All posts tagged "racism"
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART ONE
By Lina Chhun Today I sat in my car and I waited for the sun to set. I can’t remember the last time I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Organizing Political Rage
By Mina Ezikpe On 20 September 2016, the day after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, I, with a few others, traveled...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Paying in Order to Perform Labor
By Kylie Nicole Gemmell During my last quarter as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to create, facilitate, and teach my own course. This...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Teaching While Black: The Punishments of Teaching “Diversity” in the Face of Trenchant Ignorance, Racism, and Entitlement
By Stephanie Batiste Race, gender, and sexuality are core concepts in my teaching with regard to the authors, materials, and concepts I introduce. I teach...
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Three poems by Rosamond S. King
Buoyancy* for Simone Manuel your sport is wetness dripping, near-naked muscle glides through liquid, barely making a splash the buoyancy discussed was always...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Disbanding with White Patriarchy, Embracing Ourselves Despite Our Differences
By J.T. Roane The poison that is white patriarchy, has seduced all. It is like what Black feminist scholar Vivian Gordon called in a different...
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Staying on the Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement on the Election
The Feminist Wire is fundamentally committed to intersectional truth-telling. We are uncompromising in this, and we will name the damage. We are not the mainstream...
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3 poems by Nikki Wallschlaeger
Mother’s Day Hangover 2016 I have 3 days of prime emotional anethesization to work through before I get on this creaky jetplane to New York,...
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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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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Why I Read the Comments
By Amelia Roskin-Frazee **Content Warning: sexual violence, hate speech** We’ve all had at least one friend tell us, “Don’t read the comments.” The...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Volunteering Abroad: Harmful or Helpful?
By Manon Arundhati Fabre While considering my options for the upcoming 2016 summer, I took a particular interest in searching for volunteering opportunities in Sao...
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Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: “It Hurts”
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Renewed Call to Action: Argentina Speaks Out against Femicide
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Capital-P-Productivity
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...
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It’s the Whispers
Current activism about everything from the school-to-prison pipeline to police violence notes that our Black children are deemed older than we really are, with knowledge...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Listen
By Sharon Lin I don’t need your misogyny Your happy-go-lucky sugar sweet kisses wrought against wet skin in a tattered skin-tight bathing suit...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, “Wrong or Right, Black or White?”: The Convergence of Race, Gender, and Justice in Constructions of Catwoman
By Jazlyn Andrews Have you ever felt so intrigued by a fictional character that you want to explore every facet of them until they...
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My Education in Racism
By PK Read I was eight the first time I took conscious note of a racial epithet. The year was 1970, the speaker was a...
