Feminism
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Millennial Feminists, Stand Up!
By Ashley Yenick Many college-aged women have a skewed view of feminism and how it might apply to them. Millennial feminism was brought to my...
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Op-Ed: Where Femen Has Gone Wrong
By Mohadesa Najumi Femen is a feminist protest group founded in 2008, based in Ukraine. They received international recognition due to their direct and somewhat extreme methods of action....
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Feminism & Me: Name Change, for Love Actually
By Nilofar Ansher Does choosing to take on your husband’s name play into the patriarchal injunctions against women’s selfhood? What follows are questions re: notions of...
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Feminists We Love: Leigh Ann van der Merwe
Leigh Ann van der Merwe was born in 1982 in Ugie, Eastern Cape of South Africa. Growing up as a gender questioning person, she struggled...
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The Erased Women of the Wall: Settler Feminism and the Moroccan Quarter
By Jimmy Johnson Tel Aviv University Professor Orly Lubin asks about Israeli feminism, “Should feminists struggle for the implementation of equal rights in the army...
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Feminists We Love: Joan Morgan (Video)
Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist, author and a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The...
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Deadline Approaching: Call for Submissions for TFW forum on "Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminisms"
In 1979, Black socialist feminist lesbian writer, scholar, and organizer Barbara Smith stood in front of the National Association of Women’s Studies and said the...
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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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Willy Wilkinson and Kylar Broadus in Conversation: Measuring ourselves by our own yardstick
We met each other over a decade ago through our work on transgender issues around the country. Though we rarely get to see each other...