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#ShoutYourAbortion: The Ethics of Reproduction
It is hard not to be in a state of rage when I re-member this painful herstory and simultaneously reflect upon the contemporary reality that...
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A Last Resort
By Gabrielle Daniels It was a Saturday. I think that I walked all the way home from San Francisco General to Church and 26th. For...
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A Review: Son of Baldwin Shares Why Janet Jackson’s Newest Album Reveals She is Unbreakable
By Robert Jones, Jr. In the 2011 BBC Janet Jackson documentary Taking Control, legendary musician/producer/songwriter Jimmy Jam recalls a moment during the recording of Jackson’s...
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“Cornrows” by Renee Simms
CORNROWS Lydia took the rat tail end of the comb and slid it over her daughter’s scalp. The hair’s thickness reminded Lydia of the blue...
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#ShoutYourAbortion: I’ve Had Two Abortions and I Don’t Regret Either of Them
By Ashleigh Shackelford The first time I was pregnant, it was as a result of rape by my then boyfriend’s close friend. I was only...
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Waking Up to Rape Culture in Asheville
The first time I learned about rape culture was on the school bus. Soon after leaving the school parking lot, the boys in the row...
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Manic Pixie Dream Cervix
By Sarah Cook but she is like a glass woman one ingredient, transparent a hunter of too bad treasure * why can’t she...
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The Preacher’s Daughter
By Sharon Rothberg At my wedding in the summer of 1964, I was 22 years old. Marty and I had dated for three years, and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: DEAR SOCIETY, PLEASE CHANGE
By Jennifer Egbebike Dear Parents, When did it all begin? When did I start believing that in order to be an asset to society, I...
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3 poems by beyza ozer
I AM NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT FOREST YOU’VE BEEN IN a Palestinian is killed every 4 days and i’m crying because my bus...
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A Midwife’s Story
By Chloë Lubell There’s nothing dramatic about my abortion story. I had been with my partner for five years already. It was the summer before...
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Another Time
By Clementine Burnley This is the life that will not be What I imagined for you and me I have gathered information Groped for...
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A Love Note to Women Who’ve Had Voluntary Abortions
I had an abortion when I was a sophomore in high school. I had another when I was a sophomore in college. Before then and...
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The Pope and His “Patriarchy Problem,” Again
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing this on the train traveling from Milan to Venice, Italy. Many people here are excited that Pope Francis arrives...
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A Mirror in the Sky: Camille A. Brown’s Black Girl: Linguistic Play
As I was watching Camille A. Brown and her dancers in Brown’s latest work, Black Girl: Linguistic Play during a run through on Sunday...
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Two Poems by Megan Arlett
Period. Stop. In England, where I paused my mother’s period for nine months, period means period. Period. And ‘full stop’ means a period. A single...
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Call for Submissions: “Our Abortions, Our Lives”
Our Abortions, Our Lives: A Forum In the face of repeated attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, stigmatize abortion, impede reproductive justice, punish mothers, disavow children,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Quiet Miracle of Undocumented Immigration
By Fernanda Cunha At my parents’ new house there’s a cat who is always by the big-limbed tree in the front yard. It’s more bones...
