All posts tagged "privilege"
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Caring Queer Feminist Communities
By Jay Keim At a workshop with the Northwest Network (Seattle, USA), I was asked why I became an anti violence advocate. I felt ambivalent...
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The Impostor Syndrome and Me
I am writing to introduce myself. And to try to answer the question, “What am I doing here?” Every time I think up a new...
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Three Poems by Joy KMT
By Joy KMT Renisha McBride Even now you are being explained away your body laid on the coffee table and autopsied...
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The Able-ist Gaze: Imagining Malingering
By Meadow Jones I’m home from my last class for the evening, and it’s now 7:30 at night. Before bed I will finish grading my students,...
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Feminists We Love: Mia Mingus
One insidious effect of systematic oppressions–including ableism, sexism, white supremacy, queerphobia, classism, and colonialism–is that we become disconnected from one another and from ourselves. For...
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Segregated Sisterhoods and the Mercurial Politics of Racial Truth-Telling
By Shannen Dee Williams “Young lady, you just told my story. In 1952, I was denied admission to the Sisters of Saint Joseph ...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Two to Tango: Sharing Birth Control
By Samantha Maldonado I started on birth control (a.k.a “the pill”) during my relationship with my current boyfriend. It’s the method we prefer. Being on...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Blonde Success: Fact or Myth?
By Ravon Ruffin and James “JP” Miller Do gentlemen really prefer blondes or has a history of fetishization of “the blonde” by media made it more...
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On Refusal, Privilege, and the Calcifying of the Soul
By Jason Craige Harris I am Other. When I come knocking at the door of your soul, you may refuse me, but not without consequence....
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Capitalism: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
By Ariane Beckman A few months ago, The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper published at my school, Colorado College, published an article entitled “Why I...
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Moving the Margins to the Centre: Shifting from Anti-Racist to Pro-Black
By Hana Riaz For many Women of Colour feminists globally and in the West, our struggle with mainstream feminism remains an arduous and painful one....
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I’m Complicated, Just like Feminisms: A Black and White Feminist Working It Out (Part II)
On Friday, April 26, TFW published Part I of a conversation between myself and Dr. Connie Ruzich about all things feminism, race, socioeconomic status, religion, and...
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White and Yellow: Overcoming Racism
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim Race Relations “It’s so nice and warm on the inside that you forget that there’s an outside. The worst of it...
