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A Love Note to Black Mothers on Mother's Day
By j.n. salters This letter is for my mother. Our mothers. Grandmothers. Aunts. Sisters. All of the other black women who continue to raise black...
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Fear and Convenience
By Anis Gisele “Did he hurt you, in a new way?” —Fear and Convenience, Thao Nguyen And you were finally free to call yourself gay....
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Black Feminist and Dominican: How Black Male Writers Shape My Practice
By Rosa Cabrera When the door opened, my grandmother’s arms wound lightly around my torso as she kissed the air beside my cheek, missing the...
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White and Yellow: Overcoming Racism
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim Race Relations “It’s so nice and warm on the inside that you forget that there’s an outside. The worst of it...
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Across Difference, Toward Liberation: An Introduction to TFW’s Forum on Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminism
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Heather Laine Talley Perhaps in this twenty-four hour news cycle culture, the horrid sexist and racist sexualization of nine-year old...
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Meditations of a Deviant Daughter
By Tanwi Nandini Islam When something happened. An allusion to something ominous from the distant past. I documented my rape thoroughly in my creative work,...
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Radical Birthwork as an Act of Resistance
By Ynanna Djehuty I like to open with definitions. The usage of words and knowing the weight they hold is important to all discourse, regardless...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Elementary Feminisms: Majoring in English
By Monica Torres When I sign my name, it’s Monica, not Mónica. When I order pupusas at my favorite restaurant, the waiter will give my...
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Defense of Marriage: Racism, Family Values and the 99%
As the lead attorney for Proposition 8 trotted out the standard Christian fascist “marriage is only for procreation” party line before the Supreme Court yesterday,...
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Disclosure
By David J. Malebranche His 26 year old body was calculating comfortable, sprawled over a disheveled collection of towels and sheets constituting a makeshift mattress,...
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Maternal Evil?
By Keira Williams Before she jumped eight stories to her death, Cynthia Wachenheim left a thirteen-page suicide letter explaining that she was a bad mother....
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A Declaration: Toward A New Politics of Black Female Sexuality*
I want to begin this essay by declaring my stake and investment in the project of rearticulating and reframing narratives around Black female sexuality. I...
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Feminist in My Kitchen
By Nilofar Ansher The Romantic Tedium of Cooking Our notions of love and nurture are bound with the flavor, texture and warmth of food cooked...
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Masculinity and Domestic Violence: A Conversation with Sally MacNichol and Quentin Walcott, Co-Executive Directors of CONNECT
Quentin: It’s interesting that Sally and I were invited to talk about masculinity and domestic violence; these are two issues that are often seen as...
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The Shapings of Black Masculinities
The B52 bus picks up passengers on the corner of Gates and Lewis Avenue in the mostly working poor to middle class, black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood...
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The Pulaski Skyway of Our Manhoods
By Edgar Rivera Colón The jet black steel girders arched like aging flexed muscles fill my mind as I remember car rides with my Dad...
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Take the Shackles Off My Feet So I Can Dance*: A Call to End Gender Policing
By Robert Jones, Jr. Real men aren’t polite; politeness is for sissies. Body posturing is everything; real men don’t cross their legs at the knee...
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For Tanya With Love
It has been almost one year since Tanya McDowell was sentenced in a Bridgeport, Connecticut courtroom to five years in prison. Police charged McDowell for...
