All posts by Guest Contributor
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Assata: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
by Rizvana Bradley The trial scene that concludes the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God glimpses a specific form of panoptic enclosure that has given...
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Assata, Radicalism and Love
By Jessica Horn To meditate on the meaning of Assata Shakur is to meditate on the meaning of a vibrant tradition of revolutionary black women’s...
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Guided Home to Port: Assata Shakur, State Terror, and Black Resistance
By Connie Wun Domestic Terror: On May 2, 2013, the FBI placed Assata Shakur on its Most Wanted Terrorist list and, with the help of...
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“r/evolutionary love sounds: a mixtape for Assata”
By Amina Doherty rev·o·lu·tion noun ˌre-və-ˈlü-shən 1. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system; 2. the movement...
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3 poems by Hannah Ensor
Marriage A man and a woman stretch in a courtyard. They are both very complicated. I am looking at a photograph of them. You...
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My Tattoos are Not an Invitation
By Audrey Lundahl As a Coloradoan now living in Texas, the summer temperatures are trying. One way I cope is wearing heat-appropriate clothing. Wearing my...
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The Downfalls of Feminism and Why I Am Still a Feminist
By Eren Cervantes-Altamirano I knew I was a feminist when I was in the third grade. Then, I was an aspiring class president in a classroom...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Black Sitcom: A Representation We Can Be Proud Of
By Jeanine Russaw When you look in the mirror, how do you see yourself? In a perfect world, whenever a black woman looks in a mirror,...
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Op-Ed: The Military's Culture of Sexual Violence
By Carrie Reed Earlier this year, a monumental announcement came from Department of Defense lifting the ban on women serving in combat roles. However, women...
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Reading Rachel
By Rashna Batliwala Singh “Are you listening?” Rachel Jeantel asked defense attorney Don West in the trial of George Zimmerman, as he seemed to turn and...
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Dispatch from the 'Very House of Difference': Anti-Black Racism and the Expansion of Sexual Citizenship – OR – We Need to Do So Much Better at Loving Each Other
By Kai M. Green and Treva Ellison We (Treva and Kai) are Black, queer, trans, and anti-capitalist scholars, activists, and artists based in Los Angeles,...
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Featured Poet: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
By LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs bacche kā pōtRā bloom, the dandelion dance of Keisha’s mane. a Wave of bush. her kitchen pearls &...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Chef D'ouvre
By Kaila Philo Douse my skin with bleach, I want to watch it sizzle. There it goes! The brown sky begins to lighten as the bright...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Be the Bitch
By Nora Turriago Imagine, for a moment, you are Taylor Swift. You have luscious golden locks, yes, but for the moment brush them aside: there are...
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Op Ed: Paternalism, Not Protection: A Feminist Reassessment of the Burqa and Niqab
By Aicha Marhfour Yesterday, I opened a Facebook message from an old friend, touched that she was thinking of me after many years. But the...
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Thoughts of My Father: Though They Had Been Drivers They Had To Be Forgiven
By Farah Tanis In this country and throughout slave colonies in the Caribbean, South and Central America and Africa, drivers were those Black slaves whom...
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Equity at the Peril of Normativity: A Feminist Anthropological Take on Race, Marriage and Justice
By Dana-Ain Davis and Christa Craven Anthropologists take up many of the same issues as the Supreme Court–race, family and kinship, and historical inequities. The...
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3 poems by Deborah Poe
The Mourners some, hooded, hide their faces hands inside their sleeves some, uncovered, wipe their tears, brood in fabric’s fold mourning...
