All posts tagged "Politics"
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Learning from Twitter Trolls: A Feminist Survival Guide
By Meggie Mapes Picture it: I was a budding social media feminist, learning the ropes tweet by tweet. By the end of the first day...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Legislating Islamophobia From Villaneuve-Loubet to Washington
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, My Journey Within The Social Development Sector: Musings, Frustrations, Reflections
By Arpita Das I find myself increasingly disillusioned with the development sector, even though it has been my professional home for nearly sixteen...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Feminism Throughout The Ages
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Do You Recognize Me Now?
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART THREE
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART TWO
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART ONE
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Organizing Political Rage
By Mina Ezikpe On 20 September 2016, the day after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, I, with a few others, traveled...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, American Girlhood and the Confidence Gap
By Christiane Gannon My female students are discussing their relationship to criticism, gathered at the back of the room in two groups. On the left...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Paying in Order to Perform Labor
By Kylie Nicole Gemmell During my last quarter as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to create, facilitate, and teach my own course. This...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Disbanding with White Patriarchy, Embracing Ourselves Despite Our Differences
By J.T. Roane The poison that is white patriarchy, has seduced all. It is like what Black feminist scholar Vivian Gordon called in a different...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, @catcallsofnyc
By Sophie Sandberg I’ve always liked dressing in a “feminine” way. I love sundresses, low cut shirts, short skirts. I like how these clothes look...
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Poetry by Kenji C. Liu
Dear 易経 (I Ching), What is the best way to destroy patriarchy? ~ In our time, people are simply benchmarks. Out here, due process is a bullet. ....
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Allegorical fiction by Elizabeth Frankie Rollins
Antwerp, Alone The day that Louise died, Antwerp felt he was going blind. He was weeping and could not stop his weeping. He’d been...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Why I Read the Comments
By Amelia Roskin-Frazee **Content Warning: sexual violence, hate speech** We’ve all had at least one friend tell us, “Don’t read the comments.” The...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Volunteering Abroad: Harmful or Helpful?
By Manon Arundhati Fabre While considering my options for the upcoming 2016 summer, I took a particular interest in searching for volunteering opportunities in Sao...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When Being Sex Positive Isn’t Enough
By Chloe Sariego Since binaries are so early 2000s, I’m increasingly less interested in “pro” and “anti” porn debates. I’ve been a pro-porn feminist for...
