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A Feminist Education
By Emily Turner This past year, I’ve been working in a low-performing school in the South Bronx as an academic coach and mentor to a...
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Proximity and the Shifting Contours of Belonging
By Bo Luengsuraswat One decade is a long time. Ten years. One-zero. It’s the beginning of the next digit. A transition. One decade is a...
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Are All the Women Still White? Kermit Gosnell, “Back Alley” Abortions, and the Politics of Motherhood
By j.n. salters Last week, Kermit Gosnell—the African-American “late-term abortionist” who delivered live babies and then stuck scissors in the backs of their necks and...
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Op-Ed: Are Black People More Homophobic Than White People?
By Sidney Fussell Simply put, no. Black people are not “more” homophobic than white people. That’s a myth. But here I want to unpack what...
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Assata the Unflinching
by Gregory L. Caldwell and Omar Ricks Dear President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, At the risk of running afoul of the PATRIOT...
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Our Sister, Assata Shakur: Life, Struggle, Justice, and Love
By Lisa Brock and Beth E. Richie Feminist women of color activists and anyone who considers themselves our allies in the struggle for justice need...
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Feminists We Love: Assata Shakur (Love Note)
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “No one is going to give you the education you need...
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Hands Off Assata!
By Angela Y. Davis I was one of those seasoned activists who were utterly taken by surprise when Assata Shakur was recently placed on the...
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An Introduction to TFW's Forum on Assata Shakur: America's Grammar Book on Black Women and Terrorism
Assata Shakur has been given many names over the past four decades. Her political allies in the 1970s struggle for black liberation knew her as...
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“Somebody’s Children”: A Conversation with Laura Briggs
By Kelly Sharron and Abraham Weil Laura Briggs is the chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. We...
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Charles Ramsey, Viral Video, and American Self-Image
Sarah Mantilla Griffin Charles Ramsey, the hero who recently rescued Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight from a decade of captivity, has become the...
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Dar Luz: Shedding Light on Birth and Reproductive Health for Latinas
By Ynanna Djehuty Latinas in the United States are facing many of the same concerns regarding birthing and reproductive health care as our African-American sisters....
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Are Men to Be Trusted? Thoughts on Sexual Assault and the Chain of Command
By Bill Patrick This week brought the startling news of the arrest of Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, the officer in charge of the Air Force’s...
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Confession
By Nancy Kricorian Back when I earned my MFA in Poetry at Columbia, the majority of the students were women, and nearly all of our...
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Op Ed: An Open Letter to the Mainstream LGBT Movement
“There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives.” – Audre Lorde Dear Mainstream LGBT Movement,...
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Despite Apologies from Racist Frat, UC Irvine Black Students Stick to Demands
You might already know that a series of racist behaviors toward Black people recently brought national attention to University of California, Irvine’s (UCI) campus. A...
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It's Open Girl-Meat Season
By Jawahara Saidullah “Kya maal hai.” What good stuff. “Bilkul sahi cheez yaar.” Absolutely, great stuff, man. Maal means, stuff, thing, or merchandise. So does...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Capitalism: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
By Ariane Beckman A few months ago, The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper published at my school, Colorado College, published an article entitled “Why I...