All posts by Guest Contributor
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America's Autumn: A Time for Growth Amidst Struggle
By Darnell L. Moore These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the...
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Featured Poet: Metta Sáma
Sign. Signifier. Signify. Signified: an American African ghazal I’ve heard Death is a white man in black tie, a man captive in a trick of...
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Dispatch from Occupy Wall Street
By Jennifer K Uleman Tuesday, October 11, 2011: I went back down to Occupy Wall Street today. I’d been down on Saturday, for the first...
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In Support of Occupy Wall Street
By Zillah Eisenstein and Chandra Talpade Mohanty “Occupy Wall Street” is an incredible movement even if there is no easily ready-made pre-existing political language to...
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Wangari Maathai Obituary (1941-2011)
By Sonalini Kaur Sapra Wangari Maathai has been an inspiration to many for her unflagging passion and commitment to women’s rights and environmental justice. She...
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Spotlight Poet: Donika Ross
Whale Know, first, that she does not remain behind the baleen forever. Know, too, that the whale is unaware of the woman drowning on its...
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Featured Poet: Ama Codjoe
Red Clay Blues I call on my baby, say save some honey for me. ‘Cause everyday and I need some honey, —–and you best save...
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Featured Poet: Kamilah Aisha Moon
A SUPERWOMAN CHOOSES ANOTHER WAY TO FLY woke up again parched from a dream / full of old water, the only urgent tide / in...
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Tamar and Troy, or, When Can We Cry?
By Ashon Crawley But when brought them near to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me,...
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Gloria Steinem and "NO! The Rape Documentary"
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons Gloria Steinem is a Second Wave White Feminist pioneer who, for over 40 years and counting, has been at the forefront...
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Dunham in the Air: A Reflection on Radical Choreographies and Programming Social Justice
By Aimee Meredith Cox, Ph.D. Retrograde I was on my way to Santa Fe last summer marveling at the technology that allowed me to be...
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The Women in Tahrir Square
Editor’s Note: In light of the most recent examples of resistance and protest in Egypt, we offer this reminder and analysis of events earlier in the year. Let us keep...
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Featured Poet: Anne Marie Rooney
Elegy in which the film degrades —————————1 She has seen the angle a man shudders into. / The slab of haunch a promise. This woman /...
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Making the Left TRANSPARENT; An Anti-Racist Feminist Friendly Critique, Again
By Zillah Eisenstein These are strange times. Rupert Murdoch and his media empire are finally exposed for hacking and deception and there is some accounting...
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A Review: Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project by Charles “Chas” Brack
By Darnell Moore “Sakia Latona Gunn: We Will Remember Her Name” (2008). Charles B. Brack (Producer) and Co-Produced with Third World Newsreel. Color; 58 minutes;...
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Music Feature: Diallo Hall on Sudanese "Girls' Music" and Artist Alsarah
In one of my favorite songs by Afro Beat progenitor Fela Kuti, he exclaims: If you call woman African woman no go ‘gree She go...
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Fitting In, In Beijing
My decision to go to Beijing, China for a summer literature institute provoked a variety of responses in those with whom I shared my plans. ...
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Bad “Bitches,” True Women
By Sikivu Hutchinson As Middle America shuffles out of its hangover from the Casey Anthony trial and into the debt ceiling morass, the war on...
