Activism
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Waking Up to Rape Culture in Asheville
The first time I learned about rape culture was on the school bus. Soon after leaving the school parking lot, the boys in the row...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: DEAR SOCIETY, PLEASE CHANGE
By Jennifer Egbebike Dear Parents, When did it all begin? When did I start believing that in order to be an asset to society, I...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Quiet Miracle of Undocumented Immigration
By Fernanda Cunha At my parents’ new house there’s a cat who is always by the big-limbed tree in the front yard. It’s more bones...
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How Nike’s Neoliberal Feminism Came to Rule the Global South
By Maria Hengeveld The first time Nike tried to convince American consumers that it cared about women’s equality was in 1987, when the shoe giant aired...
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#Blacksexworkerslivesmatter: White-Washed ‘Anti-Slavery’ and the Appropriation of Black Suffering
By Robyn Maynard Claiming to be a modern-day anti-slavery ambassador is a highly profitable cause, one that is increasingly popular in Hollywood circles. Most recently, hundreds...
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“And God is the Water”: Reflections on the EPA Spill, Power, and the U.S. Southwest
By Katherine Freeman I gaze with profound horror upon pictures of the San Juan and Animas rivers, flowing a sickly yellow and orange through Totah,...
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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State (Part II)
By Carolyn Tyjewski The BlackLivesMatter movement was founded on the premise that we should centralize the most marginalized within the Black liberation movements of old....
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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State (Part I)
By Carolyn Tyjewski I’ve been an activist for decades, and always intentionally (and sometimes not) at the intersections of communities that are fighting similar battles. Whether...
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Why Did Sandra Bland Die? (And Why We Need a White Anti-Racist Feminist Posse)
By Zillah Eisenstein By now Sandra Bland’s name has been in the news for several weeks. A 28-year old Black woman is stopped by a...
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Act Out features TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis
Heidi R. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College and Associate Editor for TFW, was recently interviewed by Eleanor Goldfield on...
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Free Marissa Now and Stand With Nan-Hui: A Conversation About Parallel Struggles
Alisa Bierria, a member of the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign and a member of INCITE! and Hyejin Shim, an organizer with the Stand with...
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Memory and Violence: Old South Nostalgia in the Wake of the Emanuel AME Shooting
By Jamie Huff Since the recent killing of nine Black congregants at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME church on June 17, debates about the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Hillary Clinton for President? Why She’s Not the Woman We Need
By: Aviva DeKornfeld Hillary Clinton is a woman and as it turns out, this is big news. Back in 2012, both Clinton and Barak Obama...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter to My Ex, Nude Picture
By Kaitlin Harris Dear Gilbert, I wanted to say thank you. Thank you for keeping my private pictures (from two years ago, no less!)...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Nine Times She Felt Less Than Human
By Anonymous ...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: In the Hour of Consciousness: Three Poems by Kathryn Eichner
400 Lux Clouds forming cosmic rats—patchouli were the first and last words I wrote in my physics notebook...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Exploring Meghan Trainor’s “Feminist” Message
By Emily Wershba A “new” wave of feminism (and anti-feminism) in pop culture has resulted in a newfound respect for feminist pop songs and...
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Op-Ed: Broaden Sexual Assault Education and Legislation to Include All Students, in College and Not
By Maria Hengeveld Since its opening in 1895, Low Memorial Library has become one of Columbia University’s most admired architectural sites. Its magnificent façade...
