Youth
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Burying Our Babies: Letter from Los Angeles to Ferguson
In South Los Angeles’s Crenshaw District, there are three funeral homes within a one mile radius of each other. On bright sunny days, young people...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Ferguson’s Protest and Its Occupation
By Vanessa Lynn Lovelace On Saturday, August 9, 2014 at around noon, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Eyewitnesses...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Just in Case
By Megan Koopman When you become a woman and your breasts start to show in a way that makes vice principals shake and neighborhood...
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Elementary Feminisms: Two Poems by Lorean Galarza
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Editorial: Michael Brown and Anti-Black Violence
A young black man was killed this weekend. He was shot multiple times by police while walking to his grandmother’s house. He was left to...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Dominos Fall Quickly
By Emily Barasch The dominos fall quickly in the way that I choose And I have to act...
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Elementary Feminisms: Anthem for a New Breed
By Victoria Schulte The word “feminist” is loaded and can carry bad connotations. The word “feminist,” often generates two types of thoughts; (1) social, economic, and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Surrogate Feminism
By Rebecca Heilweil She has my eyes. They’re a cool dark-blue, shaped by chubby almond lids and framed by cornstalk blonde hair. They’re our eyes....
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Refusing to Compromise My Beliefs
By Christina Peterson As a student, I never thought I would be stuck in a place where I face the possibility of failing a class...
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13 Challenges Legislators Underestimate when Fighting Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Minors
By Aya de Leon Concern about sex trafficking of underage girls is on the rise throughout the US. Various states are considering or have passed legislation...
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The Babies on Facebook
By Susan Harlan Today, the babies have no say. The babies are abroad. They’re in Rome, or on the top of a mountain (in a...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pretty Black Girls Just Don’t Exist
By Kaila Philo At least, this is what I’ve taken from you all these years. Black women aren’t meant to be love interests or high...
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Homeland Security Goes to School
By Nicole Nguyen On a rather dreary day in April 2013, I found myself holed up inside of a cardboard box on a closet shelf some...
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The White Family: A Case for National Action
In the recent swirl of epic violence, mayhem and gun-besotted hysteria that has become the lifeblood of corporate media, no one is asking about the...
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200 Black Men Ask POTUS: What About Our Sisters?
Today, the White House released a report that was spearheaded by an interagency task force organized to advise President Obama on the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) policy...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Poetry By Jaclyn Weber
The Walking Dead Girl in my history class totally started looking like a zombie from The Walking Dead. ...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Women with Bad Aim
By Colleen Ladd A group of girls stand in line at the back of a large house with white French doors, the only thing that...
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No One is Disposable: Dean Spade, Reina Gossett and CeCe McDonald Discuss Prison Abolition
By Roges Ahnet No One Is Disposable: Everyday Acts of Prison Abolition highlights the importance of utilizing a prison abolitionist framework to confront and dismantle...
