All posts tagged "feminism"
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: My Journey to Feminism: How Feminism Inspired My Life
By Elizabeth Dorssom I first started referring to myself as a feminist when I was 17. Even though I didn’t identify as a feminist until I was...
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Our Sister, Assata Shakur: Life, Struggle, Justice, and Love
By Lisa Brock and Beth E. Richie Feminist women of color activists and anyone who considers themselves our allies in the struggle for justice need...
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Diana by Lisa O'Neill
This piece was written in the liminal space after the Boston Marathon bombings had occurred, during the initial firefights and manhunt, during the time when...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Why The Concept Of 'Modesty' Disgusts Me
By Mohadesa Najumi When I think about what modesty means in today’s political, cultural and religious environment, I am inclined to believe that the concept...
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Op-Ed: Why We Should Ditch the Slow Food Movement
By Karen Hernandez Apparently, pursuing Women’s Right’s has led to the downfall of the American diet. At least, this is what Michael Pollan unfairly implies...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Video: What is Feminism?
By Ashley Yenick During this video, I consulted two students and two professors at Merrimack College. I hand picked these interviewees because they contribute to millennial...
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Confession
By Nancy Kricorian Back when I earned my MFA in Poetry at Columbia, the majority of the students were women, and nearly all of our...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Seemingly Crazy, Yet Sincere Call for a Bra-less Revolution
By Elvia Lopez Bill Cosby knows that kids say the darndest things. Lying by the pool yesterday, I overheard my little brother tell my rather...
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Radical Love, Race, and Feminist Futures
By Brooke Elise Axtell with Monica J. Casper, Heather Laine Talley, and Aishah Shahidah Simmons As we offer this closing statement on our recent Race,...
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Visual Art: "mr. rager" by Theresa Anderson
Theresa Anderson is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist and a writer whose art blog was selected as a top five finalist by the Westword 2012 Denver Web Awards....
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A Love Note to Sisters in Struggle
By Leah Sicat March 31, 2013 Dear Sisters, I have learned, over time, that it’s a man’s world in which some men hate women, some...
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Moving the Margins to the Centre: Shifting from Anti-Racist to Pro-Black
By Hana Riaz For many Women of Colour feminists globally and in the West, our struggle with mainstream feminism remains an arduous and painful one....
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Confessions of a Complicated Latina Feminist
By Juliana Britto Schwartz “You Americans, why are you so obsessed with labels?” The way my Brazilian cousin looks at me, she might as well...
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I’m Complicated, Just like Feminisms: A Black and White Feminist Working It Out (Part II)
On Friday, April 26, TFW published Part I of a conversation between myself and Dr. Connie Ruzich about all things feminism, race, socioeconomic status, religion, and...
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Mother-Love: Reflections of an Asian American Feminist Daughter
By Vickie Nam The rift that steadily deepened between my mother and I emerged in the throes of adolescence, and mid-90s White feminism did little...
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Silence Does Not Equal Absence: Lessons from Arizona
By Wendy Cheng When I heard what writers at The Onion had tweeted about nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis during the Oscars, I felt it as a...
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The Politics of Reading: A Love Note for Stephen Ray
By Shannon Craigo-Snell I was weeping in the parking lot. The required seminar in the Ivy League graduate program had just let out for the...
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Visual Art: "bang bang" by Theresa Anderson
________________________________________________________ Theresa Anderson is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist and a writer whose art blog was selected as a top five finalist by the Westword 2012 Denver...