All posts by Guest Contributor
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Poetry by runner up Camonghne Felix
Google Search ………………………………………………………..Year: ‘02 ………………………………………………………………..radio; disney …………….Judy; Blume . …………………………………………..Hey; god; it’s; me; . ……………………………………………..cognitive; behavioral; therapy …………..moby; dick ……………………………………..p;t;s;d …………………jesse; mccartney how; to;...
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Excerpt from Dear Twin by Addie Tsai
Prologue Poppy wanted her back. She knew it was a fool’s mission. But, still. She had to try. Poppy’s wall...
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White People for Black Lives
By Zillah Eisenstein Revolutionary imagination is the most dangerous and therefore meaningful thing any of us have to offer. So I am writing in support...
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Personal is Political: Post-Abortion Mental Health Is a Feminist Issue
It’s our duty as feminists to keep abortion legal and safe—and safe means that we need to address the underlying problems that are causing women...
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Poetry by contest winner t’ai freedom ford
some said you were the spitting image of evil after Carrie Mae Weems you became drum became washboard became hum became tincan became numb...
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Op-Ed: Paris, #BlackLivesMatter, the Cultural Violence, and the White Western State
By Malik Nashad Sharpe Today, I mourn with French society, especially the families who have lost their loved ones to violence during yesterday’s attack at...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Two Poems by Ruth Corkill
By Ruth Corkill I Never Called You Lolita She’s a real glamour puss hmm. She doesn’t Just doodle around she actually Calls herself...
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3 Poems by Emily Carr
yolk (v.) he’s gonna havta reach inside you. he’s gonna do it. you asked him to. he’s gonna tell you how old it is. he’s...
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Personal is Political: Unhandsome: Race & Gender, a Chocolate Man’s POV
My complexion earned me unflattering monikers including, but certainly not limited to, Blackie, Spot, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Tar Baby. I was also...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: “What White Publishers Won’t Print:” Systemic Racism in (Institutionalized) Knowledge Production
By Mali D. Collins In 2013, I began an internship with an academic publishing press. It seemed to be the perfect combination of my dream...
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Love Note to Toni
Beverly Guy-Sheftall: So, five years after you joined the ancestors, the Women’s Center calls your name and honors your work. We celebrate with your friends,...
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Toni Cade Bambara: ‘…an uptown Griot’
Cheryl Clarke: The Black Woman: An Anthology from 1970, which Toni edited...is still one of the books I live by. Really, until Barbara Smith and...
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Liberation Legacy: Fifteen Years of the Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Program and Conferences at Spelman College, 2000-2015
M. Bahati Kuumba and Malika Redmond: The Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference happens in March during Women’s History Month on or near Bambara’s birthday. ...
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Personal is Political: How Toni Cade Bambara Saved Me
Imani Uzuri: I spent many stolen hours crying in a quiet gazebo meditating on the wide sky and trying to understand who I was becoming,...
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Personal is Political: Wholeness, Homeness: A Love Note to Toni
Rita Dove: So my first meeting with Toni occurred under the glare of bright lights; and though I don’t recall what words were exchanged—the welcoming...
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Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara
Sonia Sanchez: What are we pretending not to know today? The premise as you said, my sister, being that colored people on planet earth really...
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Toni Cade Bambara: The Moment In-Between
Eleanor Traylor: Since then, we became communicants like those described in “the Johnson Girls” in Gorilla. And our talk, like those girls, was self-fashioning talk....
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Bambara: What She Meant To Us/Me
There is brilliance and bravery written here, among the cultures of masculinity and “men run it.” There is a clear message here for the youthful...
