sexual violence
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Waking Up to Rape Culture in Asheville
The first time I learned about rape culture was on the school bus. Soon after leaving the school parking lot, the boys in the row...
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#Blacksexworkerslivesmatter: White-Washed ‘Anti-Slavery’ and the Appropriation of Black Suffering
By Robyn Maynard Claiming to be a modern-day anti-slavery ambassador is a highly profitable cause, one that is increasingly popular in Hollywood circles. Most recently, hundreds...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Country Within
By Sa Fa “Middle Passage” this is the middle. a place i prefer to call the middle rather than the end. even though,...
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Two Poems by Vicki Vargas
By Vicki Vargas Bottomless Mimosa A stranger’s dog threshes against its chain until the weeping of metal-links distracts our waiter. I watch your...
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Prose Poem: “To All the Boys Who Didn’t”
By Kristin Sanders Thank you to the man in Las Vegas who ripped my tampon out and went down on me anyway...
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Straight Outta Rape Culture
When N.W.A.’s mega-hyped biopic Straight Outta Compton opens this Friday, the brutalized bodies of black women will be lost in the predictable stampede of media accolades. ...
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Return from ZombieLand: Academia, Substance Abuse, and Accountability
By Olubukola Yetunde Ogundipe On April 18th 2015, I was hospitalized due to an acute mental breakdown. While this episode was the first of its...
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Free Marissa Now and Stand With Nan-Hui: A Conversation About Parallel Struggles
Alisa Bierria, a member of the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign and a member of INCITE! and Hyejin Shim, an organizer with the Stand with...
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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: 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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Police Criminals and the Brutalization of Black Girls
In Alice Walker’s short story “The Flowers,” a little girl happens upon the decomposing body of a lynching victim while she is out picking flowers. ...
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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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Campus Rape Survivors Need Policy Change, Not Trigger Warnings
By Maggie Hardy I write as a rape survivor, and like any victim, I can assure you that triggers are out there. If higher education...
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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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Highway of Tears: A Review
I first viewed the stunning documentary Highway of Tears, directed by Matt Smiley and produced by Smiley and Carly Pope, during a week in which...
