All posts by Guest Contributor
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Tight Places: Cozy or Uncomfortable?
By Kimberly Dark I had a moment of judgment toward my potential seatmate as I walked up the airplane aisle and saw him. I wasn’t...
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In Our Solitude
By Tanwi Nandini Islam Let’s begin with a riddle: What’s something that exhausts itself, yet never disappears? A few answers: Self. Others. Identity. Love. I’m...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: 2 Poems by Chenusa Yomoah
“Ode to Eyeliner” It would be so easy to forget vanity. Parisians preen themselves in shop windows and the Tokyo metro is a powder room,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Capitalism: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
By Ariane Beckman A few months ago, The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper published at my school, Colorado College, published an article entitled “Why I...
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Visual Art: "mr. rager" by Theresa Anderson
Theresa Anderson is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist and a writer whose art blog was selected as a top five finalist by the Westword 2012 Denver Web Awards....
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A Love Note to Sisters in Struggle
By Leah Sicat March 31, 2013 Dear Sisters, I have learned, over time, that it’s a man’s world in which some men hate women, some...
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Moving the Margins to the Centre: Shifting from Anti-Racist to Pro-Black
By Hana Riaz For many Women of Colour feminists globally and in the West, our struggle with mainstream feminism remains an arduous and painful one....
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Confessions of a Complicated Latina Feminist
By Juliana Britto Schwartz “You Americans, why are you so obsessed with labels?” The way my Brazilian cousin looks at me, she might as well...
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The Living Museum
By Rachana Pathak PART 1 I am your living museum For you to idealize – The village life Happy peasants Smoking beedis in the fields...
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Un-Women's Liberation
By James Bliss And I wonder what I may be risking as I become more and more committed to telling whatever truth comes across my eyes...
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Visual Art: "Moving Forward," by Florine Demosthene
Florine Demosthene earned her BFA from Parsons the New School for Design and her MFA from Hunter College. She has shown extensively through group and...
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Mother-Love: Reflections of an Asian American Feminist Daughter
By Vickie Nam The rift that steadily deepened between my mother and I emerged in the throes of adolescence, and mid-90s White feminism did little...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter in Response to the Backlash at Uconn
By Nathaniel Herter I’d like to preface this article by noting that while news stories might upset, they rarely leave me shaking with rage, and that...
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Op Ed: Defying Antiblackness at UC Irvine—and Everywhere
By John Murillo III The University of California, Irvine’s Black Student Union continues to act in response to one instance in a lengthy genealogy of...
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Silence Does Not Equal Absence: Lessons from Arizona
By Wendy Cheng When I heard what writers at The Onion had tweeted about nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis during the Oscars, I felt it as a...
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A Love Note for Movement
By Purvi Shah The work of ending violence and enabling gender equity is hard. The victories are too rare, the celebrations too brief. And so...
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The Politics of Reading: A Love Note for Stephen Ray
By Shannon Craigo-Snell I was weeping in the parking lot. The required seminar in the Ivy League graduate program had just let out for the...
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Visual Art: "bang bang" by Theresa Anderson
________________________________________________________ Theresa Anderson is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist and a writer whose art blog was selected as a top five finalist by the Westword 2012 Denver...