By Judy Rohrer In the beginning of September I published a short article on a Hawai’i news site analyzing what I thought to be obvious...
By Fiona Gilligan It is Monday, 6 June 2016. A year since the inaugural march, organizers of the mass social-media-born movement #NiUnaMenos renewed their...
By Laura Honsig “Capital-P-Productivity” is what a friend of mine called it once. For a long time I’ve been trying to put words to an...
By Angela Kong “What’s your major?” They ask me. I pause. I always pause. I’ve never been the type to speak up in class....
By vanessa rose I’m not the girl of your dreams so please stop calling me that I’m not your pin-up fantasy Why is that the...
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...
By Aisha Jitan Everyone should be a feminist. Tell me you are a believer of justice, true freedom, A believer in fundamental human rights....
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...
By Ibram X. Kendi In the prologue of my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, I...
This isn’t an open letter. It’s cautionary. Warning tape surrounds this statement. Enter at your own risk.
4th of July: San Bernardino 2015 South of the freeway fireworks spit out the whole of July. Booms blare louder than backfires, thundering...
By Lytasha Marie Blackwell The following piece was written while I was a junior in high school. This piece reflects my concerns, views, passion,...
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,...
By Sarena Tien You slide the bracelet over your hand, expecting it to fall straight down your forearm. “Hey,” you say to your friend,...
By Julie Winterich If you find this title ugly, you’re right. It’s jarring and upsetting. So is sexual violence. I’m a professor of sociology...
By Taylor Bak I will write these poems until I prove you wrong, I will write these poems even if they’re a “waste...
By Keisha Blain Adelaide Casely Hayford was, as she once described herself, a “race woman through and through.” Like Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Una Marson, and...
Inspired by the work of June Jordan we have both offered artistic, sonic, and poetic meditations on June Jordan’s, A Poem about My Rights.