All posts tagged "body politics"
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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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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...
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Date Grape by Freesia McKee
Date Grape “Brewer responds to protests about offensive beer name” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 7th, 2016 What if I took the worst thing...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Flanked by Rappers and TV Anchors @ AAPI Music and Media
By Celine Parreñas Shimizu Typically, academics are neither seen as relaxed like rappers nor glamorous like news anchors. So when invited to be on a panel...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Myth of the Master
By Sophie Alka Whether as a lover, mother, daughter, sister, or in religious life, there is a social narrative happening that is telling us that,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Shame Based Fun
By Sasha Fisher When I was eight years old, I used to make up stories at night to help me fall asleep. They usually involved...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Writing Wrongs
By Rosalind Moran What do you think of when you hear the words “Women’s Fiction?” I know what I think of. Swirly titles on...
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Poetry by Andrea Rexilius
Poem for Jack Kerouac I am the first enemy of Jack Kerouac. He is mentioned again at a reading and I think to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Legislating Islamophobia From Villaneuve-Loubet to Washington
By Amy Oldfield Women of Villeneuve-Loubet, a coastal town just South of Nice, France, had a reason to celebrate on August 26, 2016 as...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, My Journey Within The Social Development Sector: Musings, Frustrations, Reflections
By Arpita Das I find myself increasingly disillusioned with the development sector, even though it has been my professional home for nearly sixteen...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The People’s Champ
By Adam Szetela Ronda Rousey shattered the UFC’s conservative stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, now she is taking the fight to Donald Trump. ...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Do You Recognize Me Now?
By Joy De Guzman On my first days of pre-school a parent asked me with a smile “what are you?” At a time when...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART THREE
By Lina Chhun In this post-inauguration period, we are living with what may seem to be a very keen tension—that tension between the dangers of...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART TWO
By Lina Chhun A few months after returning from dissertation work abroad, I attended a talk with Professor Aisha Finch at UCLA. The talk expanded...
