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A Commitment to/with/for The Damned
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The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
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)
#eulogizingaretha: A Reflection Upon a Musical Selection: “Mary, Don’t You Weep”
#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: A Rose Is Still A Rose
#eulogizingaretha: The Queen Saved My Soul
#eulogizingaretha: A Natural Black Woman: Aretha Franklin’s #BlackGirlMagic
#eulogizingaretha: Her life. Her love for us. Our love for her.
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3 Reasons Why You Should Be Paying Attention to Moral Mondays in North Carolina
“Grotesque” is the word the New York Times used in an editorial today to describe North Carolina politics. I can think of some others. In...
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3 poems by Hannah Ensor
Marriage A man and a woman stretch in a courtyard. They are both very complicated. I am looking at a photograph of them. You...
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My Tattoos are Not an Invitation
By Audrey Lundahl As a Coloradoan now living in Texas, the summer temperatures are trying. One way I cope is wearing heat-appropriate clothing. Wearing my...
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Heidi R. Lewis Discusses Gender & Sexuality on KRCC’s "Western Skies"
This month, Heidi R. Lewis was featured on KRCC‘s “Western Skies” radio program with Noel Black (Producer), attorney Julie Wolfe; and reporter Stephanie Earls of...
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On Love, Empathy, and Pleasure in the Age of Neoliberalism
In this, the age of late capital and neoliberalism, numbness is desired and the erotic is feared. Audre Lorde aptly deemed this the “fear of...
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Call for Submissions: TFW Love as a Radical Act Forum
Times always seem to be especially trying for those of us committed to transnationally eradicating anti-feminist, racist, and imperialist politics both publicly and privately. Like...
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The Downfalls of Feminism and Why I Am Still a Feminist
By Eren Cervantes-Altamirano I knew I was a feminist when I was in the third grade. Then, I was an aspiring class president in a classroom...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Black Sitcom: A Representation We Can Be Proud Of
By Jeanine Russaw When you look in the mirror, how do you see yourself? In a perfect world, whenever a black woman looks in a mirror,...
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Op-Ed: The Military's Culture of Sexual Violence
By Carrie Reed Earlier this year, a monumental announcement came from Department of Defense lifting the ban on women serving in combat roles. However, women...
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Reading Rachel
By Rashna Batliwala Singh “Are you listening?” Rachel Jeantel asked defense attorney Don West in the trial of George Zimmerman, as he seemed to turn and...
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Feminists We Love: Sandra Fluke
Although best known for her advocacy for gender equality and reproductive justice, for the last decade, Sandra Fluke has devoted her career to public interest...
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Dispatch from the 'Very House of Difference': Anti-Black Racism and the Expansion of Sexual Citizenship – OR – We Need to Do So Much Better at Loving Each Other
By Kai M. Green and Treva Ellison We (Treva and Kai) are Black, queer, trans, and anti-capitalist scholars, activists, and artists based in Los Angeles,...
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Paula Deen's Comfort Food
Paula Deen. Paula Deen. From a titan of the down home cooking industry, $17 million dollars strong, with books and TV shows and a product...
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Featured Poet: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
By LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs bacche kā pōtRā bloom, the dandelion dance of Keisha’s mane. a Wave of bush. her kitchen pearls &...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Chef D'ouvre
By Kaila Philo Douse my skin with bleach, I want to watch it sizzle. There it goes! The brown sky begins to lighten as the bright...
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Gender, Race, And Going To Class: A Call For A Feminist Reading of For-Profit Colleges?
Most of us have seen the ads exhorting us to “call today!” to start on a new future with a college degree. How many of...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Be the Bitch
By Nora Turriago Imagine, for a moment, you are Taylor Swift. You have luscious golden locks, yes, but for the moment brush them aside: there are...
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Op Ed: Paternalism, Not Protection: A Feminist Reassessment of the Burqa and Niqab
By Aicha Marhfour Yesterday, I opened a Facebook message from an old friend, touched that she was thinking of me after many years. But the...
