All posts by Guest Contributor
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#BlackChurchSex: Taking the Harness Off the Mouths of the Oppressed
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.” –Revelations 12:11 “Are you sure...
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Campus Rape Survivors Need Policy Change, Not Trigger Warnings
By Maggie Hardy I write as a rape survivor, and like any victim, I can assure you that triggers are out there. If higher education...
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Poetry by Fabienne Josaphat and Laila Malik
POLITICAL SILENCE For Michael Brown You tell me to keep quiet as we walk past the block where black boys are seated with...
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Towards An Abolitionist Feminism
By Zillah Eisenstein As an anti-racist white feminist, I wonder if it is enough to be an “ally” in this present and “newest” moment of...
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2 poems by Jaimie Gusman
Swoon When I pass out I have visions of my soul. My soul is a large blue flicker with white glow. I pass...
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Ganesh and Kali: Seeing Myself in a Feminist Artist’s Goddess of Destruction
By Chaya Babu The other day, I furiously penned a blog post after two simultaneous attacks that I am not the right kind of woman. I...
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How Sex Reassignment Surgery Works in America
By Eric Plemons Fascination with Bruce Jenner’s possible transition from male to female has prompted a deluge of writing on Jenner and on the process...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: POETRY BY WAFA SIMPORE
~~~~~~~~~ Step by step is an understatement of the Complexity Confusion Exhaustion That comes along with this work, Deconstruction Reconstruction so that many of us...
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3 poems by Eve Kenneally
South In between, I brush my teeth in a truck stop and remember how to fishtail my hair. Mostly my hands cramp around the...
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Personal Is Political: Trans Feminine Humility
While internalized misogyny tells me I need to be humble and quiet, internalized transmisogyny tells me I need to be even more humble and quiet—this...
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Climate Change and Feminist Environmentalisms: Closing Remarks
By Cristina Awadalla, Piper Coutinho-Sledge, Alison Criscitiello, Julie Gorecki, and Sonalini Sapra Climate change impacts us all, from the itty-bitty crawler in your garden to...
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How Did This Happen? Capitalism’s Double Subordination of Women and Nature
By Julie Gorecki Waves of women most impacted by environmental destruction are spearheading viable solutions to the climate crisis by advocating that there can be...
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Eco-Feminist Appropriations of Indigenous Feminisms and Environmental Violence
By Lindsay Nixon Settler environmental movements attempting to organize in solidarity with Indigenous peoples have frequently relied on the evocation of eco-feminism and, in doing...
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whosoever has let a minotaur enter them or a sonnet— (excerpts)
By Emily Carr . . ) ONLY THE BIRD GENES REMEMBER between her thighs, the buffalo holding sky. saucers of mountain sway. deities spill,...
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3 poems by Tara Betts
When Racism Affecting Black Girls is Ignored “I was overwhelmed by the thought of having to be a black girl for the rest of...
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When Fear and Favor Rule: The World Bank’s Systemic Land Displacement
By Cristina Awadalla According to the UN’s Trade and Environment Review, food security, poverty, gender inequality, and climate change can all be collectively addressed with...
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Solidarity for Feminist Climate Justice
By Corrie Ellis Judy Bonds, an inspirational woman activist leader of the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, U.S., echoed the following quote...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: My Message to Anti-Abortionists
By Anonymous Dear Picketer, Pulling into the abortion clinic you were there to greet me after my hour-and-a-half long drive across the state line....
