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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Mind Over Misogynoir
By Zahara Hill My melanin was supposed to feel magical. But after centuries of being fooled into an identity created on false notions of undesirability,...
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Request for Representation (or Why I Said “No” to Nightline)
By Charmaine Daboiku The email said “ABC News/Nightline Request for Info” in the subject line. I thought it was spam, and I almost deleted it....
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Cunt-a-loupe
By Holly Ryan Taken of the artist, by the artist, Cunt-a-loupe explores a woman’s individual sexuality as a pleasureful and empowering experience. The photograph is inspired...
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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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Personal Is Political: Coming Home
By Soumitree Gupta This piece is a response to all those occasions when I’ve been asked the “home” question—where I’m from—and I’ve struggled to condense...
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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, New Shoes: Cinderella after the Ball
By Judy Leigh She will need new shoes. She looks at her feet, the sore feet, the feet that danced all night. The feet...
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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 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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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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martina pronounces her own name (ode to June Jordan)
By Martina “Mick” Powell for June Jordan this is how i learn it: her black and in cropped cut and singsong her in a summer water, the florida of it...
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the oath
june's voice was a stranger in my mouth. she did not equivocate or dissemble; she did not hide her meaning in metaphor; she did not...
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A Love Note to June Jordan from Margo Okazawa-Rey
You loved South African women struggling to Free South Africa and wrote for them “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Your love of...
