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What My Mother Taught Me: Loving Self
By Kimberly George Now in the third decade of my life, I am realizing all the things my mother was right about. She was right...
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Anti-Imperial Feminist Musings in Morocco
By Zillah Eisenstein I traveled to Fez and Casablanca, Morocco, earlier this month to dialogue with Islamic Feminists there and to see, feel, and stretch...
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“I Am Because We Are: Ferguson, Family & Freedom” #FergusonFridays
“Where one is oppressed, none are free.” So said several of the signs I saw in Ferguson, Missouri, nearly 3-weeks ago today. My trip to...
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Op-Ed: Perspectives We Don’t Need and Those We Do
By Mirabel Ash In popular discourse, we have come to recognize individuals from dominant groups who advocate for civil rights and liberties on behalf of...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Step One: Show Skin, Step Two: Praise Talent: A Look at Scarlett Johansson and the Film Industry
By Megan Felder I’ve always loved movies. A lot. Romantic comedy, sci-fi, superhero action – you name it, I will watch it. Perhaps that’s why...
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Rotten to the Core: The NFL and Domestic Violence
By David J. Leonard and Monica J. Casper The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found that fully a third of women in the...
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Lessons From Ferguson
By Tamura Lomax, Stephanie Troutman, and Heather Laine Talley One week ago, we traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, a place that has drawn the attention of...
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Let Our Ears Tingle with Truth
By Keri Day Victor Hugo powerfully stated, “The guilty one is not he who commits the sin in the dark, but he who causes the...
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“When are we going to wake up?” Anti-Blackness, Police Power, and Profit
By Beryl Satter “…a black woman, Mrs. Jones, wrote to Mayor Daley because her son was beaten to death by several white cops…over a traffic...
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The Price of Blackness: From Ferguson to Bed-Stuy
The unsettling image of the lifeless body of 18-year old Mike Brown, the unarmed teen shot six times by Officer Darren Wilson, which laid prostrate before...
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The Violence, Anti-Blackness, and Black Life Matters Forum: An Introduction
The recent shooting and murder of 18-year old Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, galvanized a local movement for justice on behalf...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Bringing “All” to the Tent of Communal Healing
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes Inspired by the story of a Black enslaved woman, Margaret Garner, Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved explores the narrative of Sethe,...
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The Color of Infant Mortality
“A pickup truck and a backhoe show up on the days, usually Tuesdays and Thursdays with good weather, when babies are buried at the county...
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TFW and Black Lives Matter
This past weekend members of the Editorial Collective journeyed to Ferguson, MO with “Black Lives Matter Ride (BLMR),” a national advocacy effort organized in the spirit of the...
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Op-Ed: Race, American Ideology, and Militarized Police
By Carolyn Davis Last year, I sat in front of my television in Brookline, a Boston suburb, and watched on live TV as police officers...
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Poems for Ferguson: Vanessa Huang and Aya de Leon
Two poets consider Michael Brown, Ferguson, MO, and the crucial ways in which Black Life Matters. How Do I Love Thee? A love...
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She’s In: Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperial Feminists Against War
By Zillah Eisenstein Hillary Rodham Clinton (un)officially entered the 2016 presidential race in her interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine. Much has been...
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Op-Ed: Meme what you say, say what you meme: What kind of Asian woman am I? A good one gone bad
By J. Mijin Cha As I was sitting through the second excruciating hour of my first Tinder date, I couldn’t help thinking: How did I...
