Violence
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Finding My Voice: A Reflection On My Abortion(s)
By Jasmine Alvarez 1. careless/irresponsible/trash adjectives that some (most) might use to describe a woman who CHOSE abortion not once/not twice three times. Typical HOODRAT...
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#ShoutYourAbortion: I’ve Had Two Abortions and I Don’t Regret Either of Them
By Ashleigh Shackelford The first time I was pregnant, it was as a result of rape by my then boyfriend’s close friend. I was only...
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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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#Blacksexworkerslivesmatter: White-Washed ‘Anti-Slavery’ and the Appropriation of Black Suffering
By Robyn Maynard Claiming to be a modern-day anti-slavery ambassador is a highly profitable cause, one that is increasingly popular in Hollywood circles. Most recently, hundreds...
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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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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Country Within
By Sa Fa “Middle Passage” this is the middle. a place i prefer to call the middle rather than the end. even though,...
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# (or, Counted without Counting)
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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Prose Poem: “To All the Boys Who Didn’t”
By Kristin Sanders Thank you to the man in Las Vegas who ripped my tampon out and went down on me anyway...
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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State (Part I)
By Carolyn Tyjewski I’ve been an activist for decades, and always intentionally (and sometimes not) at the intersections of communities that are fighting similar battles. Whether...
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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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Free Marissa Now and Stand With Nan-Hui: A Conversation About Parallel Struggles
Alisa Bierria, a member of the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign and a member of INCITE! and Hyejin Shim, an organizer with the Stand with...
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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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On Nicknaming Predators
By Erin Corbett I have been asked by a number of people about naming drones. “Do drone operators name their drones?” “Do drone operators give their...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: In the Hour of Consciousness: Three Poems by Kathryn Eichner
400 Lux Clouds forming cosmic rats—patchouli were the first and last words I wrote in my physics notebook...
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For Mother Emanuel and In Solidarity with the Black Living and the Dead (REVISED)
Today I mourn with the families and community of the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Charleston, S.C. I mourn for the living and...
