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Every 28 Hours: An Ode to Renisha McBride (A Sermon)
By Nyle Fort The following is a sermon delivered on January 19, 2014 at the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens (Somerset, NJ). The preaching...
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Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Sexual Violence
By Jennifer Patterson Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement is a forthcoming anthology being published by Magnus Books in 2014....
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Unfinished Story About Violence
By Emma Redden 30.25° N, 97.75° W I am in Austin, Texas, two thousand miles from home asking strangers on the sidewalk to talk about...
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The Gentle Critique in Activist Spaces: A Newby’s First Year Journey on Social Media
By Kimbo Grama Can the online become the lifeline? We’re told, it’s not possible; we’re told that that people we meet in online forums are...
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Caring Queer Feminist Communities
By Jay Keim At a workshop with the Northwest Network (Seattle, USA), I was asked why I became an anti violence advocate. I felt ambivalent...
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Meditations on Being Right
By Lyndsey Godwin This is a sermon that was given on February 12, 2013 at the weekly chapel service held at Vanderbilt Divinity School, an...
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From Feminist Critique to Social Transformation: Lessons from Social Forum
By Rose M. Brewer A little over seven years ago, January 20-25, 2007, I was in Nairobi, Kenya at the World Social Forum. For those...
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Beyond Critique: An Introduction
Susannah Bartlow, Stephanie Gilmore, and Duchess Harris We envision this forum as a way to map that terrain beyond critique in the means and moment...
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Treva B. Lindsey: The Future and the Now
Dr. Treva B. Lindsey is very much the future – of black popular cultural studies, feminist scholarship, social media activism, and so much more. Someone...
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Glenn McConnell and the College of Charleston: Hidden Histories and the Confederate Imagery
By Jamie Huff South Carolina’s history as a former Confederate state engenders both resistance and refractory nostalgia. The recent decision to appoint Glenn McConnell as...
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Shitty Justice: Environmental Injustice in India —Part 2
I begin again with questions (I hope you remember this is still an “interrogative text” where there are no answers as in disclosures. Therefore closure...
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The Colbert Report and White Privilege: Satire I don’t believe in
By Michelle Medina I am a fan of The Daily Show. I am a fan of Jon Stewart and his cultural resistance to the status...
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In Solidarity with Mireille Miller-Young: Porn Studies, Context, and Speech
By Heather Berg Various scholars, journalists, and shock jocks have shared their perspectives on the March 4th encounter between UCSB Professor Mireille Miller-Young and the...
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Toward a Feminist Politics of De-Criminalization and Abolition: Why We Support Dr. Mireille Miller-Young
By Tamara L. Spira and Heather M. Turcotte We contest the criminalization of UC Santa Barbara feminist studies professor, Dr. Mireille Miller-Young. As feminists dedicated...
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Why I Am In Solidarity with Mireille Miller-Young
According to that radical feminist organization, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, domestic terrorism is intended “to intimidate or coerce a civilian population.” Okay, so I...
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Challenging the “Hard Right” Playbook: In solidarity with Dr. Mireille Miller-Young
The “hard right” playbook on college campuses is all too clear: create a violent spectacle prompting anger and outrage; feign victimhood lamenting the toxic environment...
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Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (Book Review)
By David B. Green, Jr. I have learned through the process of story telling and sharing that we all come from various walks of life...
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Nicki Minaj and Pretty Taking All Fades: Performing the Erotics of Feminist Solidarity
By Jillian Hernandez and Anya M. Wallace This essay aims to consider an erotics of feminist solidarity, not a solidarity that only decries the...
