All posts tagged "privilege"
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Myth of the Master
By Sophie Alka Whether as a lover, mother, daughter, sister, or in religious life, there is a social narrative happening that is telling us that,...
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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, 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, Imposter to Entitlement
By Diksha Bijlani hey, my mother pulled off a solo raising two kids from the ground up her son a little too much like his...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, First World Problems: How Language Reproduces the Colonial Narrative of Superiority
By Chichi Okonkwo The 21st century has seen continued “cloud” popularization and, with it, memes. The commonality of memes and our propensity to reduce sentences...
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My Disability is a Joke
By Caddie Alford What if your disability were just a punchline? Online at The New York Times Opinion, they’re thinking about disability. Funny how quickly...
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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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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Spectacle of the Transgender Child
By Harper Keenan In recent years, the Internet has spawned a variety of new short film genres, including “The Cute Animal Video,” “The Lip Sync...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, What I Should Have Said Then
By Emily Rooney * “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* Dear Mr. Nathan Cooley, I’m sure...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: In the Hour of Consciousness: Three Poems by Kathryn Eichner
400 Lux Clouds forming cosmic rats—patchouli were the first and last words I wrote in my physics notebook...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Forum Submissions on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival DUE 6/1/15
PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS!! TODAY: JUNE 1, 2015 Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the College Feminisms Forum! Please continue to share...
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Clap Back: Why I’m Here for Amber Rose and Black Women’s Sexual Agency
By Ashleigh Shackelford After hearing Kanye West’s comments in his interview on “The Breakfast Club,” where he spoke on his prior relationship with Amber Rose, I decided...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: The Day I Understood My Privilege
By Shama Nathan My friend and I sat on his back porch, slithering in the Caribbean heat. We sat in quietness, mostly slapping...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Cops Can’t Come Here: How A Predominantly White Institution Is My Safe Haven
By ray(nise) cange Preface: I started this piece before Mike Brown. Before we were protesting for our rights. I started this one day after running...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Can the Side Chick Speak?: Side Chicks Re(Thot)
By Samantha Crook Now that the “year of the side chick” has come to a close, let’s resolve to have a more “thotful” side chick...
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F-Bombs to Live By: Feminism, Faith and Functional practices
By Stephany Rose I don’t hate white men. Though having to directly assert such a position is evidence for why my work of Abolishing White...
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Dear Sister: The connections between sexual violence and feminism’s toxicity
By Mandy Van Deven & Lisa Factora-Borchers If you want to know the future of online feminism, you have to know its past. Since no...
