Violence
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Domestic Violence Survivors Write to their Body Parts to Reclaim the Pieces that Make Them Whole and at Home
By Lexie Bean “Do not be afraid to put this book down. Do not be afraid to pick this book up. This book is not...
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“Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not)”: A Flawed Critique of Columbus Day that Omits Indigenous Peoples in Present Day and Virtually Ignores the Enslavement of African Americans
By Tria Andrews A misguided essay-comic titled “Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not)” was recently posted on by Matthew Inman on The...
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Feminist Leadership: Leading For the Least of Us
By Kelly Macías If you’ve been paying attention, the last three months have made for a fascinating study in leadership; or more specifically, the lack...
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Justice for Marissa! Set her Free! (Read and Sign)
By Zillah Eisenstein October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Marissa Alexander was imprisoned in 2010 for 20 years after trying to defend herself from a...
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Sites of Violence: Why Our Notions of “Sex Positive” Feminism Are in Need of an Overhaul
While skimming through news a few weeks ago, I noticed that one of the current hot topics on feminist threads was the Cliteracy project, an...
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What Ralph Ellison Can Teach Us about Trayvon Martin
By Dennis Tyler Jr. In light of the recent decision by the school board of education in Randolph County, North Carolina, to ban Ralph Ellison’s...
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Op-Ed: Law Enforcement Violence Against Black Women
Tasasha Henderson Many of us know and remember the names of Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, and Kimani Gray, all young, Black men who were murdered...
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Abused Goddesses, Orientalism and the Glamorization of Gender-Based Violence
By Sayantani DasGupta The Abused Goddesses of India. The advertisements, created by Mumbai-based ad firm Taproot India, have been making the rounds – not only...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: President Crow: Take A Stand Against Rape Culture at ASU
By Sun Devils Against Sexual Assault President Michael Crow, Last week, we learned Executive Vice President and Provost Betty Phillips will be leaving Arizona State...
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Stop and Frisk: Violence Subsidies and the Myth of Order
By Roberto E. Alejandro In a scene from 1952’s High Noon, Gary Cooper’s Marshal Kane enters the town parish in the hopes of recruiting deputies...
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For the Love of Freedom: Writing, Radical Praxis and the Transformative Power of a Slave’s Words
By Ernest L. Gibson, III When Frederick Douglass wrote “My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which I am writing...
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Fallen Angels & Failures to Love: Gendered Violence in Songs About Bad Girls
By Annita Lucchesi Every year a few songs like this come out (semi-recent examples include Lil Wayne’s “How to Love,” J.Cole’s “Daddy’s Little Girl,” and...
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An Open Letter to Our Sister, CeCe McDonald
By Brothers Writing to Live Dear CeCe, This letter to you, sister, is past due. We are late to the struggle. And for that we...
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Dear Facebook Friend: A Primer on Racism
By LaKisha Simmons In response to your racist memes and our ensuing discussion. You believe that race “doesn’t matter in today’s day,” that you treat all...
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Date Rape: The Aftermath
By Anonymous I should have known before reading Brittany Burton’s essay, “You Have No Idea,” that it would reopen what I thought I’d so carefully...
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You Have No Idea
By Brittany “Beebs” Burton Until you’ve been raped, you have no idea what it’s like. You don’t know what it’s like to walk into a...
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Yale’s Response to Campus Rape is Not Enough
By Sukjong Hong I long for the day when a woman can speak about her experience of rape with all the force of her convictions, as...
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Op-Ed: Not Okay, Uncle Rush
By Darrian Wesley Thomas Dear Uncle Rush, Pull up a chair. We need to handle some family business. So, I saw the “Harriet Tubman Sex...
