All posts tagged "Patriarchy"
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Rainy Days
By Sarena Tien “It’s her fault that she got rained on” is tantamount to saying, “It’s her fault that she got raped.” Why? Look...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS: On Thongs, Boys and Freedom
By Morgin Goldberg “What is that?” he asked me, pointing to my underwear. It was 11th grade and I was hooking up with my boyfriend...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Being
By Malia Nahinu A painful existence— Confusing messages, Spoken to us as children in anger From protective mothers, “DO NOT WALK ALONE AT NIGHT.” Dresses...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Everyone Should Be a Feminist
By Aisha Jitan Everyone should be a feminist. Tell me you are a believer of justice, true freedom, A believer in fundamental human rights....
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Monstrous in Us: A review of Kaitlyn Hunter’s Over Sized Load
By Sally Deskins “Not Everyone Gets to Be Pretty,” a photograph of the artist donning bloody, streaky red paint and a bulbous, red-and-pink hat,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, SATurated with Pressure
By Jordan Prochnow This semester’s mental breakdown is upon me. The other patrons on my Regional Transportation District bus look at me briefly, my...
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Reflecting Upon Nate Parker and Deconstructing Rape Myths with Aaronette M. White, Ph.D. [VIDEO]
Many Black feminist rape survivors and anti-rape activists (myself included) have been counting down the days in high anticipation of The Birth Of A Nation,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Room 133
By Journey McAndrews ~ for all the Thelmas “Something’s, like, crossed over in me and I can’t go back. I mean I just couldn’t...
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3 poems by Mary Tres
“Pocket Change” The gap between my thighs Is less than equivalent To that between our pay. ** “Caution: Hard (Hat) Area”...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Stop Commenting on How Much She Eats
By Rosalind Moran If you’re a man, woman, child, or even a bright green extraterrestrial who actually does have eyes the size of its...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Ideological Abolition: Divesting Ideas (Not Just Money) From the Prison
By Bella Week There are about as many higher education institutions in this country as there are prisons, and all but Columbia and the University...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Boys Will Be Boys
By Chelsey Engel Tell boys to start young Look up our skirts when we’re not paying attention And when they’re older and ask us to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, On the Gender Racism of Black Men towards Black Women
By Ibram X. Kendi In the prologue of my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, He Thinks You’re A Hoe Anyway! The -1 vs. +1 Woman’s Value Theory
By Mohadesa Najumi I want to share with you my own personal theory entitled “The -1 vs. +1 value.” It is my formula to explain...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Puberty Ruined Me
By Megan Bryde The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny that the effects of the past are...
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A Preemptive Strike: Cannibalizing Queer People of Color in the Aftermath of the Orlando Massacre
This isn’t an open letter. It’s cautionary. Warning tape surrounds this statement. Enter at your own risk.
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, That Why Question Again
By Chi-Chi Ayalogu This is an era in social consciousness when the knee jerk reaction to gender based violence is to attack the perpetrator,...
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Ending the Colonial/Modern Occupation of Indigenous Women’s Bodies in Guatemala and Perú
By Pascha Bueno-Hansen On Friday, March 4, 2016, a group of survivors, advocates, and activists occupied the entrance to the Peruvian national criminal court,...
