Writing
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Listen
By Sharon Lin I don’t need your misogyny Your happy-go-lucky sugar sweet kisses wrought against wet skin in a tattered skin-tight bathing suit...
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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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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Model Minority Myth: “Performing” Asian
By Angela Kong “What’s your major?” They ask me. I pause. I always pause. I’ve never been the type to speak up in class....
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, I’m Not the Girl of Your Dreams
By vanessa rose I’m not the girl of your dreams so please stop calling me that I’m not your pin-up fantasy Why is that the...
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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, Rainy Days
By Sarena Tien “It’s her fault that she got rained on” is tantamount to saying, “It’s her fault that she got raped.” Why? Look...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS: On Thongs, Boys and Freedom
By Morgin Goldberg “What is that?” he asked me, pointing to my underwear. It was 11th grade and I was hooking up with my boyfriend...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Being
By Malia Nahinu A painful existence— Confusing messages, Spoken to us as children in anger From protective mothers, “DO NOT WALK ALONE AT NIGHT.” Dresses...
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Black Reading Pleasure: On finding a Lovesource
By zing taiwo In college, reading the work of Black authors became a watering hole for me. I’d be huddled in the stacks of our college...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Everyone Should Be a Feminist
By Aisha Jitan Everyone should be a feminist. Tell me you are a believer of justice, true freedom, A believer in fundamental human rights....
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, SATurated with Pressure
By Jordan Prochnow This semester’s mental breakdown is upon me. The other patrons on my Regional Transportation District bus look at me briefly, my...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Room 133
By Journey McAndrews ~ for all the Thelmas “Something’s, like, crossed over in me and I can’t go back. I mean I just couldn’t...
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The Making of a Bad Ass Black Feminist: A Conversation with C. Nicole Mason and Aishah Shahidah Simmons
In this interview with C. Nicole Mason, author of Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something In America (St. Martin's Press, August...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Stop Commenting on How Much She Eats
By Rosalind Moran If you’re a man, woman, child, or even a bright green extraterrestrial who actually does have eyes the size of its...
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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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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Boys Will Be Boys
By Chelsey Engel Tell boys to start young Look up our skirts when we’re not paying attention And when they’re older and ask us to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, 3 poems by Jordan Durham
________________________________________________________________________________ Jordan Durham holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho where she was the 2015-16 Centrum Fellow. Her poems...
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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...
