All posts by Guest Contributor
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Girl(s) with the Pearl Earring(s)
By Renna Gottlieb I’m sitting in a small dining hall at Connecticut College, surrounded by about fifty of my student peers. My school is located...
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3 poems by Valerie Bandura
Vagina and Cross-Cocks For their flag, ……….a sliced pair of white boxers, and on it, ………………………………………………………………in marmalade, the diamond shape of a vagina...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Understanding My Juicy Thighs, Thanks to Jenny from the Block
By Jamie McKaie The biography sat on the bookshelf of my fourth grade classroom, as if patiently waiting for me. The bell rang. Ring. I ran for...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Conversations With My Abuelita
By Isabel Hibbard I like to think that I have helped my abuelita cope with the pain of her past, especially during her loneliest years...
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Katniss and Anastasia: Mismatched Heroines in a Shared Hell
By Lucy Berrington Why does America’s confused cultural gaze keep landing on two such mismatched literary heroines as Katniss Everdeen and Anastasia Steele? One is...
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2 poems by Geffrey Davis
Unfledged What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? — Robert Hayden Weekends too my father...
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3 poems by Niki Herd
Conjure Season Last night another woman died at the hands of a lover boy friend husband ex take your pick & all the mouths...
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3 poems by Trish Salah
notes toward dropping out (March 1995) This is where I ceased— Not to be too obvious, or in mutation, or distilled, transmogrification ...
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Two Poems by Gala Mukomolova
By Gala Mukmolova Girl-talk * I’ve really been working on my orgasmic meditation, my ex tells me. If the instructor touches my clit in...
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4 poems by Sonya Renee
A Poem For The Girl Who Solicited Money To Get To the National Poetry Slam (I assume by plane) Because ”I am only 20...
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An Open Letter to My Transgender Brothers on World AIDS Day 2013
By Kai M. Green Dear Kinfolk: Today is World Aids Day. Today, I remember those who we have lost. I remember the ancestors we have...
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Op-Ed: A Difficult Solidarity with Saudi Women
By Sana Hashmi A Huffington Post headline last month read: “Rotana Tarabzouni’s Lorde Cover Will Make You Stand In Unity With Saudi Arabia’s Women (Video).”...
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Artist Sophia Wallace Responds to CLITERACY Critiques
By Sophia Wallace As an artist, my job is to explore an idea aesthetically and then share my work with the public. In this light,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Letter To All Women Who Have Been Told To Quieten Down, Speak Softer and Be Less Angry
By Mohadesa Najumi Dedicated to my Mother, Kateryna, Hala, Kim, Gabby and @buonasahra Dear woman who has been told to quieten down, speak softer and be less...
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An Open Letter to UConn Students
By Judy Rohrer I am choosing the form of an open letter as a tribute to the courage UConn student Carolyn Luby showed when she...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: No More Civility: Putting an End to UConn’s Violence and Silence
By Martina Powell and Lauren Todd When University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst addressed the recently filed Title IX complaint against the university as “astonishingly...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Lily Allen Peddles the Same Racist Tropes Through White Privilege Narrative
By Mohadesa Najumi Lily Allen’s “Hard Out Here” video has not been circulating the Internet unscathed. If you haven’t seen it, it is a largely...
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3 poems by Sara Renee Marshall
from THE LANDSCAPES WERE IN MY ARMS 1 The history of industry tells me more than this archive of confession. My legs are forgotten...
