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EMERGING FEMINISMS, An Introduction to the “Collective Voice of the Voiceless” Forum on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival
By Mick Powell and Heather M. Turcotte, Associate Editors “The collective voice of the voiceless is still one of the most powerful tools of...
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Saying It Loudly: I Had an Abortion at Planned Parenthood
By Joanna Christi I’m saying this loudly. I’m saying this loudly because it needs to be said. When I was in college, I was raped....
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A Last Resort
By Gabrielle Daniels It was a Saturday. I think that I walked all the way home from San Francisco General to Church and 26th. For...
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The Preacher’s Daughter
By Sharon Rothberg At my wedding in the summer of 1964, I was 22 years old. Marty and I had dated for three years, and...
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Call for Submissions: “Our Abortions, Our Lives”
Our Abortions, Our Lives: A Forum In the face of repeated attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, stigmatize abortion, impede reproductive justice, punish mothers, disavow children,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Quiet Miracle of Undocumented Immigration
By Fernanda Cunha At my parents’ new house there’s a cat who is always by the big-limbed tree in the front yard. It’s more bones...
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The Women’s Mosque of America: Understanding Diversity and Empowerment
By Madihah Akhter One Friday afternoon, as I was settling down to listen to a sermon in my local mosque in Orange County, California, a woman...
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“And God is the Water”: Reflections on the EPA Spill, Power, and the U.S. Southwest
By Katherine Freeman I gaze with profound horror upon pictures of the San Juan and Animas rivers, flowing a sickly yellow and orange through Totah,...
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I feel chilly, so I grab my favorite green canvas jacket from the trunk and return to the warmth of my car in the parking...
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Deconstructing the Arrest of Sandra Bland
By Erick A. Paulino By now, most people in the United States know who Sandra Bland is and the circumstances that led to her arrest...
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Why Did Sandra Bland Die? (And Why We Need a White Anti-Racist Feminist Posse)
By Zillah Eisenstein By now Sandra Bland’s name has been in the news for several weeks. A 28-year old Black woman is stopped by a...
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Return from ZombieLand: Academia, Substance Abuse, and Accountability
By Olubukola Yetunde Ogundipe On April 18th 2015, I was hospitalized due to an acute mental breakdown. While this episode was the first of its...
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Memory and Violence: Old South Nostalgia in the Wake of the Emanuel AME Shooting
By Jamie Huff Since the recent killing of nine Black congregants at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME church on June 17, debates about the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Hillary Clinton for President? Why She’s Not the Woman We Need
By: Aviva DeKornfeld Hillary Clinton is a woman and as it turns out, this is big news. Back in 2012, both Clinton and Barak Obama...
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“Race and gender are not the same!” is not a Good Response to the “Transracial” / Transgender Question OR We Can and Must Do Better
I remember Justine Black from elementary school. She was smart. She was brown, but not brown like me. I was black like most of the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Forum Submissions on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival DUE 6/1/15
PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS!! TODAY: JUNE 1, 2015 Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the College Feminisms Forum! Please continue to share...
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Climate Change and Feminist Environmentalisms: Closing Remarks
By Cristina Awadalla, Piper Coutinho-Sledge, Alison Criscitiello, Julie Gorecki, and Sonalini Sapra Climate change impacts us all, from the itty-bitty crawler in your garden to...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Cultural Plagiarism
By Shantel Perry Cultural appropriation is a continuing epidemic in the United States (US). Yes I said it, Black Culture (although we are not...
