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Women, Men, Horses, and the Wild, Wild West: An Interview with Deanne Stillman
I met Deanne Stillman in September 2013, and it seemed we had a great deal to discuss. We talked on a breezy, warm day at...
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For Lucia Mcbath, Sybrina Fulton and All Other Black Mothers Who’ve Considered Righteous Rage When Black Respectability Politics Ain’t Enough
In “What is this “black” in black popular culture? (Rethinking Race),” the late, great cultural theorist Stuart Hall, poignantly asks, “What sort of moment is...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Help Wanted: Sexual Harassment and the Restaurant Industry
By Jennifer McGreevey On my second day of waitressing at Athen’s Kitchen*, it rained. “It sucks cock,” said my boss, Baldios*, barely understandable due...
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Three Poems by Joy KMT
By Joy KMT Renisha McBride Even now you are being explained away your body laid on the coffee table and autopsied...
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Protecting What’s White: A New Look at Stand Your Ground Laws
By Sabrina Strings I ran into a normally nocturnal neighbor early one morning. She was buzzing about with an uncharacteristic alacrity. “Morning,” I muttered. “Good...
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10 Facts about the Mumia Abu-Jamal Case
By Johanna Fernandez 1. Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent. Mumia has been wrongfully imprisoned for 32 years. He spent the first 28.5 years of his imprisonment on Pennsylvania’s...
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How Anti-violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison Abolitionist
By Beth E. Richie Sometimes we learn our most profound political lessons in the contours of our everyday activism. This is certainly the case for me...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Until the Last One…
By Olivia N. Jones, Mount Holyoke College ‘14 September 14, 2013 was Marissa Alexander’s 33rd birthday. It is undoubtedly incredibly unfortunate that this black mother...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: My Intersectional Take on Marriage “Equality”
By T’Shana McClain In the wake of the gay-marriage debate sweeping the nation, I am aware that my stance on marriage equality is inextricably linked...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Bloody Cage
By David Rojas Tony picked up Carlos at approximately 11:30 pm on a chilly, snowy December night. Holding onto the hose that would help incinerate...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Girl(s) with the Pearl Earring(s)
By Renna Gottlieb I’m sitting in a small dining hall at Connecticut College, surrounded by about fifty of my student peers. My school is located...
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Katniss and Anastasia: Mismatched Heroines in a Shared Hell
By Lucy Berrington Why does America’s confused cultural gaze keep landing on two such mismatched literary heroines as Katniss Everdeen and Anastasia Steele? One is...
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An Open Letter to My Transgender Brothers on World AIDS Day 2013
By Kai M. Green Dear Kinfolk: Today is World Aids Day. Today, I remember those who we have lost. I remember the ancestors we have...
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Crip Politics? Just … No
By Mark Sherry I have spent most of the last 20 years working with two main groups of disabled people: brain injury survivors and people who’ve...
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Feminists We Love: Mia Mingus
One insidious effect of systematic oppressions–including ableism, sexism, white supremacy, queerphobia, classism, and colonialism–is that we become disconnected from one another and from ourselves. For...
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Illegible[1] Black Death: Denied Media, Mourning, and Mobilization
**** Breaking News Los Angeles International Airport: Gunman opens fire at Airport, killing 1 and injuring 6 more Washington Navy Yard: Gunman opens fire, killing...
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Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In
By bell hooks Editors’ Note: Though some of the fanfare surrounding Sheryl Sandberg (of Facebook and Lean In fame) has died down, Sandberg is back...
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A Letter to Marissa Alexander
Dear Marissa, It was a cold and dark Christmas Eve—sometime in the mid 80’s. My mom, my three sisters, and I lived in a small,...
