All posts by Guest Contributor
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Excerpts from “Let Her: Words, Matter” by Ames Hawkins
I. Julie punched the buttons on the radio, hard double-clicks, propelling the station marker back and forth between the rock and roll of WLLZ and...
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Personal is Political: Open Letter to Dylan Farrow
TRIGGER WARNING: This letter includes descriptions of sexual abuse. Dear Dylan, My father worships Woody Allen. Until I read your letter yesterday, I never understood...
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Op Ed: It’s Time to Answer the Call for Mobile Education
By Laura Odenthal As ringtones interrupt class and texting diverts attention, it is no wonder that many teachers view cell phones as a classroom distraction....
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Help Wanted: Sexual Harassment and the Restaurant Industry
By Jennifer McGreevey On my second day of waitressing at Athen’s Kitchen*, it rained. “It sucks cock,” said my boss, Baldios*, barely understandable due...
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Personal is Political: Nationhood is Both Inside of Me and Outside of Me
By Lynn Gehl, Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe As an Indigenous woman, I am really grateful for the opportunity to talk about what nationhood means to me. As an...
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Black Female Too-Muchness: Between Hypersexual Norms and Respectable Exceptions
By Janell Hobson Ten years ago, pop star Janet Jackson received the brunt of public outrage – which culminated in FCC fines – when Justin...
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A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia
A Review of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia By Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde Women of color in academia are at...
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Three Poems by Joy KMT
By Joy KMT Renisha McBride Even now you are being explained away your body laid on the coffee table and autopsied...
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Personal is Political: What’s it Like?
By Rosa Cabrera After the first and last time we slept together, she asked, “So what’s it like to be the third?” ...
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Op-Ed: Why Does “Gender” Mean No Pay?
By Dean Laplonge It’s not unusual for me to be approached by resource companies for advice. My research and work explore the topic of gender...
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(En)Gendering Greatness: Caught Between Richard Sherman and a Hard Place
By Tikia K. Hamilton “I’m the shit!” You will probably never hear me utter these words, even though, on most days, I must quietly remind...
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Personal is Political: Should I Be Telling You This?
By Sarah Brent “If two people come together, who’ve never had any power except by the way of abuse, it’s going to be bad. Both...
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Protecting What’s White: A New Look at Stand Your Ground Laws
By Sabrina Strings I ran into a normally nocturnal neighbor early one morning. She was buzzing about with an uncharacteristic alacrity. “Morning,” I muttered. “Good...
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Book Review: “A Penny Saved” by Arisa White
A Penny Saved, by Arisa White (Willow Books) Reviewed by Sarah Mantilla Griffin Between September 2001 and June 2012, far more American women...
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Four Poems by Cindy Lynn Brown
By Cindy Lynn Brown Harmless Just a remark casually through the room under neon lights nothing to hang on to for several minutes...
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Personal is Political: From Married Woman to Radical Queer: Permission to Re-make Ourselves
By Brittany Chávez Several authors—such as Joanne Fleisher, Mary A. Fischer, and Sherry Amatenstein—have written about women coming out later in life, after marriage and...
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Mumia: An Ironic Icon
By Soffiyah Elijah Mumia Abu-Jamal seems at times to be bigger than life. Many around the globe revere him, while law enforcement authorities despise him. His...
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Mumia on Religion, Empire, and Gender
By Mark Lewis Taylor While Mumia endured 50 days in solitary confinement, transiting from 29 years on death row to the general prison population in 2012,...
