A Commitment to/with/for The Damned

We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read a collective statement from The Damned Collective to/with/for The Damned. We ask that you read...

Lessons from the Damned, 2018

By. Dr. G & Dr. Kimberly S. Love “The slaves who...

IT IS TIME — #Feminism4the99

By Zillah Eisenstein On March 8th women—in our complex identities—across the globe and...

Trans Multitudes and Death Reality: A Coda

Tw; Death Reality. I’ve come to accept that I will die....

EMERGING FEMINISMS, International Women’s Day

By Macy Casper In March, we celebrated International Women’s Day. I was...

EMERGING FEMINISMS, Flanked by Rappers and TV Anchors @ AAPI Music and Media
By Guest Contributor on May 18, 2017
By Celine Parreñas Shimizu Typically, academics are neither seen as relaxed like rappers nor glamorous like news anchors. So when invited to be on a panel...
EMERGING FEMINISMS, The People’s Champ
By Guest Contributor on March 20, 2017
By Adam Szetela Ronda Rousey shattered the UFC’s conservative stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, now she is taking the fight to Donald Trump. ...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART THREE
By Guest Contributor on March 9, 2017
By Lina Chhun In this post-inauguration period, we are living with what may seem to be a very keen tension—that tension between the dangers of...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART TWO
By Guest Contributor on March 6, 2017
By Lina Chhun A few months after returning from dissertation work abroad, I attended a talk with Professor Aisha Finch at UCLA. The talk expanded...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART ONE
By Guest Contributor on March 2, 2017
By Lina Chhun Today I sat in my car and I waited for the sun to set. I can’t remember the last time I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, 1 in 4
By Guest Contributor on January 30, 2017
By Courtney Sylvester **Content Warning: sexual violence, rape** 1 in 4 finally gets invited to a party 1 in 4 gets ready for a party...
EMERGING FEMINISMS, @catcallsofnyc
By Guest Contributor on January 12, 2017
By Sophie Sandberg I’ve always liked dressing in a “feminine” way. I love sundresses, low cut shirts, short skirts. I like how these clothes look...
EMERGING FEMINISMS, Where Flowers Can Grow
By Guest Contributor on November 3, 2016
By Anastasia L. **Content Notice: discussion of sexual assault and violence** When I was twelve, I was first sexually assaulted by a relative while we...
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It’s the Whispers
By Guest Contributor on October 27, 2016
Current activism about everything from the school-to-prison pipeline to police violence notes that our Black children are deemed older than we really are, with knowledge...
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activist, poet, prison abolitionist, human rights advocate, incest and rape survivor
By Guest Contributor on October 26, 2016
I don’t need an “apology” from the harm doers in my life to actually heal. I don’t need a pitiful recognition to liberate myself. Amends...
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Sunset: Seeking True Accountability After All of These Years
By Guest Contributor on October 24, 2016
I am a CEO of a national nonprofit working to end violence against ALL women by centralizing the voices and leadership of women of color,...
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In My Mother’s Name: Restorative Justice for Survivors of Incest
By Guest Contributor on October 24, 2016
My mother devoted the latter part of her life to healing herself, reclaiming her power, confronting her abusers and raising a daughter who would one...
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Accountability to Ourselves and Our Children
By Guest Contributor on October 20, 2016
What we know is that child sexual abuse is an epidemic. It is traumatic. Surviving it increases the chances that you will be sexually assaulted...