Women of Color
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Personal is Political: An Unfamiliar Gaze: A Muslim American in France and the 10 year Anniversary of the Veil Ban
I find myself unwittingly pulled into an old and tense national debate, laïcité vs. Muslim visibility, where I once again find myself on the not...
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Dalit Women, Sexual Violence and the Geography of Caste: A Journey towards Liberation – An Interview with Asha Kowtal and Thenmozhi Soundararajan
By Sonia J. Cheruvillil Part #1 **** In 2012, the Haryana district in India witnessed a significant and historic moment in Dalit women’s movement. Organized...
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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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A Tale of Two Mothers
By Hanifa Barnes Scottsdale, AZ It is a beautiful afternoon in Scottsdale, AZ. The temperature will reach a high of 80 degrees, as a single...
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Feminists We Love: Regina Bradley
I don’t remember the first time I met Dr. Regina Bradley. It might have been on Twitter; it might have been on Facebook; it might...
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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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Decolonial Intersectionality and a Transnational Feminist Movement
By Sara Salem Transnational solidarity among feminists has often been a difficult goal to achieve because of the continued dominance of Western feminism, the lack...
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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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Emily Lordi: Moving us beyond critique one artist at a time
I am really not sure when I first read the work of Dr. Emily Lordi. It could have been her piece on Janelle Monae; maybe...
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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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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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Two Poems by Erin Parks
By Erin Parks 3 Queens Haiku Strange and strong Women Transcending normal life things Freedom in a word ...
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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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From Feminist Critique to Social Transformation: Lessons from Social Forum
By Rose M. Brewer A little over seven years ago, January 20-25, 2007, I was in Nairobi, Kenya at the World Social Forum. For those...
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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...
