White Privilege
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Organizing Political Rage
By Mina Ezikpe On 20 September 2016, the day after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, I, with a few others, traveled...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Paying in Order to Perform Labor
By Kylie Nicole Gemmell During my last quarter as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to create, facilitate, and teach my own course. This...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Teaching While Black: The Punishments of Teaching “Diversity” in the Face of Trenchant Ignorance, Racism, and Entitlement
By Stephanie Batiste Race, gender, and sexuality are core concepts in my teaching with regard to the authors, materials, and concepts I introduce. I teach...
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An Open Letter to University Presidents, Provosts, and Governing Boards
By Monica J. Casper and Adela C. Licona In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. To Toni Morrison’s prescient admonition we,...
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Staying on the Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement on the Election
The Feminist Wire is fundamentally committed to intersectional truth-telling. We are uncompromising in this, and we will name the damage. We are not the mainstream...
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Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: “It Hurts”
By Judy Rohrer In the beginning of September I published a short article on a Hawai’i news site analyzing what I thought to be obvious...
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The EverywhereNess of White Supremacy; from Glacier to Standing Rock, to Tulsa, to Charlotte, to…
By Zillah Eisenstein I have just returned from hiking in Glacier National Park. It is a strange place to have been—during this hate-filled racist/misogynist Presidential...
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On Grief as Pedagogy
By Simone Kolysh TRIGGER WARNING: Graphic Violence Against Women. I don’t usually cry when I teach. If I do, it is because I am really...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, “Wrong or Right, Black or White?”: The Convergence of Race, Gender, and Justice in Constructions of Catwoman
By Jazlyn Andrews Have you ever felt so intrigued by a fictional character that you want to explore every facet of them until they...
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My Education in Racism
By PK Read I was eight the first time I took conscious note of a racial epithet. The year was 1970, the speaker was a...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When You’re Not Physically Masculine: Colorado College’s Body Privilege
By Jade Pearl Frost When I first stepped foot onto Colorado College’s campus as a freshman, I was amazed by the beautiful landscape, the friendly...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Ideological Abolition: Divesting Ideas (Not Just Money) From the Prison
By Bella Week There are about as many higher education institutions in this country as there are prisons, and all but Columbia and the University...
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The “Identity Politics” We’re Not Talking About
By William Ruhm I first encountered the term “identity politics” while organizing with the Black Lives Matter movement through a socialist group in Boston. When one white ally...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, On the Gender Racism of Black Men towards Black Women
By Ibram X. Kendi In the prologue of my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, I...
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Rethinking Forgiveness in the Face of Unceasing Black Trauma
I am the daughter of a black Baptist preacher. I am also a black feminist scholar of Black Religion and Black Diaspora Studies. So on...
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A Preemptive Strike: Cannibalizing Queer People of Color in the Aftermath of the Orlando Massacre
This isn’t an open letter. It’s cautionary. Warning tape surrounds this statement. Enter at your own risk.
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cadencia (a poem for Orlando)
By Martina “Mick” Powell for KJ Morris and all the beautiful people we lost in Orlando, FL on June 12, 2016 & that...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Two Poems: “I Refuse” and “The Wage”
By Lytasha Marie Blackwell The following piece was written while I was a junior in high school. This piece reflects my concerns, views, passion,...
