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Celebrating Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 and died on July 17, 1959. She squeezed a lot of living–and a whole lot of music–into...
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“See Something, Say Something”: The Case of Trayvon Martin
By: Edgar Rivera Colón, PhD The recent vigilante murder of young Trayvon Martin affords, albeit tragically, an important moment for taking stock in this country...
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Rejecting the Rhetoric of the “Second Shift” and Insisting on Equity
By Sara Hosey At a recent meeting of a feminist group of which I am a member, a colleague referred to me as an example...
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We Be: Black Feminism and Embodiment (Part 3 of Can Black Feminism Be Quantified)
(This is the third installment of a four part series read part one and part two here.) Series Intro: “Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth...
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Dear Trayvon…You Will Not be Forgotten
By: Lauren Wells, PhD Dear Trayvon, Most numbing of all is that there is nothing strange about what happened to you. Our boys and men...
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Black Feminism: A Statistic? (Can Black Feminism Be (Quantified)? Part 2)
(This is part 2 of a four part series. Read part one here) Series Intro “Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth of countless generations of...
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Personhood For Women: Is this Personal Enough?
By Soraya Chemaly Melissa McEwan recently started a Personhood for Women petition suggesting that “a person identifying as a woman and/or having a uterus shall retain all of the full,...
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The Occupation Stole My Words, June Jordan Helped me to Relocate Them
Dedicated to June Jordan (who still lives among us) My friends had expected retellings of my journey when I arrived back from Israel and the...
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Introducing: Hakima Abbas
Hakima Abbas is a political scientist, policy analyst and activist. She has been active in struggles for social justice on issues of self-determination, race, class,...
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Introducing: Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an an award-winning African-American feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer, and activist based in Philadelphia, PA....
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Introducing: Mariko Nagai
Mariko Nagai is a graduate of New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, where she was the Remarque Fellow in Poetry. Her stories, poems, and translations...
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Introducing: Shubhra Sharma
Shubhra Sharma joined the Connecticut College faculty in 2010 as the Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. At Connecticut College, Shubhra teaches courses on transnational women’s movements...
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Introducing: Kevin Allred
Kevin Allred has a Bachelor’s degree from Utah State University and a Master’s degree from UMass Boston, both in American Studies. He has taught extensively in Women’s...
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Introducing: Bushra Rehman
Bushra Rehman is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer who was born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens. She co-edited the anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color...
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Love Notes: From Darnell to Aimee
Dearest Aimee, So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain’t no more...
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Love Notes: From Aimee to Darnell
Dear Darnell, I always find myself in love or falling there. My lovers are many, most of them unknown – yet to be revealed –...
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Introducing: Omar Ricks
Omar Ricks is an educator, writer, speaker, performance artist, and activist. He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in New Media from University of California,...
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Introducing: Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro
Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro is a graduate student at Arizona State University studying Social Justice & Human Rights. Her interests include mental health rights, global health movements, immigration and the construction...