All posts tagged "U.S. Politics"
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Quiet Miracle of Undocumented Immigration
By Fernanda Cunha At my parents’ new house there’s a cat who is always by the big-limbed tree in the front yard. It’s more bones...
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Memory and Violence: Old South Nostalgia in the Wake of the Emanuel AME Shooting
By Jamie Huff Since the recent killing of nine Black congregants at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME church on June 17, debates about the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Hillary Clinton for President? Why She’s Not the Woman We Need
By: Aviva DeKornfeld Hillary Clinton is a woman and as it turns out, this is big news. Back in 2012, both Clinton and Barak Obama...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Forum Submissions on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival DUE 6/1/15
PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS!! TODAY: JUNE 1, 2015 Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the College Feminisms Forum! Please continue to share...
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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: Poetry By Jaclyn Weber
The Walking Dead Girl in my history class totally started looking like a zombie from The Walking Dead. ...
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Glenn McConnell and the College of Charleston: Hidden Histories and the Confederate Imagery
By Jamie Huff South Carolina’s history as a former Confederate state engenders both resistance and refractory nostalgia. The recent decision to appoint Glenn McConnell as...
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Toward a Feminist Politics of De-Criminalization and Abolition: Why We Support Dr. Mireille Miller-Young
By Tamara L. Spira and Heather M. Turcotte We contest the criminalization of UC Santa Barbara feminist studies professor, Dr. Mireille Miller-Young. As feminists dedicated...
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3 poems by Trish Salah
notes toward dropping out (March 1995) This is where I ceased— Not to be too obvious, or in mutation, or distilled, transmogrification ...
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4 poems by Sonya Renee
A Poem For The Girl Who Solicited Money To Get To the National Poetry Slam (I assume by plane) Because ”I am only 20...
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Diana by Lisa O'Neill
This piece was written in the liminal space after the Boston Marathon bombings had occurred, during the initial firefights and manhunt, during the time when...
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OpEd: The Science of Love Behind the Science of Rape
By: Angela Willey “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Todd Akin’s now infamous...
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Voting as a Radical Act
By: Isaiah M. Wooden and Darnell L. Moore In a different presidential election year, 2004, Comedy Central’s ever-popular sketch series, Chapelle’s Show, featured a boundlessly...
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My First Vote
It’s a strange time to be a young woman in America and to be facing voting for the very first time. When women are still...
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Queer the Vote
By: Samuel “Basil” Soper In first grade, my teacher asked, “Do you know who your parents are voting for?” I announced to my peers that...
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What Does Democracy Look Like?
I’m feeling very ambivalent about voting and electoral politics more generally these days. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I’m ineligible...
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Princess Sofia and Barack Obama: Why I Must Choose Accordingly
For the students enrolled in Latino/a Pop at UT Austin, Fall 2012. Is it a coincidence that Disney launched the promotional campaign for its first...
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Introduction to TFW Voting Forum
Over the course of this election season, TFW has wrestled with the idea of issuing political endorsements. As a Collective, we are committed to a...
