By vanessa rose I’m not the girl of your dreams so please stop calling me that I’m not your pin-up fantasy Why is that the...
By Asha Goldweber When I went in to Kaiser to have my cervix biopsied for the 13th time, I cried before the procedure started. I...
By Malia Nahinu A painful existence— Confusing messages, Spoken to us as children in anger From protective mothers, “DO NOT WALK ALONE AT NIGHT.” Dresses...
By Aisha Jitan Everyone should be a feminist. Tell me you are a believer of justice, true freedom, A believer in fundamental human rights....
By Bella Week There are about as many higher education institutions in this country as there are prisons, and all but Columbia and the University...
________________________________________________________________________________ Jordan Durham holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho where she was the 2015-16 Centrum Fellow. Her poems...
By William Ruhm I first encountered the term “identity politics” while organizing with the Black Lives Matter movement through a socialist group in Boston. When one white ally...
By Ibram X. Kendi In the prologue of my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, I...
This isn’t an open letter. It’s cautionary. Warning tape surrounds this statement. Enter at your own risk.
By Martina “Mick” Powell for KJ Morris and all the beautiful people we lost in Orlando, FL on June 12, 2016 & that...
By Lytasha Marie Blackwell The following piece was written while I was a junior in high school. This piece reflects my concerns, views, passion,...
By Zillah Eisenstein COUNT US IN!!! “We” are at the ready to play the WOMAN card. But what is an anti-racist feminist supposed to do?...
By Pascha Bueno-Hansen On Friday, March 4, 2016, a group of survivors, advocates, and activists occupied the entrance to the Peruvian national criminal court,...
By Zahara Hill My melanin was supposed to feel magical. But after centuries of being fooled into an identity created on false notions of undesirability,...
By Julie Winterich If you find this title ugly, you’re right. It’s jarring and upsetting. So is sexual violence. I’m a professor of sociology...
By Yehuda Sharim Scratch the surface of the living conditions in the United States, and you’ll find immigrants for whom deportation is not merely a threat or a...
By Taylor Bak I will write these poems until I prove you wrong, I will write these poems even if they’re a “waste...
By Keisha Blain Adelaide Casely Hayford was, as she once described herself, a “race woman through and through.” Like Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Una Marson, and...