Heteronormativity
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART TWO
By Lina Chhun A few months after returning from dissertation work abroad, I attended a talk with Professor Aisha Finch at UCLA. The talk expanded...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART ONE
By Lina Chhun Today I sat in my car and I waited for the sun to set. I can’t remember the last time I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, American Girlhood and the Confidence Gap
By Christiane Gannon My female students are discussing their relationship to criticism, gathered at the back of the room in two groups. On the left...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Black Feminist Thoughts on No More Sheets and Black Sexual Politics
During my senior year of college, sometime between 2002 and 2003, a good friend of mine—let’s call her Nicole—alerted me to Juanita Bynum’s No More...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Paying in Order to Perform Labor
By Kylie Nicole Gemmell During my last quarter as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to create, facilitate, and teach my own course. This...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Disbanding with White Patriarchy, Embracing Ourselves Despite Our Differences
By J.T. Roane The poison that is white patriarchy, has seduced all. It is like what Black feminist scholar Vivian Gordon called in a different...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Imposter to Entitlement
By Diksha Bijlani hey, my mother pulled off a solo raising two kids from the ground up her son a little too much like his...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, @catcallsofnyc
By Sophie Sandberg I’ve always liked dressing in a “feminine” way. I love sundresses, low cut shirts, short skirts. I like how these clothes look...
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Staying on the Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement on the Election
The Feminist Wire is fundamentally committed to intersectional truth-telling. We are uncompromising in this, and we will name the damage. We are not the mainstream...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When Being Sex Positive Isn’t Enough
By Chloe Sariego Since binaries are so early 2000s, I’m increasingly less interested in “pro” and “anti” porn debates. I’ve been a pro-porn feminist for...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Renewed Call to Action: Argentina Speaks Out against Femicide
By Fiona Gilligan It is Monday, 6 June 2016. A year since the inaugural march, organizers of the mass social-media-born movement #NiUnaMenos renewed their...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Capital-P-Productivity
By Laura Honsig “Capital-P-Productivity” is what a friend of mine called it once. For a long time I’ve been trying to put words to an...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Listen
By Sharon Lin I don’t need your misogyny Your happy-go-lucky sugar sweet kisses wrought against wet skin in a tattered skin-tight bathing suit...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, “Wrong or Right, Black or White?”: The Convergence of Race, Gender, and Justice in Constructions of Catwoman
By Jazlyn Andrews Have you ever felt so intrigued by a fictional character that you want to explore every facet of them until they...
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On the Definition of Strength, Sexism, and Dirty Words
By Dorie Holst A favorite quote of mine is (mis)attributed to national treasure Betty White, “Why do people say ‘grow some balls’ ? Balls are...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Rainy Days
By Sarena Tien “It’s her fault that she got rained on” is tantamount to saying, “It’s her fault that she got raped.” Why? Look...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS: On Thongs, Boys and Freedom
By Morgin Goldberg “What is that?” he asked me, pointing to my underwear. It was 11th grade and I was hooking up with my boyfriend...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Being
By Malia Nahinu A painful existence— Confusing messages, Spoken to us as children in anger From protective mothers, “DO NOT WALK ALONE AT NIGHT.” Dresses...
