All posts tagged "Race"
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Are Racial Preferences Racist?
By Denio Lourenco Jr. Everyone has had a time in their life when they have been rejected or turned down by someone they were interested...
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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: Buff, Black, Tattooed, and Feminist: On the Utility of a Bro-Feminist
By Marquis Bey A feminist friend of mine—a 4’10” queer white woman—jokingly mocks my “bro-ness,” that is to say, my proclivity to throw around weights...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: “What White Publishers Won’t Print:” Systemic Racism in (Institutionalized) Knowledge Production
By Mali D. Collins In 2013, I began an internship with an academic publishing press. It seemed to be the perfect combination of my dream...
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Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Black Self-Defense in the Wake of Ferguson
By Luam Kidane and Hakima Abbas After nearly three months of deliberation the grand jury decision on whether to indict the police officer who murdered...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Litany for Jada and Janay: In the Spirit of the Lorde
By Cinnamon Williams What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun....
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Op-Ed: The Signs and Boxes Tell Us So: On Sex Classification Policies
By Heath Fogg Davis Sex-classification policies that bureaucratically and physically sort us into the binary categories of male or female may seem necessary and benign. ...
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Hello vs. Holla? A Letter to the Hollaback Folks
By Rebecca Wanzo Like every woman I know, I’ve been in public places and experienced harassment from male strangers. I remember being in high...
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Feminists We Love: Professor Amina Mama
Feminism is the theory, philosophy, politics and practices of the movement for women’s liberation. It has numerous manifestations all over the world. It offers us...
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TFW’s Darnell L. Moore and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Present at “Are The Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality?” Conference
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 10:30AM through Friday, October 24, 2014 at 6:15PM, the Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: #LightSkinnedProblems
By Ashley Millner The hardest part about being African American in a cruel, ignorant world is that many of my peers are unaware that...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Ferguson’s Protest and Its Occupation
By Vanessa Lynn Lovelace On Saturday, August 9, 2014 at around noon, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Eyewitnesses...
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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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An Alert: Capital is Intersectional; Radicalizing Piketty’s Inequality
By Zillah Eisenstein When civil rights activists speak about race they are told they need to think about class as well. When anti-racist feminists focus...
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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: 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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Rethinking Dear White People: One Viewer Questions its Depiction of Microagressions for Today’s Youth
By Monique John While only recently picked up by Lionsgate Films, Dear White People has had the Internet buzzing for over a year. The indie...
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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...
