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The Radical Politics of Self-Love and Self-Care
By SooJin Pate When most people think about love, it is usually a feeling that flows outward towards some person or some thing: “I love...
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Poems by Liz Latty
How to be a Normal Family 1. A small girl wriggles around on the couch under a blanket. Rubs the soft corner against her cheek....
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Personal is Political: Seeing Your Self
"Because you know that you are not a minister, or a homo, or a sissy, or a faggot, or effeminate, or sensitive, or soft-spoken, or...
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North Dakota Oil Boom: Frontier Mythology and Gender Oppression
By Samuel M Clevenger In the past few years, Williston, North Dakota and the surrounding area has become a “modern day Gold Rush,” a “new...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Finding Your Different
By Vaidehi Mujumdar We’ve already buried so much of our different, it feels so hard to find. Almost every day, my friend and I exchange...
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Racism, Sexism, and the Myth of the “Confidence Gap”
By Kim Tran Last year Sheryl Sandberg told women to “lean in.” This year Katty Kay and Claire Shipman are telling women worldwide to “stand...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Gazes: The Politics of Sex
By Natalie Hartsfield-Crowe He didn’t want to fuck me from across the street. But he did notice my fine gold fish net hair then...
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We Need More Than Pink Cleats
By Kiana Cox Every October the NFL, in partnership with the American Cancer Society, adorns itself in pink to raise awareness about and funds for...
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Personal is Political: When Women Hit Women
Cinnamon Williams, "It follows that we think part of dismantling patriarchy entails focusing on how men misuse, mistreat, and abuse women. While equally important, we...
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I’m Not Judi Dench. So Why the Hell Would I Forgive?
By Aine Greaney Once, on an expatriate trip back to my native Ireland, I took my mug of tea to the big kitchen window of...
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No More Disposable Love: Expanding the Bechdel Test for Movies
By Lily July Imagine a TV world where being rejected by a woman meant sending her a respectful “Sorry it didn’t work out” note and...
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3 poems by Amir Rabiyah
Our Dangerous Sweetness “caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare” -Audre Lorde When I hear...
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Personal is Political: Becoming a Black Gay Man: Activism, Identity, and Community-Building in the South
Charles Stephens, "Nostalgia is a drug, so memory is distorted by sentimentality. But I cling to my sentimentality, because, in some ways, it fosters resilience....
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: ‘Night, Beautiful
By Emma Weisberg You’re beautiful. Why are those the hardest words to believe? The thing is I believe in what other people say pretty easily. ...
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Rethinking Dear White People: One Viewer Questions its Depiction of Microagressions for Today’s Youth
By Monique John While only recently picked up by Lionsgate Films, Dear White People has had the Internet buzzing for over a year. The indie...
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A Tale of Two Mothers
By Hanifa Barnes Scottsdale, AZ It is a beautiful afternoon in Scottsdale, AZ. The temperature will reach a high of 80 degrees, as a single...
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Feminists We Love: Regina Bradley
I don’t remember the first time I met Dr. Regina Bradley. It might have been on Twitter; it might have been on Facebook; it might...
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calling ourselves into freedom: Black art and decolonial aesthetics
By luam kidane as Black women who won’t accept the world as white supremacy gives it to us there is a jarring, a dissonance...
