All posts by Guest Contributor
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The Visits: A Love Note for Brothers Inside
By Breea C. Willingham The 5 ½ hour drive to Hunlock Creek, PA is always filled with conflicting emotions. I’m excited about seeing my brother,...
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A Love Note to Black Mothers on Mother's Day
By j.n. salters This letter is for my mother. Our mothers. Grandmothers. Aunts. Sisters. All of the other black women who continue to raise black...
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Op-Ed: Why We Should Ditch the Slow Food Movement
By Karen Hernandez Apparently, pursuing Women’s Right’s has led to the downfall of the American diet. At least, this is what Michael Pollan unfairly implies...
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Why My Kingdom Needs Janelle Monae’s Q.U.E.E.Ndom
By Hashim Pipkin I am not a black woman. And unlike many who are not, I do not claim to be able to speak for the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: “It’s Just a Harmless Advertisement”: On Liposuction, Media, and Perpetuation of Sexism
By Alyssa Gockley Several weeks ago, Bucknell University published its weekly campus newspaper. While just about every edition of The Bucknellian has some article or...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS:A Statement of Clarification Acknowledging The Presence of Rape Culture
By Dani Cofini and Kelly Casey According to feminist theory, rape culture is defined as the normalization, victim-blaming, and tolerance that often pardons rape and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter Addressing the UConn Community
By Victoria Rossetti, Rebecca Barton, and Stephanie Naranjo To the UConn Community: This letter is in response to the events surrounding Carolyn Luby’s open letter...
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Dar Luz: Shedding Light on Birth and Reproductive Health for Latinas
By Ynanna Djehuty Latinas in the United States are facing many of the same concerns regarding birthing and reproductive health care as our African-American sisters....
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Are Men to Be Trusted? Thoughts on Sexual Assault and the Chain of Command
By Bill Patrick This week brought the startling news of the arrest of Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, the officer in charge of the Air Force’s...
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Poem Suite: Home
In our Poem Suites, we publish work by beginning and emerging witers, gathered according to theme. In this Suite, we feature three poets exploring various...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Video: What is Feminism?
By Ashley Yenick During this video, I consulted two students and two professors at Merrimack College. I hand picked these interviewees because they contribute to millennial...
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Fear and Convenience
By Anis Gisele “Did he hurt you, in a new way?” —Fear and Convenience, Thao Nguyen And you were finally free to call yourself gay....
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Confession
By Nancy Kricorian Back when I earned my MFA in Poetry at Columbia, the majority of the students were women, and nearly all of our...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Using the 'F' Word as a Queer WOC
By Claudia Chen The other day I was watching student presentations in my African American Women’s History class. One of the students’ research, which focused...
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Op Ed: An Open Letter to the Mainstream LGBT Movement
“There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives.” – Audre Lorde Dear Mainstream LGBT Movement,...
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Spreading the Good Word: "Towards Collective Liberation" by Chris Crass
By Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Have you read Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis and Movement Building Strategy by Chris Crass yet? Well, if you haven’t...
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It's Open Girl-Meat Season
By Jawahara Saidullah “Kya maal hai.” What good stuff. “Bilkul sahi cheez yaar.” Absolutely, great stuff, man. Maal means, stuff, thing, or merchandise. So does...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Seemingly Crazy, Yet Sincere Call for a Bra-less Revolution
By Elvia Lopez Bill Cosby knows that kids say the darndest things. Lying by the pool yesterday, I overheard my little brother tell my rather...