All posts tagged "Sexuality"
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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: 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: Can the Side Chick Speak?: Side Chicks Re(Thot)
By Samantha Crook Now that the “year of the side chick” has come to a close, let’s resolve to have a more “thotful” side chick...
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3 Poems by Emily Carr
yolk (v.) he’s gonna havta reach inside you. he’s gonna do it. you asked him to. he’s gonna tell you how old it is. he’s...
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4 poems by Lucas Wildner
Dance/Routine for Rafael . I At the second wedding, in between bass drum beats rattling bones to animate bodies into movement I find myself dancing...
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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: Bringing “All” to the Tent of Communal Healing
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes Inspired by the story of a Black enslaved woman, Margaret Garner, Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved explores the narrative of Sethe,...
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Excerpts from In the Away Time by Kristen Nelson
. January You called me She instead of You. “Where is she going now?” is the first question you ever asked me. You were standing on...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Just in Case
By Megan Koopman When you become a woman and your breasts start to show in a way that makes vice principals shake and neighborhood...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Date Rape and the Good Girl/Bad Girl Dichotomy
By Elena Carter In the hours after I was date-raped and had stumbled, still drunk, into the hotel room where I was staying with my...
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Personal is Political: My Vagina (Part II)
This isn’t my way of confessing that I’d rather have a vagina, or that I’ve ever seriously thought about it. It’s just my way of...
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3 poems by Arielle Greenberg
Who I’d Like to Meet I am on tiptoe scanning our tallest bookshelves for something to pack to read on the plane. I am...
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Poems by Liz Latty
How to be a Normal Family 1. A small girl wriggles around on the couch under a blanket. Rubs the soft corner against her cheek....
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Gazes: The Politics of Sex
By Natalie Hartsfield-Crowe He didn’t want to fuck me from across the street. But he did notice my fine gold fish net hair then...
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In Solidarity with Mireille Miller-Young: Porn Studies, Context, and Speech
By Heather Berg Various scholars, journalists, and shock jocks have shared their perspectives on the March 4th encounter between UCSB Professor Mireille Miller-Young and the...
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Two Poems by Emma Victoria Miller
By Emma Victoria Miller The Water Carrier Last night I dreamt of the house of the girl who drew water, The girl...
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Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (Book Review)
By David B. Green, Jr. I have learned through the process of story telling and sharing that we all come from various walks of life...
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Excerpts from “Let Her: Words, Matter” by Ames Hawkins
I. Julie punched the buttons on the radio, hard double-clicks, propelling the station marker back and forth between the rock and roll of WLLZ and...
