Education
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Ending the Colonial/Modern Occupation of Indigenous Women’s Bodies in Guatemala and Perú
By Pascha Bueno-Hansen On Friday, March 4, 2016, a group of survivors, advocates, and activists occupied the entrance to the Peruvian national criminal court,...
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Personal Is Political: The Negation, Negotiation and Alteration of the Brown Girl Body Unfair and Lovely
By Mirusha Yogarajah I am the Eelam Tamil co-founder of Unfair and Lovely and these are my experiences. Please do not attempt to refute them,...
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Why I’m Glad ICDC College May Be Closing
No one who knows me would be surprised that I watch Maury, The Steve Wilkos Show, and Judge Mathis when I get to work from home....
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Where are the Brown Women At?
By Mirusha Yogarajah Watching the show Master of None inscribed a sense of self-worth in me. My identity was relevant enough to be represented...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Love Me for Who I Am
By Natasha Chanto I am nothing like the girls advertised in by the media. I am 5’1”, I weigh 125 pounds, my breasts are...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Bracelets
By Sarena Tien You slide the bracelet over your hand, expecting it to fall straight down your forearm. “Hey,” you say to your friend,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, If College Heterosexual, Cis Men were Raped More than Everyone Else
By Julie Winterich If you find this title ugly, you’re right. It’s jarring and upsetting. So is sexual violence. I’m a professor of sociology...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, What I Have Learned from the Women Who Have “Lost”
By Taylor Bak I will write these poems until I prove you wrong, I will write these poems even if they’re a “waste...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, A Historical Note: Pan-African Feminist Adelaide Casely Hayford
By Keisha Blain Adelaide Casely Hayford was, as she once described herself, a “race woman through and through.” Like Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Una Marson, and...
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“Naming Our Destiny”: Afterword to The Feminist Wire’s Forum on June Jordan
This online gathering represents a tiny sampling of all those whose lives have been influenced, impacted, ignited, and inspired by June Jordan’s relentless and fiercely...
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Ode to June Jordan’s ‘A Poem about My Rights’
Inspired by the work of June Jordan we have both offered artistic, sonic, and poetic meditations on June Jordan’s, A Poem about My Rights.
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A Conjuring: Love Supreme: June Jordan, Love Note for JJ
By Alexis De Veaux Conjuring I do not meet June Jordan. I encounter her. The way one encounters what one cannot see- force, cosmic energy,...
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A Legacy of Resistance
words run deep, trickling through layers of Israeli propaganda and lies spoonfed to American audiences of CNN and FOX News. She wove truth...
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The Occupation Stole My Words, June Jordan Helped me to Relocate Them
Black feminist poet warrior scholar June Jordan traveled with me from my apartment in Bedstuy (or Bedford-Stuyvesant as she named the urban neighborhood in Brooklyn...
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June Jordan Solves the Energy Crisis: Love is Lifeforce
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Not many people are turning to black feminist texts from the 1970s as their major strategy for addressing the current climate...
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For June
In our current times of collective struggle’s reinvigoration, the life and works of June Jordan provide vital lessons. Writing between the 1960s and the early...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Spectacle of the Transgender Child
By Harper Keenan In recent years, the Internet has spawned a variety of new short film genres, including “The Cute Animal Video,” “The Lip Sync...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Screws, Servos, and Sexism: How Men Almost Made Me Quit Engineering
By Jordan Prochnow During my sophomore year in high school, I joined the robotics team. The majority of the team consisted of mostly boys;...
