We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read and certainly be inspired by this collective statement...
By. Dr. G & Dr. Kimberly S. Love “The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference...
By Dora Santana When I was my own little girl in northern Brazil, a black mermaid lived in a water-well in our backyard. When my...
By Charles Huey Greene My body bleeds brown/ The color of dried blood/ Brown bodies just like mine lie/ In the streets naked/ In...
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...
By Eunice Park You didn’t speak – but you did stare Smile right at me and bare A rock tumbling back and forth South...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
By Arpita Das I find myself increasingly disillusioned with the development sector, even though it has been my professional home for nearly sixteen...
By Ella Gonzalez Today, “feminism” is a loaded word. It stands at the crossroads of being perceived as an incubator for change and progression for...
By Adam Szetela Ronda Rousey shattered the UFC’s conservative stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, now she is taking the fight to Donald Trump. ...
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...
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...
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...
By Lina Chhun Today I sat in my car and I waited for the sun to set. I can’t remember the last time I...