All posts by Guest Contributor
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For My Sistah(s): A Black Feminist Queer Consciousness-Raising Book List
By Kiyan Williams I am the over-protective older brother of a fourteen-year old young black woman. And I am worried for her. I was worried...
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Women Running: Kristine Kuzemka
Name: Kristine Kuzemka Candidate for: Las Vegas City Council Interviewed by: Wanda Kolomyjec Why are you running for office? The opportunity came up....
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Black Women Take Back Style: How Technology has Changed the Game
By Naomi Extra As a black girl growing up in the suburbs of New York there were three visible black female icons that I saw...
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Ashley/Amber: A Review
By Neima Jahromi Director Rebecca R. Rojer’s short film, Ashley/Amber focuses on a young woman named Ashley (Diane Guerrero) who receives an overwhelming amount of...
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“See Something, Say Something”: The Case of Trayvon Martin
By: Edgar Rivera Colón, PhD The recent vigilante murder of young Trayvon Martin affords, albeit tragically, an important moment for taking stock in this country...
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Rejecting the Rhetoric of the “Second Shift” and Insisting on Equity
By Sara Hosey At a recent meeting of a feminist group of which I am a member, a colleague referred to me as an example...
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Too Short and the Feminists
By Ron B. Neal What happens when a feminist, a group of feminists or feminism as an ideology engages one of the most explicitly and...
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Dear Trayvon…You Will Not be Forgotten
By: Lauren Wells, PhD Dear Trayvon, Most numbing of all is that there is nothing strange about what happened to you. Our boys and men...
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Coming Into Consciousness
By Miani Giron In the three years that I’ve been involved in the Women’s Leadership Project (WLP) my awareness and outlook on social issues have...
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Why Ethnic Studies Matters
By Arizona Ethnic Studies Network On February 29, 2012, members of the Arizona Ethnic Studies Network held a Read-in at Wesley Bolin Plaza across from...
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Living with Mentally Ill Parents
By J. Victoria Sanders Walking with my mom, Maggie, as a kid, I heard someone call her crazy. She wore her black wigs until, with...
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Welcome to Motherhood
By Natashia Deón If at dawn, I walked out into a busy intersection and Was swept away by a glorious symphony— Tires screeching, Glass exploding,...
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Sex, Politics, and the Single Latina
By Melissa Blanco Borelli I like to have sex, and lots of it. The kind of back arching, toe curling sex that is non-missionary and...
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Becoming an Activist
By Lizeth Lopez Butterflies flutter around me as I feel the soft winds playing with my hair, the scent of spring flowers blooming surround me,...
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Undocumented and Unafraid
By Janeth Silva Each morning as I enter the prison-like gates of Gardena High School, I see our dean, Mr. Sieslove, with his metal detector...
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Inspiring Girls to Author Their Own Lives
By Vali Forrister When my niece, Haviland, was 12 years old, she shared her poetry with me for the first time. I told her it...
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Stealing Our Language
By Gwendoline Y. Fortune Food and love, who (and what) we vote for, what we deem good or bad, what we want and hate—all rise...
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From One White Gay Male to Another: Calling out the Implicit Racism in Dan Savage's ‘Liberal’ Politics & the ‘It gets better’ Campaign"
By Kirk Grisham The recent launch of Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” campaign on MTV networks is failing to gain momentum among progressives because the campaign itself...