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The Spectator Sport of Bashing Black Women
By Sikivu Hutchinson In the 1990s, The O.J. Simpson murder trial polarized America and highlighted domestic violence as a national cause célèbre. At the center...
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A Feminist Review of Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania is an animated movie about a hotel for monsters. The film starts by following the lives of two main characters, Mavis and her...
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My Hair: Threat to National Security
By Ashanté Reese The first time a TSA agent probed my hair I was flying from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. sometime in November 2011. My sister-friend-stylist Shana...
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Sisters of the “Yogic” Yam: bell hooks and the Yoga in Self-Recovery
By Sariane Leigh A 20-something skinny blond leading a yoga class gazed at me with a condescending smirk. I am doing my best to hold...
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Feminists…in Pakistan?
By Madihah Akhter As the upcoming U.S. presidential election dominates the headlines, the uncomfortably familiar rhetoric prioritizing religion’s role in American politics continues. One can...
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Afterword: On Violence
Of particular critical interest to us are social and political phenomena that block, negate, or limit the satisfaction of goods or ends that humans, especially...
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Bad Blood?: The Visibility and Invisibility of Violence in the Antagonism Between Native Americans and African Americans
By Tria Andrews and Olivia Chilcote In Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, Frank B. Wilderson III (2010) triangulates the...
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Disciplining Violence
By Connie Wun Subjected to the State In 2011, Jada Williams, an eighth-grade student in Rochester, New York, wrote an essay based upon her reading...
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Fluency
By Royce K. Freeman I used to be fluent. Still dream sometimes in my Native tongue. My mother tells me I would talk...
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Violence Knows No Gender
By Xoaquima Díaz I never thought I would end up in an abusive relationship. Not only because I had always considered myself smarter than that, above...
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Coming-of-Age in Sal Si Puedes
By Rosebud Ben-Oni —Baghdad Beach, Matamoros, Mexico Even the gulls scuttled from the surf: a grey arm erect and bit of shoulder wrapped in electrical...
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Riding Past the Limits of Coalition Politics
By Juliana “Jewels” Smith For the first time since I was a teenager, I started riding my bike when I was in graduate school at...
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Violence on the Border
By Laura Ilardo They say that the US-Mexico border is a very dangerous place. Surrounded by cactus, scrub, and hundreds of miles of dry desert,...
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Tradition Left These
By Royce K. Freeman Critique of tradition happens in the tongue and cheek. It happens while the shadows tend to a bruised back,...
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The Hooferman
By Natalie Diaz I started believing in the Hooferman the night Boy pulled the rope from the old canal—it lifted from the dirt inches at...
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Louder Than the Dark: Toward an Acoustics of Suffering
By Nicholas Brady “Fuckin pig get shot 300 men will search for me My brother get popped And don’t no one hear the sound Don’t...
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Bait Car
By Tria Andrews Maybe to you crime will always be black and white. Maybe because you’ve worked hard and have something to show for that work....
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Surgery Successful for Pakistani Girl Shot by Taliban
Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year old who was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan on October ninth, has undergone successful surgery to remove the bullet from...