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3 Lessons from U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (A 3 Part Series Coming Soon!)
Series Introduction: I am dancing and screaming with joy even more often than usual because Natasha Trethewey is our next US Poet Laureate! For those...
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"Most Affectionately Ever Yours": Slavery, Literacy and Black Women's Friendships
By Tara Bynum and Alexis Pauline Gumbs From at least 1772 to 1779 Phillis Wheatley, the “first” published African American poet wrote letters to another...
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What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’
By Theresa Warburton and Joshua Cerretti We’re white feminists. We aren’t white just because our ancestors were mostly European. We are white because we regularly...
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Beyond the Access Narrative: Marriage Politics, Austerity, Surveillance
By Tamara K. Nopper Several years ago I was at a mall in Philadelphia buying a meal from KFC. Because I didn’t want my cole...
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Migrant Kidnappings Frequent Along US/Mexico Border
The kidnapping of migrants who travel through Mexico on their way to the United States has become a “systematic and generalized” practice by organized crime...
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Taliban Poetry Collection Sparks Controversy
Poetry of the Taliban, a soon-to-be-released collection of poetry written by Taliban fighters, faced a storm of criticism this past week. The book’s editors —...
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The Endless Baptism
The Endless Baptism For Palestine For the last few months, I’ve been working on a series of essays on Palestine. I’ve now written and erased...
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Reflections on the Palestinian Hunger Strike and Our Collective Liberation
By Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Hunger strikes have historically been used as a form of non-violent civil disobedience and protest. Liberation movements in the United States protesting...
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The Unbroken Cycle of Radical Black Feminist/Womanist Women In My Family
I often celebrate and lift up the names of two women–Audre Lorde and Toni Cade Bambara –who are not related to me by blood but...
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Meteors
to sleep all day in loving arms or call my mother and hear her say Bushra? I was thinking of you right now to...
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A Different Remembrance
I found, while thinking about the far-reaching world of the creative Black woman, that often the truest answer to a question that really matters can...
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One Tough Mother
In 1977, I won my elementary school’s spelling bee, sending me to the regional match where, after several rounds, I was defeated by the word...
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Still Mama's Baby–The Continued Relevance of the American Grammar Book: A Prologue
I have always been awful at football. And for that, I give thanks. The first thing I want to do is to thank my mother,...
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Women Filmmakers Forum: Pratibha Parmar
Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar has an exemplary track record for her passionate commitment to making films with integrity and illuminating untold stories with visual flair and...
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Elections Around the World
Elections are happening all over the world, with some countries demanding changes from their governments while dictators in other nations reassert their control and power....
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Gender Taxes: American Women Are $1.5 Million Poorer By Age 65
By Joseph de la Torre Dwyer Every single working day of the year, American women pay a 22.6 percent gender tax on their income. By...
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Race, Mad Men, and Nostalgia
By Claire Oberon Garcia Like three million other Americans, I eagerly looked forward to the return of Mad Men. I love the show. But as...
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Dreams Deferred, Humanity Denied: The War on Women of Color (Part 2)
Read Part 1 here The vicious attacks on women of color are not unique to the health care system. This has been evident within the...