All posts by Guest Contributor
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A Letter to Huma
By Sayu Bhojwani Dear Huma, I have thought so much about why you–universally admired, strong, intelligent, beautiful, charismatic—stay with an attention-hungry, untrustworthy, arrogant husband. Like everyone...
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Fiction Feature: "Planets" by Kaitlyn Greenidge
By Kaitlyn Greenidge We the only girls who leave our walk. We the only girls that travel. All the other girls on our walk,...
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Op-Ed: The Responsibility of Virgins
By Jeniece L. Carter In the year 2013, I am proud to be a virgin. I find no embarrassment in saying I am pure and have...
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Originally Amalia
By Amalia Clarice Mora Life is easier, kinder, and more lenient when you are white, and this may be why George Zimmerman decided to downplay...
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A Review: "Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth"
By j.n. salters “Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth” (2013). Pratibha Parmar (Director-Screenwriter-Producer) and Co-Produced with Shaheen Hq and Kali Films. Color; 82 minutes. Last night,...
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2 pieces by Julia Gordon
Walter Closes the Door Gently When somebody dies in this community, the people within, not knowing how else to ease the burden of grief that...
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Zimmerman’s Freedom and the Charges Against Me
The political nature of my charges cannot be over-stated here. To give human rights to a mechanical entity constructed solely for the sake of...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The "Unsophisticated" Mirror of Rachel Jeantel
By Lauren G. Parker The prosecution needed to represent Rachel Jeantel as much as they represented Trayvon Martin because her assumed unintelligence and subsequent worthlessness...
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What Activists and Advocates Taught Us About the Future of Reproductive Justice
By Ed Goldman, Alexandra Minna Stern, Timothy Johnson, and Lisa Harris of the Program in Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice, University of Michigan In spring...
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Am I A Race Traitor? Trayvon Martin, Gender Talk, and Invisible Black Women
By j.n. salters “Because of the continuous battle against racial erasure that black women and black men share, some black women still refuse to recognize that we are...
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Instant Messages: On White Womanhood, Fear of Black Men, and Changing Our Minds
By Abe Louise Young because because because as far as I can tell less than a thousand children playing in the garden of a thousand...
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The Burdens of Blackness
“It’s not hard being black, it’s just time-consuming is all.” I recall a schoolmate in undergrad once saying to me, in an attempt to empathize...
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Race Baiting? Our System Has Failed
By Alice Hunt Dear white friends—particularly my white, female friends—our system has failed us. This failure became ever more clear to me when I saw...
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Carrying Trayvon’s Body: What is to be done?
By Shana Redmond To live in this world as Black people is to be confronted by the possibility of harm at every turn, to live...
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White Feminists and Trayvon Martin
By Debra Guckenheimer Gender and racial inequality are intertwined in ways the Trayvon Martin case highlighted. Historically, the safety of White women has been used...
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To Sustain and Nourish Us as We Work for Justice
By Chris Crass To the mother who shared the story of her heart breaking when her six-year old autistic son told her, “don’t worry mom,...
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Trayvon and George: Why This Case is Really about Women
By Kelly Macías Like many other Americans, over the last three weeks I was firmly gripped by the George Zimmerman trial. I watched with anxiety...
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A Statement on the Reclamation of All Black Life: For Trayvon, Marissa, & Jordan
By Brothers Writing to Live We begin this collective statement by proclaiming a truth that has been rehearsed on countless occasions by many before us: The...
