All posts by Guest Contributor
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Visual Art: "The Capture," 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...
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Black Feminist and Dominican: How Black Male Writers Shape My Practice
By Rosa Cabrera When the door opened, my grandmother’s arms wound lightly around my torso as she kissed the air beside my cheek, missing the...
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Visual Art: "Cupcake Feminism" by Lynn Gehl−Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe
Lynn Gehl−Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe, Ph.D. is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley. She has a section 15 Charter challenge regarding the continued sex discrimination...
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Race and Community Accountability
By Qui Dorian Alexander I came into feminism as a butch Latina lesbian at a women’s college. Today I stand as a brown queer trans...
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Why is UConn's Mascot a Rape Meme?
By Soraya L. Chemaly Two days ago, Carolyn Luby, an undergraduate at University of Connecticut published a remarkable open letter to the school’s president, Susan Herbst, in The...
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Un-Raced in Transit : Colorblindness and the Stakes of Speaking Up
By Marlaina H. Martin For every one of the countless times that I have thought about race, I can name a handful in which I...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Beyond Duty
By Paul Seltzer On August 23, 2012, the George Washington University’s independent student newspaper, The GW Hatchet, reported that rising senior Tori Guy was transferring. ...
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Film: "Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights" by Nevline Nnaji
Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights is a feature-length documentary that focuses on black women’s marginalization between the Black Power and Feminist movements, as...
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Visual Art: "usda nba filet mignon" by Theresa Anderson
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...
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Tilting At Windmills
By Rebecca Miriam The thing is: you can let it go. You can shut down your browser, or throw away that newspaper, or turn off your...
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Some of Us Believe: A Racial Narrative on Catholic Feminist Hybridity
By Lisa Factora-Borchers I’m aware that religion, faith, and spirituality are not physical attributes. But for some of us who were inculcated in Filipino Catholicism,...
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Building a Racial Justice Praxis
By Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Have you ever had moments in your life that you know have changed you forever? Moments that shifted your consciousness, changed how you...
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No Easy Walk to ‘Total Freedom’
By Josh Cerretti and Theresa Warburton What does it mean for a white person living in a white supremacist society to label themselves an ‘anti-racist...
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Visual Art: "brown sugar" by Theresa Anderson
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...
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Two Poems by Vanessa Huang
voice of hunger Dear Adrienne, The moment of change . you honor. ripples me . in bittersweet wonder—. the...
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White and Yellow: Overcoming Racism
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim Race Relations “It’s so nice and warm on the inside that you forget that there’s an outside. The worst of it...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter to UConn President Susan Herbst
Dear President Susan Herbst, I write to you today as a UConn student, but more specifically as a UConn woman and feminist. I want to...
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Clearing the Path for the Turtle
By Lynn Gehl − Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe Recently I stated that unless “we” stand behind the person who is most oppressed, “we” will not gain the genuine...