White Privilege
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No More Disposable Love: Expanding the Bechdel Test for Movies
By Lily July Imagine a TV world where being rejected by a woman meant sending her a respectful “Sorry it didn’t work out” note and...
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Rethinking Dear White People: One Viewer Questions its Depiction of Microagressions for Today’s Youth
By Monique John While only recently picked up by Lionsgate Films, Dear White People has had the Internet buzzing for over a year. The indie...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: For Darker Sisters
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes I am the great-great-great grandson of former enslaved Georgians—the Johnson family to be exact. I come from a lineage of individuals whom...
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I Knew what Rape was Before I Knew what Sex was
By Shivani Davé I knew what rape was before I knew what sex was. It wasn’t violent stranger rape that my mother told me about....
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Personal is Political: White Beauty: At Home and Abroad
Amalia Clarice Mora explores white standards of beauty for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW, "It’s not just whiteness, but lightness, that grants privilege. Though I have experienced racism and...
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Not My Vagina
By Meera Seshadri “And then there’s the African American moan.” Something prickled under my skin as I sat there in the dark, watching the...
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Every 28 Hours: An Ode to Renisha McBride (A Sermon)
By Nyle Fort The following is a sermon delivered on January 19, 2014 at the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens (Somerset, NJ). The preaching...
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The Gentle Critique in Activist Spaces: A Newby’s First Year Journey on Social Media
By Kimbo Grama Can the online become the lifeline? We’re told, it’s not possible; we’re told that that people we meet in online forums are...
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Caring Queer Feminist Communities
By Jay Keim At a workshop with the Northwest Network (Seattle, USA), I was asked why I became an anti violence advocate. I felt ambivalent...
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Meditations on Being Right
By Lyndsey Godwin This is a sermon that was given on February 12, 2013 at the weekly chapel service held at Vanderbilt Divinity School, an...
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Beyond Critique: An Introduction
Susannah Bartlow, Stephanie Gilmore, and Duchess Harris We envision this forum as a way to map that terrain beyond critique in the means and moment...
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The Promise of Post-Oppositional Politics: A Preliminary Conversation
By Layli Maparyan and AnaLouise Keating Layli Maparyan (LM): How did you come to the notion of post-oppositional politics? AnaLouise Keating (ALK): I’ve only started...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Just Because: Colorblindness Is a Real Problem
By Mohadesa Najumi **This post is dedicated to all the strong people of the world who persevere every day for justice in the face of mass...
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Glenn McConnell and the College of Charleston: Hidden Histories and the Confederate Imagery
By Jamie Huff South Carolina’s history as a former Confederate state engenders both resistance and refractory nostalgia. The recent decision to appoint Glenn McConnell as...
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Toward a Feminist Politics of De-Criminalization and Abolition: Why We Support Dr. Mireille Miller-Young
By Tamara L. Spira and Heather M. Turcotte We contest the criminalization of UC Santa Barbara feminist studies professor, Dr. Mireille Miller-Young. As feminists dedicated...
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Why I Am In Solidarity with Mireille Miller-Young
According to that radical feminist organization, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, domestic terrorism is intended “to intimidate or coerce a civilian population.” Okay, so I...
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Why Sikivu Hutchinson’s Latest Book Is Relevant To an Angry Romani Ex-Muslim
By Maryam Moosan-Clark In Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels, Sikivu Hutchinson takes us on a roller coaster ride through the different, interacting forms of...
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Spike Jonze’s Her: Loneliness, Race, & Digital Polyamory
By Edgar Rivera Colón Spike Jonze’s Her is a cinematic tour de force, but it’s also a multi-layered cultural document of the present. Her, starring...
