All posts tagged "Sexuality"
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A Love Note To CeCe McDonald
By Joshua Allen We got to know each other over late night walks in Brooklyn and early morning breakfasts comprised exclusively of cocktails. Even...
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some call it a comeback
By SA Smythe some call it a comeback i just got back & already feel the need to time travel again. not the way that...
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Casting Prayers for Survival: Towards a Black Trans Theology
By J Mase III Who taught you how to pray? To conjure? To worship? To manifest? What was the context and intention? I was 11...
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Skins Hiding
By Charles Huey Greene My body bleeds brown/ The color of dried blood/ Brown bodies just like mine lie/ In the streets naked/ In...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Shame Based Fun
By Sasha Fisher When I was eight years old, I used to make up stories at night to help me fall asleep. They usually involved...
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Moonlight, Black Boy and Teachable Moments
The boys walk through the school quad playing the dozens, verbally slamming another boy in absentia for being a weak “f—g” who can’t be trusted. ...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When Being Sex Positive Isn’t Enough
By Chloe Sariego Since binaries are so early 2000s, I’m increasingly less interested in “pro” and “anti” porn debates. I’ve been a pro-porn feminist for...
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Accountability to Ourselves and Our Children
What we know is that child sexual abuse is an epidemic. It is traumatic. Surviving it increases the chances that you will be sexually assaulted...
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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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EMERGING FEMINISMS: On Thongs, Boys and Freedom
By Morgin Goldberg “What is that?” he asked me, pointing to my underwear. It was 11th grade and I was hooking up with my boyfriend...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Room 133
By Journey McAndrews ~ for all the Thelmas “Something’s, like, crossed over in me and I can’t go back. I mean I just couldn’t...
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Two Poems
By Angelique V. Nixon moon rituals in times of crisis rush of magic enters the body with colorful joy bursts of soothing...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, He Thinks You’re A Hoe Anyway! The -1 vs. +1 Woman’s Value Theory
By Mohadesa Najumi I want to share with you my own personal theory entitled “The -1 vs. +1 value.” It is my formula to explain...
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4 poems by Rajiv Mohabir
The River-son’s Betrayal Ganga, the river goddess, drowned her seven sons as infants. When the Vasus were still unborn she vowed...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Where are the Brown Women At?
By Mirusha Yogarajah Watching the show Master of None inscribed a sense of self-worth in me. My identity was relevant enough to be represented...
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“Defeat Will Be Detestable to Us”: A Tribute to June Jordan
And now, I hung on to June Jordan’s every word. I watched her on screen in Pratibha Parmar’s A Place of Rage. Her words were...
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“These words/ they are stones in the water”: Introduction to The Feminist Wire Forum on June Jordan
Jordan’s insistence on the arts as a source of power was not confined to the limits of the page. She was a fiercely committed...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, (F)Act of Blackness: The Politics of Mixed Race Identity
By Jazlyn Andrews “That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and...
