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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Ideological Abolition: Divesting Ideas (Not Just Money) From the Prison
By Bella Week There are about as many higher education institutions in this country as there are prisons, and all but Columbia and the University...
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3 poems by Elvira Basevich
HECUBA Hecuba, rage as if you were still Queen, or at least make a sound, so I can send the kingdom’s remaining children to...
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The Work of Waking the Sleeping in a Broken World: We Are Together
By Seema Reza I work things out in my dreams. My brain seems better able to work things out in the absence of my effort...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Boys Will Be Boys
By Chelsey Engel Tell boys to start young Look up our skirts when we’re not paying attention And when they’re older and ask us to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, 3 poems by Jordan Durham
________________________________________________________________________________ Jordan Durham holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho where she was the 2015-16 Centrum Fellow. Her poems...
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Two Poems
By Angelique V. Nixon moon rituals in times of crisis rush of magic enters the body with colorful joy bursts of soothing...
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The “Identity Politics” We’re Not Talking About
By William Ruhm I first encountered the term “identity politics” while organizing with the Black Lives Matter movement through a socialist group in Boston. When one white ally...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, On the Gender Racism of Black Men towards Black Women
By Ibram X. Kendi In the prologue of my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, He Thinks You’re A Hoe Anyway! The -1 vs. +1 Woman’s Value Theory
By Mohadesa Najumi I want to share with you my own personal theory entitled “The -1 vs. +1 value.” It is my formula to explain...
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3 poems by Torrin A. Greathouse
Definitions after Keaton St. Micheal BOY /boi/ noun dirt stained palms & tar black feet. the soft prayer-mat of bloody knees...
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Why We Must Write: A Reflection on Tenure Denial and Coloring Between the Lines
By Michelle Téllez My terminal contract came to an end in May 2014, after tenure denial at the public university where I had worked as...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Puberty Ruined Me
By Megan Bryde The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny that the effects of the past are...
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4 poems by Rajiv Mohabir
The River-son’s Betrayal Ganga, the river goddess, drowned her seven sons as infants. When the Vasus were still unborn she vowed...
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On Loving Strangers (Patients and Otherwise)
By Bahar Orang When I was a little girl, I’d often go on long walks with my parents. They would talk to each other, and...
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Stand for Tenure for Women Scholars of Color
By Vilna Bashi Treitler I’m a full Professor of Sociology. Some might say I’ve “made it,” especially in a country where (according to data from the...
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Rethinking Forgiveness in the Face of Unceasing Black Trauma
I am the daughter of a black Baptist preacher. I am also a black feminist scholar of Black Religion and Black Diaspora Studies. So on...
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4 Poems by Joseph Han
Why I Take My Grandmother to Church Every Sunday She replaced her husband’s limbs with wood: broken from doors in past rooms, branches...
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2 poems by Ashwini Bhasi
Dowry We gave 125 pavans of gold to weigh you down—a kilo of yellow that gleamed like a tiger’s eye or like...
