All posts tagged "Culture"
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: “What White Publishers Won’t Print:” Systemic Racism in (Institutionalized) Knowledge Production
By Mali D. Collins In 2013, I began an internship with an academic publishing press. It seemed to be the perfect combination of my dream...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Litany for Jada and Janay: In the Spirit of the Lorde
By Cinnamon Williams What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun....
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Op-Ed: The Signs and Boxes Tell Us So: On Sex Classification Policies
By Heath Fogg Davis Sex-classification policies that bureaucratically and physically sort us into the binary categories of male or female may seem necessary and benign. ...
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Elementary Feminisms: How Useful is a Feminist Approach to History for Historians?
By Grace Corn In today’s world, the very word “feminism” can stir up polarized reactions. As a feminist myself, I find it difficult to understand...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Slamming the Door: An Analysis of Elsa (Frozen)
By Shira Feder The Disney Princess franchise presents misogynist and terrifying fairy tales for profit. These stories enforce patriarchal views towards women that instate an...
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Feminists We Love: Toshi Reagon [VIDEO]
In today’s Feminists We Love feature, writer, performer and arts activist Toshi Reagon talks with TFW Associate Editor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about feminist lineages, the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Step One: Show Skin, Step Two: Praise Talent: A Look at Scarlett Johansson and the Film Industry
By Megan Felder I’ve always loved movies. A lot. Romantic comedy, sci-fi, superhero action – you name it, I will watch it. Perhaps that’s why...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Three Poems by Samiya Javed
By Samiya Javed “You’re a King and I’m a Lion-heart” * I’d rather you curse your stars than curse my mother’s overburdened...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Bringing “All” to the Tent of Communal Healing
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes Inspired by the story of a Black enslaved woman, Margaret Garner, Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved explores the narrative of Sethe,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: To the Woman Who’s Made to Feel Like She’s Difficult to Love
By Mohadesa Najumi Dear Woman Who’s Made to Feel Like She’s Difficult to Love, You beautiful, soft delicate thing. You intricate thing. Why do...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: #LightSkinnedProblems
By Ashley Millner The hardest part about being African American in a cruel, ignorant world is that many of my peers are unaware that...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Ferguson’s Protest and Its Occupation
By Vanessa Lynn Lovelace On Saturday, August 9, 2014 at around noon, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Eyewitnesses...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Just in Case
By Megan Koopman When you become a woman and your breasts start to show in a way that makes vice principals shake and neighborhood...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Date Rape and the Good Girl/Bad Girl Dichotomy
By Elena Carter In the hours after I was date-raped and had stumbled, still drunk, into the hotel room where I was staying with my...
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Elementary Feminisms: Two Poems by Lorean Galarza
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Dominos Fall Quickly
By Emily Barasch The dominos fall quickly in the way that I choose And I have to act...
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Elementary Feminisms: Anthem for a New Breed
By Victoria Schulte The word “feminist” is loaded and can carry bad connotations. The word “feminist,” often generates two types of thoughts; (1) social, economic, and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Surrogate Feminism
By Rebecca Heilweil She has my eyes. They’re a cool dark-blue, shaped by chubby almond lids and framed by cornstalk blonde hair. They’re our eyes....
