is a Real Problem
By Mohadesa Najumi **This post is dedicated to all the strong people of the world who persevere every day for justice in the face of mass...
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Treva B. Lindsey: The Future and the Now, a Feminist we Love (Video)
Dr. Treva B. Lindsey is very much the future – of black popular cultural studies, feminist scholarship, social media activism, and so much more. Someone...
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Glenn McConnell and the College of Charleston: Hidden Histories and the Confederate Imagery
By Jamie Huff South Carolina’s history as a former Confederate state engenders both resistance and refractory nostalgia. The recent decision to appoint Glenn McConnell as...
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Shitty Justice: Environmental Injustice in India —Part 2
I begin again with questions (I hope you remember this is still an “interrogative text” where there are no answers as in disclosures. Therefore closure...
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Personal is Political: Looking for Home: Interethnic Racial Profiling
Erika G. Abad, "Racial profiling 'from below' builds another avenue through which we can understand how we measure the possibilities of intimacy, solidarity and community....
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The Colbert Report and White Privilege: Satire I don’t believe in
By Michelle Medina I am a fan of The Daily Show. I am a fan of Jon Stewart and his cultural resistance to the status...
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Shitty Justice: Environmental Injustice in India —Part I
In January 2013, I along with five colleagues from Connecticut College traveled to India for “Global Environmental Justice” field trip. A semester long seminar of...
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In Solidarity with Mireille Miller-Young: Porn Studies, Context, and Speech
By Heather Berg Various scholars, journalists, and shock jocks have shared their perspectives on the March 4th encounter between UCSB Professor Mireille Miller-Young and the...
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Power Play with Anna Mae: Drunk in Love, Beyoncé and the Exploration of BDSM in the Deconstruction of Sexually Violent Mantras
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Fourteen weeks after its release, Drunk In Love has only now fallen to number 10 on Billboard’s “The Hot 100.” At week...
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Two Poems by Emma Victoria Miller
By Emma Victoria Miller The Water Carrier Last night I dreamt of the house of the girl who drew water, The girl...
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“Dangerous girl. The dream of my life.”: Nadia Abou-Karr’s The Iconoclast: Revolutionary Love Poems
Right now I am growing more dangerous. I am growing into a woman who expresses her needs. I am not expressing my needs to make...
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Personal is Political: Guinevere
Elizabeth Dunphey writes about friendship and sisterhood for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW, "Your voice was big and powerful and special. You grabbed my hand to read my...
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What has changed for you? Reflections on Women’s History Month and Movement Forward
By Lorena Campos The Women’s History Month comes to an end not without reflections. Instead, we should remind advances but seek first real stock of...
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Op-Ed: Body Politic (or, Skinny Hate: Maria Kang, Gwyneth Paltrow, and the New Misogyny)
By Laila Pedro As a longtime dancer now working as a scholar, writer, and media strategist, I am (often to my detriment) deeply and constantly...
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The Invisibility of Asian Americans
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim Where is the public face of Asian Americans in our society? As we follow the case of Kenneth Bae, the only...
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Personal is Political: A Feminist Defense of Cinderella
Shoshanna Schechter-Shaffin explores the relationship between feminism and princess culture for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW, "When we completely and totally reject princess culture, we limit our daughters from...
