All posts tagged "Bodies"
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: From Pernicious Editing to Audacious Rescripting (Benediction)
In her Introduction to Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (2002), an edited collection of essays engaging the hyper-presence of...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Received: Black Women and Our Talking Bodies
By Neichelle Guidry One Sunday during my childhood, a woman in my church approached me with a “gift.” “God has led me to give this...
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My Disability is a Joke
By Caddie Alford What if your disability were just a punchline? Online at The New York Times Opinion, they’re thinking about disability. Funny how quickly...
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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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Ending the Colonial/Modern Occupation of Indigenous Women’s Bodies in Guatemala and Perú
By Pascha Bueno-Hansen On Friday, March 4, 2016, a group of survivors, advocates, and activists occupied the entrance to the Peruvian national criminal court,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Cunt-a-loupe
By Holly Ryan Taken of the artist, by the artist, Cunt-a-loupe explores a woman’s individual sexuality as a pleasureful and empowering experience. The photograph is inspired...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Why Were We Laughing at Drake’s Dancing in “Hotline Bling?”: On Body Movement and Black Masculinity
By Lauren M. Todd In the past month, there has been a huge buzz of unabashed laughter at the Grammy-Award winner, Billboard Chart record breaker,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, for the professor who hurt me & got away with it
By Martina “Mick” Powell *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* i will let you have this...
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Two Poems by Megan Arlett
Period. Stop. In England, where I paused my mother’s period for nine months, period means period. Period. And ‘full stop’ means a period. A single...
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Poetry: “Madame X–” by Lauren K. Alleyne
Madame X— she a hustler a hussy shaking her bustled booty up and down town all smiles and wiles and...
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Poem: “existing while being female”
By Jenuine Poetess I don’t want to wear special nail polish don’t want to pay for self-defense classes don’t want to maintain this...
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Clap Back: Why I’m Here for Amber Rose and Black Women’s Sexual Agency
By Ashleigh Shackelford After hearing Kanye West’s comments in his interview on “The Breakfast Club,” where he spoke on his prior relationship with Amber Rose, I decided...
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Slavery: the Haunting Legacy of Sterilization Abuse in California State Prisons
By Tala Khanmalek Last year the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) announced that nearly 150 female prisoners in California were sterilized without consent from 2006 to...
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Hello vs. Holla? A Letter to the Hollaback Folks
By Rebecca Wanzo Like every woman I know, I’ve been in public places and experienced harassment from male strangers. I remember being in high...
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Music Feature: Las Krudas Cubensi – “Mi Cuerpo es Mio” [VIDEO]
Las Krudas Cubensi are Cuban Hip Hop MCs, independent musicians, poets, and theater performers representing womyn, immigrants, queer people and people of color through action as...
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Personal is Political: Get Your Hormones Out of My Body
I believe that any safe birth control option should be made available to anyone (male or female) who wishes to exert control over their reproductive...
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Fiction Feature: from “Kill Marguerite,” by Megan Milks
By Megan Milks This excerpt from the short story “Kill Marguerite” takes place after the protagonist, Caty, has already beat Level One and killed...
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Personal is Political: My Vagina (Part II)
This isn’t my way of confessing that I’d rather have a vagina, or that I’ve ever seriously thought about it. It’s just my way of...
