Academia
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Disabilities Studies Gains Cultural Capital? And Now What?
By Alyson Patsavas I attended my very first Society for Disability Studies conference in the summer before I started a PhD program in disability studies....
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Fixing the World: A Feminist Intervention
Recently, NYU Press published 22 Ideas to Fix the World, edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa. It’s a fine book, full of smart, engaging, and...
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The Color of Teaching: Expectations of Mammy in the Classroom
By Manya Whitaker On October 24, 2013 the Center for American Progress released a report, The State of Women of Color in the United States. In...
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Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy (A conversation with editor Sekile Nzinga-Johnson)
Sekile Nzinga-Johnson is a BADDDDD sista in the Sonia Sanchez sense. She is a mother, educator, scholar, ruler of the roller derby scene as Malice...
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Feminists We Love: Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Chandra Talpade Mohanty (born in Mumbai India in 1955) is a postcolonial and transnational feminist theorist. She has degrees from University of Delhi and University...
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Feminist Cage Fight
By Darlena Cunha Welcome to the UFC’s (Unified Feminists Championship) main event tonight, folks. Refereeing this good match is the esteemed bell hooks, known for...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: President Crow: Take A Stand Against Rape Culture at ASU
By Sun Devils Against Sexual Assault President Michael Crow, Last week, we learned Executive Vice President and Provost Betty Phillips will be leaving Arizona State...
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I Love So That I May Teach
By Linh Hua In July 2008, my last formal teacher was brutally murdered. The formulation of that sentence—the recognition of that particular loss—only just recently...
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Yale’s Response to Campus Rape is Not Enough
By Sukjong Hong I long for the day when a woman can speak about her experience of rape with all the force of her convictions, as...
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LGBTQ Film Feature: “U People” Fifth Anniversary Interview with Hanifah Walidah
Nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2010, U People is a music video, a documentary LGBT film, and a...
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What Activists and Advocates Taught Us About the Future of Reproductive Justice
By Ed Goldman, Alexandra Minna Stern, Timothy Johnson, and Lisa Harris of the Program in Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice, University of Michigan In spring...
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My Tattoos are Not an Invitation
By Audrey Lundahl As a Coloradoan now living in Texas, the summer temperatures are trying. One way I cope is wearing heat-appropriate clothing. Wearing my...
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Equity at the Peril of Normativity: A Feminist Anthropological Take on Race, Marriage and Justice
By Dana-Ain Davis and Christa Craven Anthropologists take up many of the same issues as the Supreme Court–race, family and kinship, and historical inequities. The...
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Feminists We Love: Michele Wallace (Video)
Michele Wallace, Professor of English, Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the City College of New York and the City University of NY Graduate Center,...
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Feminists We Love: Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting (Video)
Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities (AADS and French). She teaches comparative diasporic literary and cultural movements, 18th & 19th century...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: My Journey to Feminism: How Feminism Inspired My Life
By Elizabeth Dorssom I first started referring to myself as a feminist when I was 17. Even though I didn’t identify as a feminist until I was...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Shattering Silence (Video)
By Molly Baker On April 23, University of Arizona student Dean Saxton, better known as Brother Dean, stood on a bench brandishing a sign that...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS:A Statement of Clarification Acknowledging The Presence of Rape Culture
By Dani Cofini and Kelly Casey According to feminist theory, rape culture is defined as the normalization, victim-blaming, and tolerance that often pardons rape and...
