All posts tagged "Politics"
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Surrogate Feminism
By Rebecca Heilweil She has my eyes. They’re a cool dark-blue, shaped by chubby almond lids and framed by cornstalk blonde hair. They’re our eyes....
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A Latina’s Perspective on MBK
On July 10, women of color spoke out on President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) policy initiative, in a webinar sponsored by the African American...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Refusing to Compromise My Beliefs
By Christina Peterson As a student, I never thought I would be stuck in a place where I face the possibility of failing a class...
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From Corpses, Artworks and Dreams of by Raha Namy
The novel Corpses, Arts and Dreams of is a triptych that hopes to tell the story/history of a people of a place and time, from...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pretty Black Girls Just Don’t Exist
By Kaila Philo At least, this is what I’ve taken from you all these years. Black women aren’t meant to be love interests or high...
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Poetry by Sarah Gonzales
fairy tales 2 I wish I could spit rhymes with the ease of a liberated tongue, relay my stories minus the empty hours of...
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3 poems by Ari Belathar
Sleepless song If you had seen the sea flooded with flowers and my words in your hands in my hands the air burning...
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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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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Women with Bad Aim
By Colleen Ladd A group of girls stand in line at the back of a large house with white French doors, the only thing that...
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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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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: ‘Night, Beautiful
By Emma Weisberg You’re beautiful. Why are those the hardest words to believe? The thing is I believe in what other people say pretty easily. ...
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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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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Just Because: Colorblindness Is a Real Problem
By Mohadesa Najumi **This post is dedicated to all the strong people of the world who persevere every day for justice in the face of mass...
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In Solidarity with Mireille Miller-Young: Porn Studies, Context, and Speech
By Heather Berg Various scholars, journalists, and shock jocks have shared their perspectives on the March 4th encounter between UCSB Professor Mireille Miller-Young and the...
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Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (Book Review)
By David B. Green, Jr. I have learned through the process of story telling and sharing that we all come from various walks of life...
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Silencing the Record: Misrepresentation, Gender Politics, and Truth in the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Johanna Fernandez In the last week, conservative media outlets zealously revisited the case of celebrated political prisoner and radio journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. This time...
