All posts tagged "sexism"
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Deeper Look: Exploring the Violent Homophobia of Jamaica
By Felicia Garcia One afternoon, I was driving to work and I had the reggae station playing on Pandora. Buju Banton’s “Boom Bye-Bye” came on....
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A History of Lipstick
By Zoe Handler I fall in love for the first time. My partner sighs when my kisses leave faint red lipstick marks on their...
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Beyond Saying Her Name
#SayHerName: Toward a Gender Inclusive Analysis of State Violence report’s release is timed to support mobilization for a National Day of Action on Black Women...
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Black Women’s Lives Don’t Matter in Academia Either, or Why I Quit Academic Spaces that Don’t Value Black Women’s Life and Labor
On May 14, 2015 I resigned from my job as a part-time Visiting Assistant Professor at a local university. For three years I believed in...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: My Message to Anti-Abortionists
By Anonymous Dear Picketer, Pulling into the abortion clinic you were there to greet me after my hour-and-a-half long drive across the state line....
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Oncofeminism
By Petra Jans Science has always been my calling, but it was not until I started studying feminism at Colorado College that I began to...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Cultural Plagiarism
By Shantel Perry Cultural appropriation is a continuing epidemic in the United States (US). Yes I said it, Black Culture (although we are not...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: The Lucky Ones [Trigger Warning: Discusses Sexual Abuse]
By Anonymous This is how her story...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: Being a Feminist at Fourteen
By Olivia Emin I go to a school where the boys outnumber the girls. This isn’t a small difference; there are pretty much two and...
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On the Eating of Tails by Lily Hoang
On the Eating of Tails Once I wrote a miniature book that I called a novellete that I called Webcam Sex and it was about...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: “Real” Women: A Critique of “Feminist” Transphobia
By Rebecca Long As awareness of the harmful affects of the presentation of distorted female bodies in media and advertising has risen, so too has...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: And We Sat: Violence against the Bodies of Diversity and Transparency (DAT) Student Movement at Syracuse University
By Farrell Greenwald Brenner The ultimate connection cannot be the enemy. The ultimate connection must be the need that we find between us. It is...
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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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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Mama: A Short Story
By Nora Kervroëdan Mama always told me I should not complain. Stop whining, she would say. Be happy with what you’ve got. I...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Threw Me Chair
By Hannah Seelman He threw me into a chair, into despair as the blood rain warm, drip drop drip...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Precious Life
By Sarah de Schweinitz The first thing I notice in this advertisement is the model’s closed eyes. She appears to be either sleeping...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Three Poems to End Domestic Violence
By Stephanie Carter under his control sweet lullabies, he watches you dreaming. only so he can destroy them when you hit reality, as...
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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...
