LGBTQI
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Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Sexual Violence
By Jennifer Patterson Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement is a forthcoming anthology being published by Magnus Books in 2014....
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Caring Queer Feminist Communities
By Jay Keim At a workshop with the Northwest Network (Seattle, USA), I was asked why I became an anti violence advocate. I felt ambivalent...
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Meditations on Being Right
By Lyndsey Godwin This is a sermon that was given on February 12, 2013 at the weekly chapel service held at Vanderbilt Divinity School, an...
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Personal is Political: On Why My Girlfriend and I Got Hitched & No One Was Invited
Jenny Kurzweil writes about the same-sex marriage movement for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW, "But why do we have to call it marriage in the first place? The very...
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Toni Cade Bambara: ‘. . . an uptown Griot’
By Cheryl Clarke In March 2005, Cheryl Clarke was the featured keynote speaker at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center’s Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism...
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Personal is Political: To My BlackTransSistas: A letter of Healing, Reconciliation, and Love
Kristen Smith writes an open letter to Black transwomen for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW, "I am not your part-time ally, only serving when acts against you are so...
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Op-Ed: What We Lose When We Focus Our Discussion on Jared Leto Rather than Rayon: Queer Politics and the Forgotten Heroes of the AIDS Crisis
By Mairead Sullivan While Rayon’s death in the Dallas Buyers Club was not the stereotypical death of a tragic transgender character, it was a tragic...
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A Review of “Undoing Border Imperialism”
By Erin Durban-Albrecht On the morning of October 11, 2013, activists of all ages in my hometown of Tucson put their bodies on the line—chaining...
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Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (Book Review)
By David B. Green, Jr. I have learned through the process of story telling and sharing that we all come from various walks of life...
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Op-Ed: A Home of Our Own: Temporary Housing and LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
By Nicole S. Junior In 2012, twenty-one-year-old Romelle Johnson was transported by ambulance to a local Brooklyn, New York hospital.* While en route, an EMT...
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Afterword: Standing at the Lordean Shoreline
In the name of the known and unknown ancestors upon whose shoulders we stand… Today is the end of TFW’s global forum on Black Lesbian...
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Continuing the Celebration: Feminist Studies Celebrates Audre Lorde
Aishah Shahidah Simmons — my sister and comrade across miles and years, and the visionary behind the historic forum you’ve been reading for the...
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Three Degrees of Connection
By C.C. Carter It’s what happens when generation “the studied” meets generation “the studier”—connection. We, some two thousand plus miles a part from each other,...
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Mockeries of Separation (a poem)
. by e nina jay “we must not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which we so...
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Audre Lorde and Spelman College
By Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy Sheftall I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, co-edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and...
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The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College
By Jerry Wever The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College in Atlanta is such a special seminar. This year marks the third offering...
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POSTSCRIPT: a love note
By Michelle Parkerson “Don’t mythologize me.” Audre Lorde (from the documentary, “A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL”) Consider this a love note never sent, Audre, for that...
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Love Note for Audre Lorde
By Jennifer Abod Audre was the first black lesbian feminist that I saw in the flesh. I had discovered her several years before in a...
