All posts by Guest Contributor
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Personal is Political: Get Your Hormones Out of My Body
I believe that any safe birth control option should be made available to anyone (male or female) who wishes to exert control over their reproductive...
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Anti-Imperial Feminist Musings in Morocco
By Zillah Eisenstein I traveled to Fez and Casablanca, Morocco, earlier this month to dialogue with Islamic Feminists there and to see, feel, and stretch...
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Elementary Feminisms: A Call to Young Women
By Shama Nathan Recently, I came across an old post that had quickly surfaced on Tumblr. The post was discussing the problem with teaching girls...
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Back Up, Back Off, and Listen
By Aaminah Shakur In the wake of a very public war in Ferguson, Missouri, following the murder by police of Michael Brown, the white power...
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Two Poems by Tsitsi Jaji
By Tsitsi Jaji Pause. (For All the Madibas)* There is a breath before the pendulum rends its center, A breath before what leapt...
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Personal is Political: An Open Letter to amerika
When people say racism doesn’t exist, they are blinded. They are blinded by the privilege and high property value that their skin possesses; they are...
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Op-Ed: Perspectives We Don’t Need and Those We Do
By Mirabel Ash In popular discourse, we have come to recognize individuals from dominant groups who advocate for civil rights and liberties on behalf of...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Step One: Show Skin, Step Two: Praise Talent: A Look at Scarlett Johansson and the Film Industry
By Megan Felder I’ve always loved movies. A lot. Romantic comedy, sci-fi, superhero action – you name it, I will watch it. Perhaps that’s why...
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The Limits of Speaking on Catastrophe: Confessions of a Palestinian Teacher
By Diya Abdo I am a Professor of English at Guilford College. I am Chair of the English Department. I am a faculty member in...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Perseverance Conquers: An Open Letter
By Princess Harmony-Jazmyne Rodriguez The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and...
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Fiction Feature: from “Kill Marguerite,” by Megan Milks
By Megan Milks This excerpt from the short story “Kill Marguerite” takes place after the protagonist, Caty, has already beat Level One and killed...
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A Review of Koblitz’s “Sex and Herbs and Birth Control”
By Tiffany Lamoreaux Addressing an Iowa audience in August 2014, Republican Rand Paul claimed that the GOP was not interested in banning birth control. Instead,...
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Personal is Political: Love Note: Renewed Hunger
Life, vitality, uncertainty—that’s the terrain you tread on when you rid yourself of comforts that your sickness afforded you.
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Three Poems by Samiya Javed
By Samiya Javed “You’re a King and I’m a Lion-heart” * I’d rather you curse your stars than curse my mother’s overburdened...
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Not all Black women.
By Nikki Patin Fat? Nope. You’re too unhealthy. Poor? Nope. You don’t know how to manage your money. Light and got the nerve to say...
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Let Our Ears Tingle with Truth
By Keri Day Victor Hugo powerfully stated, “The guilty one is not he who commits the sin in the dark, but he who causes the...
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“When are we going to wake up?” Anti-Blackness, Police Power, and Profit
By Beryl Satter “…a black woman, Mrs. Jones, wrote to Mayor Daley because her son was beaten to death by several white cops…over a traffic...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Bringing “All” to the Tent of Communal Healing
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes Inspired by the story of a Black enslaved woman, Margaret Garner, Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved explores the narrative of Sethe,...
