Feminism
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Mother-Love: Reflections of an Asian American Feminist Daughter
By Vickie Nam The rift that steadily deepened between my mother and I emerged in the throes of adolescence, and mid-90s White feminism did little...
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Silence Does Not Equal Absence: Lessons from Arizona
By Wendy Cheng When I heard what writers at The Onion had tweeted about nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis during the Oscars, I felt it as a...
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A Love Note for Movement
By Purvi Shah The work of ending violence and enabling gender equity is hard. The victories are too rare, the celebrations too brief. And so...
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The Politics of Reading: A Love Note for Stephen Ray
By Shannon Craigo-Snell I was weeping in the parking lot. The required seminar in the Ivy League graduate program had just let out for the...
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Visual Art: "bang bang" by Theresa Anderson
________________________________________________________ Theresa Anderson is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist and a writer whose art blog was selected as a top five finalist by the Westword 2012 Denver...
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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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Visual Art: "Cupcake Feminism" by Lynn Gehl−Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe
Lynn Gehl−Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe, Ph.D. is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley. She has a section 15 Charter challenge regarding the continued sex discrimination...
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Race and Community Accountability
By Qui Dorian Alexander I came into feminism as a butch Latina lesbian at a women’s college. Today I stand as a brown queer trans...
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The UConn WGSS Public Statement
The Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Connecticut applauds Ms. Luby for creating an open dialogue about the relationship among the...
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Why is UConn's Mascot a Rape Meme?
By Soraya L. Chemaly Two days ago, Carolyn Luby, an undergraduate at University of Connecticut published a remarkable open letter to the school’s president, Susan Herbst, in The...
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Urgent: Press Release: An Open Letter to President Susan Herbst, the UConn Community, Barstool Sports, and others on Behalf of Carolyn Luby
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2013 In light of the recent vitriolic, anti-feminist, misogynist, and malevolent backlash directed at UConn senior Carolyn Luby in response...
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Feminists We Love: Stephanie Gilmore
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Darnell L. Moore Stephanie Gilmore is an antiracist queer feminist scholar-activist who engages activism through education and writing. She facilitates...
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I’m Complicated, Just like Feminisms: A Black and White Feminist Working It Out (Part I)
Dr. Connie Ruzich and I first met soon after I walked onto the Robert Morris University campus in 1999. I thought I’d become a Finance...
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Un-Raced in Transit : Colorblindness and the Stakes of Speaking Up
By Marlaina H. Martin For every one of the countless times that I have thought about race, I can name a handful in which I...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Beyond Duty
By Paul Seltzer On August 23, 2012, the George Washington University’s independent student newspaper, The GW Hatchet, reported that rising senior Tori Guy was transferring. ...
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Film: "Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights" by Nevline Nnaji
Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights is a feature-length documentary that focuses on black women’s marginalization between the Black Power and Feminist movements, as...
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Visual Art: "usda nba filet mignon" by Theresa Anderson
By Theresa Anderson Theresa Anderson is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist and a writer whose art blog was selected as a top five finalist by the Westword...
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Tilting At Windmills
By Rebecca Miriam The thing is: you can let it go. You can shut down your browser, or throw away that newspaper, or turn off your...