By SA Smythe some call it a comeback i just got back & already feel the need to time travel again. not the way that...
By J Mase III Who taught you how to pray? To conjure? To worship? To manifest? What was the context and intention? I was 11...
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By The Feminist Wire Associate Editors We write in celebration of our visionary sister and comrade/comadre, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, black lesbian feminist, cultural worker, filmmaker,...
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By Joe Pullen Since before Donald Trump was Donald Trump, it’s been a fairly simple proposition: Groom them aggressively, taking a little more each time,...
By Amy Oldfield Women of Villeneuve-Loubet, a coastal town just South of Nice, France, had a reason to celebrate on August 26, 2016 as...
By Arpita Das I find myself increasingly disillusioned with the development sector, even though it has been my professional home for nearly sixteen...
By Adam Szetela Ronda Rousey shattered the UFC’s conservative stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, now she is taking the fight to Donald Trump. ...
By Joy De Guzman On my first days of pre-school a parent asked me with a smile “what are you?” At a time when...
By Lina Chhun In this post-inauguration period, we are living with what may seem to be a very keen tension—that tension between the dangers of...
By Lina Chhun A few months after returning from dissertation work abroad, I attended a talk with Professor Aisha Finch at UCLA. The talk expanded...
By Lina Chhun Today I sat in my car and I waited for the sun to set. I can’t remember the last time I...
Today we woke up in a world strikingly similar to and unlike the world we knew this time last year. Scenes replete with countless bodies...
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...
By Jade Perry Last Monday a good friend sent Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets Part 2” via inbox with the caption, “She’s baaaaack.” I clicked...
By Keri Day I remember encountering Juanita Bynum for the first time as a college student at a Church of God in Christ (COGIC) Jurisdictional...