Feminism
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The Women’s Mosque of America: Understanding Diversity and Empowerment
By Madihah Akhter One Friday afternoon, as I was settling down to listen to a sermon in my local mosque in Orange County, California, a woman...
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Poem: “A Girl’s Guide” by Amy Gleeson
By Amy Gleeson sit and be still sit and be still and cross your legs sit and be still and cross your legs and...
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Two Poems by Emelia Reuterfors
Brided 1) I wonder where my bride is . pigeonwinging and wired to the banister a split-end....
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Country Within
By Sa Fa “Middle Passage” this is the middle. a place i prefer to call the middle rather than the end. even though,...
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Collective Dreaming: An Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Almah LaVon
By Tala Khanmalek If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury,...
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Why Did Sandra Bland Die? (And Why We Need a White Anti-Racist Feminist Posse)
By Zillah Eisenstein By now Sandra Bland’s name has been in the news for several weeks. A 28-year old Black woman is stopped by a...
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Act Out features TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis
Heidi R. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College and Associate Editor for TFW, was recently interviewed by Eleanor Goldfield on...
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Free Marissa Now and Stand With Nan-Hui: A Conversation About Parallel Struggles
Alisa Bierria, a member of the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign and a member of INCITE! and Hyejin Shim, an organizer with the Stand with...
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Memory and Violence: Old South Nostalgia in the Wake of the Emanuel AME Shooting
By Jamie Huff Since the recent killing of nine Black congregants at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME church on June 17, debates about the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Hillary Clinton for President? Why She’s Not the Woman We Need
By: Aviva DeKornfeld Hillary Clinton is a woman and as it turns out, this is big news. Back in 2012, both Clinton and Barak Obama...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter to My Ex, Nude Picture
By Kaitlin Harris Dear Gilbert, I wanted to say thank you. Thank you for keeping my private pictures (from two years ago, no less!)...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Nine Times She Felt Less Than Human
By Anonymous ...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: In the Hour of Consciousness: Three Poems by Kathryn Eichner
400 Lux Clouds forming cosmic rats—patchouli were the first and last words I wrote in my physics notebook...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Exploring Meghan Trainor’s “Feminist” Message
By Emily Wershba A “new” wave of feminism (and anti-feminism) in pop culture has resulted in a newfound respect for feminist pop songs and...
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Op-Ed: Broaden Sexual Assault Education and Legislation to Include All Students, in College and Not
By Maria Hengeveld Since its opening in 1895, Low Memorial Library has become one of Columbia University’s most admired architectural sites. Its magnificent façade...
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“Race and gender are not the same!” is not a Good Response to the “Transracial” / Transgender Question OR We Can and Must Do Better
I remember Justine Black from elementary school. She was smart. She was brown, but not brown like me. I was black like most of the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Becoming Whole
By Alisha Hiebert She tells me to rock my hips. Back and forth, side to side. I rock my hips – thinking of their...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Why Human Rights Don’t Work for Me
By Lydia Lopez Recently, I attended a panel called “Women’s Rights in the 21st Century: Fifteen Years After United Nations Security Council Resolution...
