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A Black Trans Daughterhood of Story-Telling-Literacy
By Dora Santana When I was my own little girl in northern Brazil, a black mermaid lived in a water-well in our backyard. When my...
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Skins Hiding
By Charles Huey Greene My body bleeds brown/ The color of dried blood/ Brown bodies just like mine lie/ In the streets naked/ In...
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Where Thought Lives: Reconnecting the Body, Mind, and Spirit
By Kingston Farady I recently moved three thousand miles away from home. Not the home I arrived to as a child, but the home I...
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An Introduction: When Remembering Forgets, What Forgetting Remembers
#TransMultitudes An Introduction By CeCe McDonald, Kai M. Green, and Treva C. Ellison This year for Trans Day of Remembrance, we are excited...
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America Taught Me How To Forget
By Jay-Marie Hill America Taught Me How To Forget america taught me how to forget my name my pain my stories my glories it’s...
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When Narrative Is The Dystopia
By Edxie Betts I preface this writing with a few questions and statements about knowledge in relation to how I feel about copyrights. I...
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Honoring Chef Yulanda
By Evolve Benton Chef Yulanda chef cooked the meals fed us bois confidence fed us bois freedom This is what black boi life...
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When the Tipping Point Melts
By Lex Kennedy When Lavern Cox graced the May 2014 cover of the TIME magazine “The Transgender Tipping Point” I realized the Black Trans iceberg...
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Recovered Histories of Anti-Rape Activism: Celebrating Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Intersectional Approaches
By The Feminist Wire Associate Editors We write in celebration of our visionary sister and comrade/comadre, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, black lesbian feminist, cultural worker, filmmaker,...
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Fiction: Making Gulab Jamun and Kachori
By Jyothsnaphanija Doctor examines mother-in-law’s pulse, fills home with smell of syringes. You remember playing with syringes, when you were a five year old girl, the...
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A Poem by Jenny Rossi
My face a Band-Aid, ode to insecurity I think the new intern is smarter than me the way a lake is wider than a...
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Photographs from The Aftermath by Paige Megan Hawley
My project, The Aftermath, was my way of coping with the after effects of rape. Each individual photograph reflects in detail what happened...
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On Beauty Under Bathroom Lights
On Beauty Under Bathroom Lights by Kimberly Keplar Cross legged on the floor, below the medicine cabinet mirror and glass shelves that were forever clouded...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, International Women’s Day
By Macy Casper In March, we celebrated International Women’s Day. I was surprised, given the current political climate, to see the lack of youth media...
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2 poems by Lisa Dordal
Transaction After the prayers were spoken, the hymns sung and your casket closed, we followed you—Father and I— through the courtyard blooms of...
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Four Poems from the Brothers Grimm by Sarah Kortemeier
Beginnings In older times, when wishes still helped, youth was the witch. A small man lived like a king and also...
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Black Marriage Unshackled: An Interview with Historian Tera W. Hunter
I recently spoke with historian Tera W. Hunter about her groundbreaking new book Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (The...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, You Did.
By Eunice Park You didn’t speak – but you did stare Smile right at me and bare A rock tumbling back and forth South...
