Sexuality
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Ode to June Jordan’s ‘A Poem about My Rights’
Inspired by the work of June Jordan we have both offered artistic, sonic, and poetic meditations on June Jordan’s, A Poem about My Rights.
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“These words/ they are stones in the water”: Introduction to The Feminist Wire Forum on June Jordan
Jordan’s insistence on the arts as a source of power was not confined to the limits of the page. She was a fiercely committed...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, (F)Act of Blackness: The Politics of Mixed Race Identity
By Jazlyn Andrews “That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Repression and Inequality in the California State University Health Clinic
By Chris Arreola Last year, I visited the San Francisco State University (SF State) Student Health Services center to receive testing for sexually transmitted...
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An Open Letter to Planned Parenthood Leadership
By Zillah Eisenstein Dear Cecile Richards, You are amazing, along with the huge Planned Parenthood apparatus that delivers health care and reproductive freedom to millions...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Dear Communities: In Lieu of a Conclusion to the “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival
Dear Communities: We are grateful for your engagement with this Forum over these past two and half weeks—reading, comments, and sharing with others. Your interest...
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#shoutyourabortion
By Britta Child ‘Tis true, I had been careless for far longer than my allotted grace period when I found out I was pregnant. Years of...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, for the professor who hurt me & got away with it
By Martina “Mick” Powell *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* i will let you have this...
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The Things I Knew
By MaryAnn Kozlowski I always knew my body was a battleground. I’d been fighting with it for years – exercising until I could barely stand...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Taking What’s Mine
By Alex-Quan Pham * “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* My childhood was spent speaking tiếng...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, An Introduction to the “Collective Voice of the Voiceless” Forum on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival
By Mick Powell and Heather M. Turcotte, Associate Editors “The collective voice of the voiceless is still one of the most powerful tools of...
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Saying It Loudly: I Had an Abortion at Planned Parenthood
By Joanna Christi I’m saying this loudly. I’m saying this loudly because it needs to be said. When I was in college, I was raped....
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Finding My Voice: A Reflection On My Abortion(s)
By Jasmine Alvarez 1. careless/irresponsible/trash adjectives that some (most) might use to describe a woman who CHOSE abortion not once/not twice three times. Typical HOODRAT...
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A Last Resort
By Gabrielle Daniels It was a Saturday. I think that I walked all the way home from San Francisco General to Church and 26th. For...
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Manic Pixie Dream Cervix
By Sarah Cook but she is like a glass woman one ingredient, transparent a hunter of too bad treasure * why can’t she...
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The Preacher’s Daughter
By Sharon Rothberg At my wedding in the summer of 1964, I was 22 years old. Marty and I had dated for three years, and...
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Call for Submissions: “Our Abortions, Our Lives”
Our Abortions, Our Lives: A Forum In the face of repeated attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, stigmatize abortion, impede reproductive justice, punish mothers, disavow children,...
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Poem: “A Girl’s Guide” by Amy Gleeson
By Amy Gleeson sit and be still sit and be still and cross your legs sit and be still and cross your legs and...
