Patriarchy
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Deconstructing the Arrest of Sandra Bland
By Erick A. Paulino By now, most people in the United States know who Sandra Bland is and the circumstances that led to her arrest...
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Memory and Violence: Old South Nostalgia in the Wake of the Emanuel AME Shooting
By Jamie Huff Since the recent killing of nine Black congregants at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME church on June 17, debates about the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Hillary Clinton for President? Why She’s Not the Woman We Need
By: Aviva DeKornfeld Hillary Clinton is a woman and as it turns out, this is big news. Back in 2012, both Clinton and Barak Obama...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter to My Ex, Nude Picture
By Kaitlin Harris Dear Gilbert, I wanted to say thank you. Thank you for keeping my private pictures (from two years ago, no less!)...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Nine Times She Felt Less Than Human
By Anonymous ...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: In the Hour of Consciousness: Three Poems by Kathryn Eichner
400 Lux Clouds forming cosmic rats—patchouli were the first and last words I wrote in my physics notebook...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Exploring Meghan Trainor’s “Feminist” Message
By Emily Wershba A “new” wave of feminism (and anti-feminism) in pop culture has resulted in a newfound respect for feminist pop songs and...
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“Race and gender are not the same!” is not a Good Response to the “Transracial” / Transgender Question OR We Can and Must Do Better
I remember Justine Black from elementary school. She was smart. She was brown, but not brown like me. I was black like most of the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Why Human Rights Don’t Work for Me
By Lydia Lopez Recently, I attended a panel called “Women’s Rights in the 21st Century: Fifteen Years After United Nations Security Council Resolution...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Everyday Athlete
By Mariah Conn Start workout. My shoe feels loose. Glance behind. This hill is too steep. Nailed it. Oh, the tunnel. Better take out...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Forum Submissions on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival DUE 6/1/15
PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS!! TODAY: JUNE 1, 2015 Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the College Feminisms Forum! Please continue to share...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Deeper Look: Exploring the Violent Homophobia of Jamaica
By Felicia Garcia One afternoon, I was driving to work and I had the reggae station playing on Pandora. Buju Banton’s “Boom Bye-Bye” came on....
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Personal Is Political: Trans Feminine Humility
While internalized misogyny tells me I need to be humble and quiet, internalized transmisogyny tells me I need to be even more humble and quiet—this...
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How Did This Happen? Capitalism’s Double Subordination of Women and Nature
By Julie Gorecki Waves of women most impacted by environmental destruction are spearheading viable solutions to the climate crisis by advocating that there can be...
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When Fear and Favor Rule: The World Bank’s Systemic Land Displacement
By Cristina Awadalla According to the UN’s Trade and Environment Review, food security, poverty, gender inequality, and climate change can all be collectively addressed with...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: My Message to Anti-Abortionists
By Anonymous Dear Picketer, Pulling into the abortion clinic you were there to greet me after my hour-and-a-half long drive across the state line....
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A Beginner’s Perspective on Being a Woman in Different Spaces of Environmental Activism
By Georgie Johnson Since September 2014, I have worked for Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), a small London-based NGO that works towards environmental justice and gender equality...
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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...
