Poetry
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a spell to save your life
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: eat salt not that ocean drowning snack to stop thinking about dying unintentional salt
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Are we ready to be well?
Cara Page: She asks us to be well/ to love ourselves and one another/ So that we are all safe and loved.
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Personal is Political: TCB Is What She Did and Was Who She Was
It was at the National Conference of African American writers held on the campus of Howard University in 1974 that she read her short story...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Silent No More
By Katie Wayhart SILENT NO MORE Spent more time with mommy than the other girls at school. Tall, blonde, “mature for her age”...
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Music Feature: Las Krudas Cubensi – “Mi Cuerpo es Mio” [VIDEO]
Las Krudas Cubensi are Cuban Hip Hop MCs, independent musicians, poets, and theater performers representing womyn, immigrants, queer people and people of color through action as...
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Poem Suite: Shards
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Coffee
By Shelby Simonsen My boyfriend never liked coffee. The rich, bitter, earthy flavor didn’t jive with his tongue....
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Poem Suite: Monsters
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Poem Suite: Becoming
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Two Poems by Tsitsi Jaji
By Tsitsi Jaji Pause. (For All the Madibas)* There is a breath before the pendulum rends its center, A breath before what leapt...
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Feminists We Love: Toshi Reagon [VIDEO]
In today’s Feminists We Love feature, writer, performer and arts activist Toshi Reagon talks with TFW Associate Editor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about feminist lineages, the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Three Poems by Samiya Javed
By Samiya Javed “You’re a King and I’m a Lion-heart” * I’d rather you curse your stars than curse my mother’s overburdened...
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What More Can I Say? (A prose-poem on antiblackness)
By C. Riley Snorton “…he grammar of their suffering–was indeed an ethical grammar. Perhaps it is the only ethical grammar…for it draws our attention not...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: To the Woman Who’s Made to Feel Like She’s Difficult to Love
By Mohadesa Najumi Dear Woman Who’s Made to Feel Like She’s Difficult to Love, You beautiful, soft delicate thing. You intricate thing. Why do...
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Poems for Ferguson: Vanessa Huang and Aya de Leon
Two poets consider Michael Brown, Ferguson, MO, and the crucial ways in which Black Life Matters. How Do I Love Thee? A love...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Just in Case
By Megan Koopman When you become a woman and your breasts start to show in a way that makes vice principals shake and neighborhood...
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Elementary Feminisms: Two Poems by Lorean Galarza
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Dominos Fall Quickly
By Emily Barasch The dominos fall quickly in the way that I choose And I have to act...
