intersectionality
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Cisgender FemmeNist reflections on Trans* Justice: Moving from Adoration to Action
By Kari Lerum In my Sophomore year of college a straight-identified masculine-presenting cisgender heterosexual guy-friend surprised me by saying: “I want to be you...
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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis & Aishah Shahidah Simmons to Visit Berlin
Heidi R. Lewis, TFW Associate Editor and Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College, will teach her course entitled Hidden Spaces, Hidden...
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Beyond Saying Her Name
#SayHerName: Toward a Gender Inclusive Analysis of State Violence report’s release is timed to support mobilization for a National Day of Action on Black Women...
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Towards An Abolitionist Feminism
By Zillah Eisenstein As an anti-racist white feminist, I wonder if it is enough to be an “ally” in this present and “newest” moment of...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: POETRY BY WAFA SIMPORE
~~~~~~~~~ Step by step is an understatement of the Complexity Confusion Exhaustion That comes along with this work, Deconstruction Reconstruction so that many of us...
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Marco Rubio’s Flat Earth Minstrelsy
Ever since misbegotten Republican retread Alan Keyes burst onto the scene as the anti-Obama in 2008 it seems as if every presidential race demands at...
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Vegan Praxis, Black Lives Matter, and Water Rationing: A Conversation with Dr. A. Breeze Harper
I’d definitely call Dr. A. Breeze Harper one of the top intersectional vegan theorists today. And that’s not just hype—she most famously did this with...
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Climate Change and Feminist Environmentalisms Forum: An Introduction
By Cristina Awadalla I came to an important realization one night. I had long been learning about climate change, the anthropogenic kind that so many...
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An Open Letter to Trans Communities and our Co-Conspirators
In the wake of this year’s Trans100 event, we write this letter with grave concern for the current state of the trans movement,...
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In This City, You’re Not Alone: Interview with Rose Pierre-Louis
By Maria E. Hengeveld When Bill de Blasio took office as Mayor of New York City in January 2014, he chose Rose Pierre-Louis to head...
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REVIEW: All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color
At the Boundaries of Belief Review of All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, ed. Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer Review...
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Victimwashing: Guns, Violence, and the Politics of Whose Lives Matter
By Julie Moreau In February, the New York Times published an article on legislative initiatives to arm college students in an alleged attempt to reduce...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: And We Sat: Violence against the Bodies of Diversity and Transparency (DAT) Student Movement at Syracuse University
By Farrell Greenwald Brenner The ultimate connection cannot be the enemy. The ultimate connection must be the need that we find between us. It is...
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Policing Our Girls, Taming ‘Topsy’
“Let them haul the little monster out of school and into jail”. These were the words of a commenter on CNN.com’s site responding to...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Divergence
By Brianna Suslovic You took me to my first protest when I was in the first grade, Mom, a peaceful affair outside the federal...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Can the Side Chick Speak?: Side Chicks Re(Thot)
By Samantha Crook Now that the “year of the side chick” has come to a close, let’s resolve to have a more “thotful” side chick...
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Global Blackness
The following remarks were read at the Black Life Matters conference in Tucson, Arizona, on January 15, 2015. Good morning, everyone. I’m sorry I couldn’t...
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White People for Black Lives
By Zillah Eisenstein Revolutionary imagination is the most dangerous and therefore meaningful thing any of us have to offer. So I am writing in support...
