Education
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Personal is Political: Reconciling Feeling and Thinking: A Call to Action in the Name of Difference
By Rachel Edwards As a student in the first graduate class taught by Aishah Shahidah Simmons dedicated to the study of Audre Lorde’s life and...
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Personal is Political: Audre Speaks: Lordean Lessons for a White Man
By Chris Rupertus The very first thing I say to my seniors on the very first day of the semester is this: “I have a...
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The Forging of a Caribbean Feminist Consciousness: Laying Claim to Audre Lorde’s Legacy
By Donna Aza Weir-Soley Mothers are central to our identities. Even those of us who do not claim motherhood as central to how we define...
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The Magic and Fury of Audre Lorde: Feminist Praxis and Pedagogy
By Angelique V. Nixon I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic and the noon’s new...
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Op Ed: It’s Time to Answer the Call for Mobile Education
By Laura Odenthal As ringtones interrupt class and texting diverts attention, it is no wonder that many teachers view cell phones as a classroom distraction....
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Schooling the Generations: Education and the Relevance of Mumia Abu-Jamal in Times of Crisis
By Christopher M. Tinson Creating a classroom environment that fosters radical education first requires courage to confront uncomfortable truths about American society. Introducing students to Mumia...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Bloody Cage
By David Rojas Tony picked up Carlos at approximately 11:30 pm on a chilly, snowy December night. Holding onto the hose that would help incinerate...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Let Your Anger Consume the World, Not You
By Samantha Pevear I lie on my bed with my legs against the wall, feet arched towards the ceiling. I begin banging my heels into...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Girl(s) with the Pearl Earring(s)
By Renna Gottlieb I’m sitting in a small dining hall at Connecticut College, surrounded by about fifty of my student peers. My school is located...
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Feminist Theory: A College Forum
Last semester, I taught a course in feminist theory. The primary goal of this course was to have students read feminist theories, but with a...
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An Open Letter to UConn Students
By Judy Rohrer I am choosing the form of an open letter as a tribute to the courage UConn student Carolyn Luby showed when she...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: No More Civility: Putting an End to UConn’s Violence and Silence
By Martina Powell and Lauren Todd When University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst addressed the recently filed Title IX complaint against the university as “astonishingly...
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Crip Politics? Just … No
By Mark Sherry I have spent most of the last 20 years working with two main groups of disabled people: brain injury survivors and people who’ve...
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Cognitively Accessible Language (Why We Should Care)
By Elizabeth Grace If you use plain language to describe and discuss even complex theories, more people will be able to read your writing. Not...
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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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Violence Against Women Is Not A Cultural Tradition But A Crime
By Hope Wabuke On Tuesday, October 1, reports the India Times from Muzaffarnaga, India, two women in the Fugana village were gang raped, their homes burned to the ground...
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Op-Ed: Black Elders Need to Stop Demonizing Black Youth
By Aaron Talley Sometimes, I shudder to think that many of the Black elders fighting against Trayvon Martin’s death might have actually held the same...
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Carrying Trayvon’s Body: What is to be done?
By Shana Redmond To live in this world as Black people is to be confronted by the possibility of harm at every turn, to live...
