All posts tagged "Family"
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Poetry By Jaclyn Weber
The Walking Dead Girl in my history class totally started looking like a zombie from The Walking Dead. ...
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Poem Suite: Missing
Tourists By Em Bowen Around this time last year, I started to read books about grief. I like to think that I did this because...
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Poem Suite: Family
3/4 Profile by Rasiqra Revulva “A night full of talking that hurts, my worst held-back secrets: everything has to do with loving and not loving...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Woman Made From Iron
By Mohadesa Najumi Dedicated to my mother. They try to shrink you. Tame you. Convince you that all your rage is a product of your...
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Nigerian Girls Deserve Better Than This
By Minna Salami On April 14, over two hundred girls aged twelve to seventeen were kidnapped from their school hostel in Borno, a Nigerian state that...
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Poems by Liz Latty
How to be a Normal Family 1. A small girl wriggles around on the couch under a blanket. Rubs the soft corner against her cheek....
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Finding Your Different
By Vaidehi Mujumdar We’ve already buried so much of our different, it feels so hard to find. Almost every day, my friend and I exchange...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: For Darker Sisters
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes I am the great-great-great grandson of former enslaved Georgians—the Johnson family to be exact. I come from a lineage of individuals whom...
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2 poems by Margaree Little
BLACKBERRY GARDEN As though by going back to it now it would become clear—or more than that, say what you mean, come right, a resolution...
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Personal is Political: Should I Be Telling You This?
By Sarah Brent “If two people come together, who’ve never had any power except by the way of abuse, it’s going to be bad. Both...
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Book Review: “A Penny Saved” by Arisa White
A Penny Saved, by Arisa White (Willow Books) Reviewed by Sarah Mantilla Griffin Between September 2001 and June 2012, far more American women...
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*Pretty Sparkly Things: A Black Girl’s Encounter with the Prison Industrial Complex
I love clothes. I always have. As a black girl coming of age in the early 1990s, I was up on all the adornment trends:...
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Long Distance Revolutionary: An Intergenerational Conversation
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Clyde Gumbs and Jared Gumbs This summer I attended a screening of Prison Radio’s film about Mumia Abu-Jamal, Long Distance Revolutionary. Mumia...
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Excerpts from Sir by HR Hegnauer
Dear Sir, I am afraid to say, I love you — a collection of simple sounds. I know this is the softest room in...
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An excerpt from The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom
eraser: She found it in the corner. She picked it up. Brought it close. This happened at a time when her head was unusually...
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3 poems by Valerie Bandura
Vagina and Cross-Cocks For their flag, ……….a sliced pair of white boxers, and on it, ………………………………………………………………in marmalade, the diamond shape of a vagina...
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2 poems by Geffrey Davis
Unfledged What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? — Robert Hayden Weekends too my father...
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Fiction Feature: CORONA by Bushra Rehman
Corona (and I’m not talking about the beer) Corona, Queens 1983 Corona, and I’m not talking about the beer. I’m talking about a little village...
