All posts by Guest Contributor
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Reclaiming Freedom of Speech
By Bruna Lobato In my first creative writing class as a Brazilian international student at a private American college I received my fiction assignment back...
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No “Madea” in Tyler Perry’s New Drama, “The Haves and the Have-Nots,” But Still, a Muddle of a Mess
By Lillie Anne Brown Ok, let me just start by acknowledging what I get: I get that Tyler Perry provides excellent employment opportunities for people of...
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Why Do White Guys Hate My Hijab?
By Zainab Khan Just last week, I graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. A few weeks before graduation, my best friend (the only other hijabi...
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AVERAGED: A Photo Essay
By Brook Dorff AVERAGED is a collection of photographs and personal histories taken in Andhra Pradesh, India. The documentation of stories and images in the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: (Video) Do You Know of Any Prominent Feminists?
By Ashley Yenick Do millennials know of any famous feminists in our society? There are many feminists mentioned in this video: bell hooks, Audrey Lorde, Peggy...
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An Open Letter to Kiera Wilmot and Other Black Girls Who Have Considered Giving Up When Their Science Projects and Assata Shakur Are Enuf
By j.n. salters Dear Kiera, Much like the hundreds of thousands of supporters who made phone calls, sent emails, and signed petitions urging prosecutors to drop...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Finding Black Feminism: A Revelation of Black Hair
By Ravon Ruffin I recently had the opportunity to do an assignment that required me to articulate the ways in which Black Feminist Thought applies...
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Sex, Art and Beautiful Garbage: An Interview With Author Jill Di Donato
By Julie Gillis I love art and I love women. As a feminist woman and as an artist, I’ve long been fascinated with the way...
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A Feminist Education
By Emily Turner This past year, I’ve been working in a low-performing school in the South Bronx as an academic coach and mentor to a...
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from Narrative & Nest by Danielle Vogel
from Narrative & Nest by Danielle Vogel Toward Untraumatizing the Sentence— If anything comes through in spite of all this, it is...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Some Thoughts From a Stuck-Up Jezebel
By Monique John Stereotypes are not new to me. I’m black and female—two identities that are the most oppressed of all, even in our ‘post-racial...
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Proximity and the Shifting Contours of Belonging
By Bo Luengsuraswat One decade is a long time. Ten years. One-zero. It’s the beginning of the next digit. A transition. One decade is a...
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Queens Among Princesses
By Kaila Philo We spend the majority of our days primping and preening dead protein adorning our crusty scalps as if, somehow, this dead...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: "Word Association: When You Hear the Word "Feminism" What Do You Think Of?
By Ashley Yenick The young women in this video believe in making a difference. It was astonishing to see that each mainly deployed two words:...
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Op-Ed: Debating Abortion
By Wanda Kolomyjec I find myself debating women, and I am weary. They speak of their belief that abortion might be murder, that it is...
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Walking the Tightrope: Good Indian Girls, Race, and Bad Sexuality
By Chaya Babu I was a few weeks into my freshman year at Duke when my sister, a senior at the time, said to me,...
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Are All the Women Still White? Kermit Gosnell, “Back Alley” Abortions, and the Politics of Motherhood
By j.n. salters Last week, Kermit Gosnell—the African-American “late-term abortionist” who delivered live babies and then stuck scissors in the backs of their necks and...
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Towards Community Wellness: Healing from Trauma through Yoga
By Jardana Peacock Some stories you don’t want to tell. Some places you just don’t want to return to. But some stories destroy you unless...