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The Women’s Mosque of America: Understanding Diversity and Empowerment
By Madihah Akhter One Friday afternoon, as I was settling down to listen to a sermon in my local mosque in Orange County, California, a woman...
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Poem: “A Girl’s Guide” by Amy Gleeson
By Amy Gleeson sit and be still sit and be still and cross your legs sit and be still and cross your legs and...
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How Nike’s Neoliberal Feminism Came to Rule the Global South
By Maria Hengeveld The first time Nike tried to convince American consumers that it cared about women’s equality was in 1987, when the shoe giant aired...
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#Blacksexworkerslivesmatter: White-Washed ‘Anti-Slavery’ and the Appropriation of Black Suffering
By Robyn Maynard Claiming to be a modern-day anti-slavery ambassador is a highly profitable cause, one that is increasingly popular in Hollywood circles. Most recently, hundreds...
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Two Poems by Emelia Reuterfors
Brided 1) I wonder where my bride is . pigeonwinging and wired to the banister a split-end....
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“Think about your daughter!”: Motherhood and the Shaming of Sex Work
So, of course, I was bothered by the ever-so-tired (as in played out) but still so very dangerous shaming of sex work that is motivated...
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“And God is the Water”: Reflections on the EPA Spill, Power, and the U.S. Southwest
By Katherine Freeman I gaze with profound horror upon pictures of the San Juan and Animas rivers, flowing a sickly yellow and orange through Totah,...
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Poetry: “Madame X–” by Lauren K. Alleyne
Madame X— she a hustler a hussy shaking her bustled booty up and down town all smiles and wiles and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Country Within
By Sa Fa “Middle Passage” this is the middle. a place i prefer to call the middle rather than the end. even though,...
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Two Poems by Vicki Vargas
By Vicki Vargas Bottomless Mimosa A stranger’s dog threshes against its chain until the weeping of metal-links distracts our waiter. I watch your...
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# (or, Counted without Counting)
I feel chilly, so I grab my favorite green canvas jacket from the trunk and return to the warmth of my car in the parking...
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Prose Poem: “To All the Boys Who Didn’t”
By Kristin Sanders Thank you to the man in Las Vegas who ripped my tampon out and went down on me anyway...
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TFW Review: The Sisters Are Alright: Changing The Broken Narrative of Black Women In America
In full disclosure, I’m one of the interviewees in Tamara Winfrey Harris’ debut, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing The Broken Narrative of Black Women In...
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New Interdisciplinary Resource, Black Lives Matter, Introduces 6-12th Graders to Antiblack Violence in U.S. Law and Society
By M. Shadee Malaklou When Ferguson police draped a white sheet over Michael Brown’s dead body, they forgot to cover his feet. For four hours,...
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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State (Part II)
By Carolyn Tyjewski The BlackLivesMatter movement was founded on the premise that we should centralize the most marginalized within the Black liberation movements of old....
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“Mixed” Existence: On Rachel Dolezal and Alleles
By Daphne Taylor-García This article reflects on the colonial/racial divide, Rachel Dolezal’s proclamation, “I don’t give two shits what you guys think…I do consider myself...
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Straight Outta Rape Culture
When N.W.A.’s mega-hyped biopic Straight Outta Compton opens this Friday, the brutalized bodies of black women will be lost in the predictable stampede of media accolades. ...
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Flash Fiction: “A Dog Is A Dog Is A Dog”
By Arya F. Jenkins Mornings, early, she rose with her dog, Moreno, who was, to put it mildly, the spitting image of her father,...
