All posts by Guest Contributor
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Op-Ed: All the News Fit for White Men: Why Journalism is Failing America
By David Cuillier If you want to know what kinds of news Americans consume in their daily lives, just ask a white man. He probably picked...
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From Corpses, Artworks and Dreams of by Raha Namy
The novel Corpses, Arts and Dreams of is a triptych that hopes to tell the story/history of a people of a place and time, from...
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Girls On Top – Who Really Benefits from Sexuality, Identity and Branding in Pop Music?
By Faye Lewis Let’s face it–analyzing issues of gender, beauty and sexuality in the music industry is exhausting. Arguing for women’s agency is important, but...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pretty Black Girls Just Don’t Exist
By Kaila Philo At least, this is what I’ve taken from you all these years. Black women aren’t meant to be love interests or high...
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La Femenista Presence
By Cynthia Estremera In college I was surrounded by white feminists and white feminism. I was co-President of our feminist group “The Third Wave” and...
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Poetry by Sarah Gonzales
fairy tales 2 I wish I could spit rhymes with the ease of a liberated tongue, relay my stories minus the empty hours of...
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Homeland Security Goes to School
By Nicole Nguyen On a rather dreary day in April 2013, I found myself holed up inside of a cardboard box on a closet shelf some...
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Tales from the Kraka Tower
By Aphrodite Kocięda and Kyle Romano Tales from the Kraka Tower is a grassroots web-series that satirizes “diversity” in academia. What makes our series different from others...
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Two Poems by Lindsay Lusby
By Lindsay Lusby Girl with no Hands Her own father mistook her for an apple tree, full-trunked and red-cheeked. . So he hacked at limbs,...
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Astonishing Embodiments: Poetry and Feminism from Molly Sutton Kiefer
By Molly Sutton Kiefer I remember that heady time of my undergraduate years when I was so anxious to change the world–that requisite minor in...
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4 poems by Andrea Rexilius
from New Organism: Essais I want to think like a magi; as stones underwater reflect grief. How images capture tone, and temperature of what...
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3 poems by Ari Belathar
Sleepless song If you had seen the sea flooded with flowers and my words in your hands in my hands the air burning...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Poetry By Jaclyn Weber
The Walking Dead Girl in my history class totally started looking like a zombie from The Walking Dead. ...
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Why Women Will Lead the Way on Gun Reform
By Hollye Dexter What woke me that summer morning in 1978 was the screaming. I didn’t know it was my mother’s voice. I’d never heard...
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Internalized Misogyny within the Geek Community
By Desiree Rodriguez When geek culture started to truly flourish with the increasing profitability of superhero movies, supernaturally based TV shows, and renewed interest in the...
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Poem Suite: Missing
Tourists By Em Bowen Around this time last year, I started to read books about grief. I like to think that I did this because...
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Demeter Press at Risk of Closing: Is Motherhood a Feminist Issue Worthy of Support?
By Christine H. Morton Do we need a feminist movement for mothers? Do motherhood scholars need their own association and publisher? Andrea O’Reilly, founder of...
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An Alert: Capital is Intersectional; Radicalizing Piketty’s Inequality
By Zillah Eisenstein When civil rights activists speak about race they are told they need to think about class as well. When anti-racist feminists focus...
