All posts by Guest Contributor
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How To Forgive Abortion When You Are the Aborter
Andria Nacina Cole I imagine there are many feminists who would like to mourn an abortion but are afraid to do so, because to admit...
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I Loves ME Some ME!: Karima Amin on Love and Restorative Justice
By Karima Amin It has taken me a long time to say those words and really mean them. At age 66, loving ME is a...
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Stop and Frisk: Violence Subsidies and the Myth of Order
By Roberto E. Alejandro In a scene from 1952’s High Noon, Gary Cooper’s Marshal Kane enters the town parish in the hopes of recruiting deputies...
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I Love So That I May Teach
By Linh Hua In July 2008, my last formal teacher was brutally murdered. The formulation of that sentence—the recognition of that particular loss—only just recently...
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Op-Ed: You’re Pregnant? What a Shame!
By Laura Phelps If you’re an English language teacher, like me, you’ll be familiar with the concept of adjacency pairs. These are call-and-response phrases that...
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Earle J. Fisher on Love as a Radical Act
By Rev. Earle J. Fisher Sadly, it seems that love has become synonymous with cheap and self-centered lust. Radical individualism has overridden communal and corporate compassion....
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Rashida Harrison on Love as a Radical Act
By Rashida Harrison To be a feminist, for me, is a work of love. However, it was not until I wrote my dissertation, drawing on...
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Strikeout by Stacey Balkun
By Stacey Balkun Love note for Marianne Moore, 1887-1972, American modernist poet and baseball fan. Marianne—I’m running out of time. I’m reading you again, marking...
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Love (self-, romantic, solidarity) SMASHES Patriarchy and Rape Culture
By Nicole Burres of SMASH Patriarchy and Rape Culture Nicole Burres, a member of SMASH Patriarchy and Rape Culture, asked a series of people about...
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Andre E. Johnson on Self-Love
By Andre E. Johnson The most radical love is self-love. In fact, I suggest that in order to love others, one must be able to...
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Prayer by Claire Askew
By Claire Askew for Steve I almost can’t help it. Sometimes it just comes fizzing up through me — the white noise of lightning rattling...
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“To keep back the cold”
By Stephanie Gilmore -with mil gracias to Cherríe Moraga To keep back the cold I...
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Looking Up
By Stacey Balkun . ..Love note for Sally Ride, 1951-2012, American physicist and astronaut ..who joined NASA at age 32 and became the first American woman...
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Love Notes in Four Parts
By Katrina Otuonye Like Letters …..I used to have dreams where I would read anonymous letters sent to my house. …..“I do not love you,”...
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Your survival taught me how to love
By Anwar Uhuru Two years ago at a conference I met a man who changed my life. We were both in the audience and the panel...
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A Dialogue of Love: A Conversation on Freedom and Affect
By Marcie Bianco and J.T. Roane TFW Collective Member, Darnell L. Moore, delivered a talk titled, “What Freedom Feels Like: On love, empathy and pleasure in the...
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Love Note: Black Youth Project 100 Member Aaron Talley on Radical Love
By Aaron Talley In this era of deep political polarization and the seclusion offered by social media, one of the biggest hindrances to social change is...
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She Called Me a Poet
By Candy Taaffe August 9, 2009 Finally official. . The love and mutual respect is what inspires the truth, ………….and the desire ………….to make happen...
