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Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
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#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
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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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On Grief as Pedagogy
By Simone Kolysh TRIGGER WARNING: Graphic Violence Against Women. I don’t usually cry when I teach. If I do, it is because I am really...
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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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My Education in Racism
By PK Read I was eight the first time I took conscious note of a racial epithet. The year was 1970, the speaker was a...
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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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On the Definition of Strength, Sexism, and Dirty Words
By Dorie Holst A favorite quote of mine is (mis)attributed to national treasure Betty White, “Why do people say ‘grow some balls’ ? Balls are...
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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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A Woman’s Right to Choose: It’s Not Just About Abortion
By Asha Goldweber When I went in to Kaiser to have my cervix biopsied for the 13th time, I cried before the procedure started. I...
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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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3 poems by Patricia Clark
Male/Female He would cut into the belly of one, at the kitchen sink, Mother squabbling in the background, and he’d be up to...
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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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For black women who’ve considered extreme measures when working out isn’t enuf
Yesterday, in awe, many of us watched recaps of Teyana Taylor’s dance performance in Kanye West’s “Fade” music video. To be sure, sis can dance....
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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, The Monstrous in Us: A review of Kaitlyn Hunter’s Over Sized Load
By Sally Deskins “Not Everyone Gets to Be Pretty,” a photograph of the artist donning bloody, streaky red paint and a bulbous, red-and-pink hat,...
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Ceremony of Innocence: a poem about a binary by Catharine Wright
Ceremony of Innocence: a poem about a binary (the title and other lines in this poem respond to William Butler Yeats’ poem, “The Second...
