All posts by Guest Contributor
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Reckoning: Race and Sexual Assault in Colombia
By Stacia Penn I am a young black American living in Colombia. My life in Medellin has been a multi-faceted privilege, affording me access to...
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Love Note To My Sistars
By Joy KMT The hardest thing for a traumatized people to do is look in the mirror and love themselves, and their reflections. I say...
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Visual Art: "What I Should Have Said" 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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Your Feminism Ain’t Like Ours, Because We Are Raising Quvenzhané
By Duchess Harris In Lonnae O’Neal Parker’s January 18 Washington Post article “Four Years Later, Feminists Split by Michelle Obama’s ‘Work’ as First Lady,” she includes a...
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The Many-Headed Hydra: A Sentimental Nature Poem
By Debbie Hu oh ghost of double-headed neglected sunflower... are you arching your spine towards this literally splendiferous sunrise, are you inclining your double ghost...
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The Tragedy of a Failed Politic
By Farah Tanis, Kalima DeSuze, and Nikki Patin Black Women’s Blueprint It is over 180 years since the abolition movement, 165 years since women’s suffrage,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: You Become an Anti-Racist Feminist
By Cori Mattli When you are 18 and in college, you take a class that introduces you to feminism. You like thinking about feminist theory–it gives...
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Op-Ed: Inconceivable! Detaching Motherhood from Femininity
By Nicole Verdes Last week, Isabella Dutton, a 57-year-old mother of two in the United Kingdom, wrote a first-person story for the Daily Mail wherein she...
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Marriage Equality and Beyond: A View from India
A few days before my Facebook News Feed was flooded with red equal signs, I went to a short march in Bangalore. The Gender and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Why I Haven't Given Up on Hip-Hop
By Amber Jones When did you first fall in love with hip-hop? This question frames one of my favorite films, Brown Sugar (2002). The film...
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Rage against the patriarchy, Dr. Nikita Levy, and the devaluation of black women
By j.n. salters I was compelled to complain because I feel that the vast majority of black folks who are subjected daily to forms of racial...
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Poems by Kristen Nelson
A selected catalog of my altar from left to right The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Perpetuating Patriarchy (And Other Liberal Arts-isms)
By Natalie Olivo The true tempo of my college’s student body occasionally emerges on a double-sided sheet of paper that circulates around campus five days a...
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Find the Good in Women Who Aren't Margaret Thatcher
By Ren Jender “She must have been miserable,” one of my Facebook “friends” wrote as a kind of eulogy for Margaret Thatcher. I had to...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Millennial Feminists, Stand Up!
By Ashley Yenick Many college-aged women have a skewed view of feminism and how it might apply to them. Millennial feminism was brought to my...
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Op-Ed: Egg Freezing: WTF?*
By Lynn M. Morgan and Janelle S. Taylor Marcia Inhorn’s recent CNN commentary, “Women, consider freezing your eggs” is certainly right about one thing: “Trying...
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First To Die: Evil Dead and Blackness in Horror
By Joshua Alston The victor in this weekend’s box-office battle was Evil Dead, the remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult-classic horror film, which roared into...
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Meditations of a Deviant Daughter
By Tanwi Nandini Islam When something happened. An allusion to something ominous from the distant past. I documented my rape thoroughly in my creative work,...