CONFESSION Sometimes one willingly enters a dark and empty space, the creaking of the loose boards below, the phantom moonlight above. · I had a...
By Nicole Nguyen and R. Tina Catania “There is a politics to exhaustion. Feeling depleted can be a measure of just what we are up...
I told the nurses politely that I wished to leave, knowing this wasn’t the best environment for my health. This statement alone made me an...
By Eve Dunbar Tayari Jones attended a brunch in Brooklyn to which I was also invited a few weeks ago. Seven-deep in the a living...
“A dream will make us fight to see it come true. An expectation will lead to passivity and probably to disappointment.” ~ Mu Sochua On...
By Rebecca Heilweil She has my eyes. They’re a cool dark-blue, shaped by chubby almond lids and framed by cornstalk blonde hair. They’re our eyes....
By Kari O’Driscoll On July 16, Buzzfeed asked their female employees to answer the question, “Why do you take birth control pills?” Twenty-two of them...
Elie Wiesel writes, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps...
This isn’t my way of confessing that I’d rather have a vagina, or that I’ve ever seriously thought about it. It’s just my way of...
See, that’s the thing, we are all oppressed in certain ways, and we all occupy the position of the oppressor in other ways, but in...
I came to women’s and gender studies as many do: on a search for answers. Between the pages of Patricia Hill Collins and Gloria Anzaldúa,...
The Mountain The mountain is really a series of itself. Deeper pockets of sky color float in its canyons. In certain seasons, it’s difficult...
In retrospect, I blame E.T. for my homosexuality. Were it not for that genderless brown lump, I would’ve never tuned in to the excess of...
Who I’d Like to Meet I am on tiptoe scanning our tallest bookshelves for something to pack to read on the plane. I am...
By Jeanne Flavin and Laura Huss Many mainstream feminist and prochoice groups have been reluctant to adopt intersectional approaches and to declare common cause with...
By Christina Peterson As a student, I never thought I would be stuck in a place where I face the possibility of failing a class...
By Aya de Leon Concern about sex trafficking of underage girls is on the rise throughout the US. Various states are considering or have passed legislation...
By Susan Harlan Today, the babies have no say. The babies are abroad. They’re in Rome, or on the top of a mountain (in a...