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Learning from Twitter Trolls: A Feminist Survival Guide
By Guest Contributor on April 11, 2017
By Meggie Mapes Picture it: I was a budding social media feminist, learning the ropes tweet by tweet. By the end of the first day...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Legislating Islamophobia From Villaneuve-Loubet to Washington
By Guest Contributor on March 30, 2017
By Amy Oldfield Women of Villeneuve-Loubet, a coastal town just South of Nice, France, had a reason to celebrate on August 26, 2016 as...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, My Journey Within The Social Development Sector: Musings, Frustrations, Reflections
By Guest Contributor on March 27, 2017
By Arpita Das I find myself increasingly disillusioned with the development sector, even though it has been my professional home for nearly sixteen...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Feminism Throughout The Ages
By Guest Contributor on March 23, 2017
By Ella Gonzalez Today, “feminism” is a loaded word. It stands at the crossroads of being perceived as an incubator for change and progression for...
EMERGING FEMINISMS, The People’s Champ
By Guest Contributor on March 20, 2017
By Adam Szetela Ronda Rousey shattered the UFC’s conservative stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, now she is taking the fight to Donald Trump. ...
EMERGING FEMINISMS, Do You Recognize Me Now?
By Guest Contributor on March 13, 2017
By Joy De Guzman On my first days of pre-school a parent asked me with a smile “what are you?” At a time when...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART THREE
By Guest Contributor on March 9, 2017
By Lina Chhun In this post-inauguration period, we are living with what may seem to be a very keen tension—that tension between the dangers of...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART TWO
By Guest Contributor on March 6, 2017
By Lina Chhun A few months after returning from dissertation work abroad, I attended a talk with Professor Aisha Finch at UCLA. The talk expanded...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART ONE
By Guest Contributor on March 2, 2017
By Lina Chhun Today I sat in my car and I waited for the sun to set. I can’t remember the last time I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, American Girlhood and the Confidence Gap
By Guest Contributor on February 20, 2017
By Christiane Gannon My female students are discussing their relationship to criticism, gathered at the back of the room in two groups. On the left...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: From Pernicious Editing to Audacious Rescripting (Benediction)
By Tamura Lomax on February 17, 2017
In her Introduction to Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (2002), an edited collection of essays engaging the hyper-presence of...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: What’s Next: a Bibliography, a Journal and You
By Tamura Lomax on February 16, 2017
Throughout the #BlackSkinWhiteSin forum I was asked the question, “so sis, what’s next?” The truth is, this work intentionally leads to a variety of openings...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Sexual Autonomy Ain’t Schizophrenia: Deconstructing Bynum’s Ableist Rhetoric in “No More Sheets Pt. 2”
By Guest Contributor on February 16, 2017
By Jade Perry Last Monday a good friend sent Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets Part 2” via inbox with the caption, “She’s baaaaack.” I clicked...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Shielding Our Girls From Misogynoir…Even When It Comes From the Church
By Guest Contributor on February 16, 2017
By Kimberly Peeler-Ringer I was getting a feel for my own preaching voice right around the time Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets” came out. I...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: “You’re Jiggling, Baby. Go ‘head, baby.”: Fighting Temptations to Move in the Engineering of Worship
By Guest Contributor on February 15, 2017
By Alisha Lola Jones Ok, we don’t wear girdles no more, but have you heard of SPANX? Have you heard of something that keeps you...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Black Feminist Thoughts on No More Sheets and Black Sexual Politics
By Heidi R. Lewis on February 15, 2017
During my senior year of college, sometime between 2002 and 2003, a good friend of mine—let’s call her Nicole—alerted me to Juanita Bynum’s No More...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: In the Name of Redemptive Self-Love: Stop! The Holyrolling Fashion Police
By Guest Contributor on February 15, 2017
By Melanie C. Jones Since the European male’s predatory gaze upon African women on precolonial African soil, the Black female body in Western culture has...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: For Those Still Haunted by The Sheets (Why the Counter-Narrative Matters)
By Guest Contributor on February 14, 2017
By Candice Benbow I remember the first time I watched Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets” sermon. Family members had just come back from the Woman,...

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