Book Review
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Carter as Kristof: How Jimmy Carter’s New Book Takes a Page Out of Nick Kristof’s Savior Narrative
By Sayantani DasGupta Jimmy Carter is undoubtedly a good man with good intentions. He was, in fact, one of my first heroes. He was the...
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Genderqueering Spaces with Sassafras
By Basil Soper The first time I met Sassafras Lowrey was in 2011 at a queer studies conference in Asheville, NC. I had the pleasure of...
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“Dangerous girl. The dream of my life.”: Nadia Abou-Karr’s The Iconoclast: Revolutionary Love Poems
Right now I am growing more dangerous. I am growing into a woman who expresses her needs. I am not expressing my needs to make...
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Writing Herstory and Resisting Invisibility: A Review of Janet Mock’s Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Cisgender heterosexuals and lesbian/gay/bisexual people too often disregard the lived experiences and interior lives of transgender women and men—even in these queer times. The preferred...
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A Review of “Undoing Border Imperialism”
By Erin Durban-Albrecht On the morning of October 11, 2013, activists of all ages in my hometown of Tucson put their bodies on the line—chaining...
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Why Sikivu Hutchinson’s Latest Book Is Relevant To an Angry Romani Ex-Muslim
By Maryam Moosan-Clark In Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels, Sikivu Hutchinson takes us on a roller coaster ride through the different, interacting forms of...
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Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (Book Review)
By David B. Green, Jr. I have learned through the process of story telling and sharing that we all come from various walks of life...
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A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia
A Review of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia By Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde Women of color in academia are at...
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Book Review: “A Penny Saved” by Arisa White
A Penny Saved, by Arisa White (Willow Books) Reviewed by Sarah Mantilla Griffin Between September 2001 and June 2012, far more American women...
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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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A Review of Bushra Rehman’s “Corona”
“I am not that kind of an Indian,” says Razia Mirza, thus uttering all that can and needs to be said. In Bushra Rehman’s new...
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Sex, Art and Beautiful Garbage: An Interview With Author Jill Di Donato
By Julie Gillis I love art and I love women. As a feminist woman and as an artist, I’ve long been fascinated with the way...
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Book Review: Marci Blackman's "Tradition"
By Quincy Scott Jones Town and Country: A Review of Marci Blackman’s Tradition (Water Street Press, 2013) In the most brilliant crimes stories, the detective must travel,...
