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Stronger Than You Know
By J.B. My rapist didn’t look like a monster. He was a six-foot, brown-haired, 25-year-old working at a startup, with dark eyes, a trace of stubble,...
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Tenderness
By Laurelin I was 22 when I had my abortion. The images that fill my head of that day remain White sheets Tools laid out...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS: Rainbow Fire: Equality of Marriage
By Hannah Seelman Rainbows everywhere. Yet, all that I know is our love. For so long it has been denied. Angry shadows of...
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Trans Feminine Humility
By Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Even though I was assigned male at birth and raised in a home with a strict emphasis on gender roles, I, as...
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Saying It Loudly: I Had an Abortion at Planned Parenthood
By Joanna Christi I’m saying this loudly. I’m saying this loudly because it needs to be said. When I was in college, I was raped....
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Finding My Voice: A Reflection On My Abortion(s)
By Jasmine Alvarez 1. careless/irresponsible/trash adjectives that some (most) might use to describe a woman who CHOSE abortion not once/not twice three times. Typical HOODRAT...
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A Last Resort
By Gabrielle Daniels It was a Saturday. I think that I walked all the way home from San Francisco General to Church and 26th. For...
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Waking Up to Rape Culture in Asheville
The first time I learned about rape culture was on the school bus. Soon after leaving the school parking lot, the boys in the row...
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Manic Pixie Dream Cervix
By Sarah Cook but she is like a glass woman one ingredient, transparent a hunter of too bad treasure * why can’t she...
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The Preacher’s Daughter
By Sharon Rothberg At my wedding in the summer of 1964, I was 22 years old. Marty and I had dated for three years, and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: DEAR SOCIETY, PLEASE CHANGE
By Jennifer Egbebike Dear Parents, When did it all begin? When did I start believing that in order to be an asset to society, I...
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A Midwife’s Story
By Chloë Lubell There’s nothing dramatic about my abortion story. I had been with my partner for five years already. It was the summer before...
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Another Time
By Clementine Burnley This is the life that will not be What I imagined for you and me I have gathered information Groped for...
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A Love Note to Women Who’ve Had Voluntary Abortions
I had an abortion when I was a sophomore in high school. I had another when I was a sophomore in college. Before then and...
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The Pope and His “Patriarchy Problem,” Again
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing this on the train traveling from Milan to Venice, Italy. Many people here are excited that Pope Francis arrives...
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A Mirror in the Sky: Camille A. Brown’s Black Girl: Linguistic Play
As I was watching Camille A. Brown and her dancers in Brown’s latest work, Black Girl: Linguistic Play during a run through on Sunday...
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Call for Submissions: “Our Abortions, Our Lives”
Our Abortions, Our Lives: A Forum In the face of repeated attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, stigmatize abortion, impede reproductive justice, punish mothers, disavow children,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Quiet Miracle of Undocumented Immigration
By Fernanda Cunha At my parents’ new house there’s a cat who is always by the big-limbed tree in the front yard. It’s more bones...
