All posts tagged "violence against women"
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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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Elementary Feminisms: Two Poems by Lorean Galarza
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Dominos Fall Quickly
By Emily Barasch The dominos fall quickly in the way that I choose And I have to act...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pretty Black Girls Just Don’t Exist
By Kaila Philo At least, this is what I’ve taken from you all these years. Black women aren’t meant to be love interests or high...
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Poetry by Sarah Gonzales
fairy tales 2 I wish I could spit rhymes with the ease of a liberated tongue, relay my stories minus the empty hours of...
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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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Rethinking Resilience in Violence Against Women Debates
By Emily Lindsay Jackson The article “Safe Passage,” written by Diane Hill of the Canadian Women’s Foundation, advocates young women develop “resilience” to overcome the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Woman Made From Iron
By Mohadesa Najumi Dedicated to my mother. They try to shrink you. Tame you. Convince you that all your rage is a product of your...
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Personal is Political: When Women Hit Women
Cinnamon Williams, "It follows that we think part of dismantling patriarchy entails focusing on how men misuse, mistreat, and abuse women. While equally important, we...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: For Darker Sisters
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes I am the great-great-great grandson of former enslaved Georgians—the Johnson family to be exact. I come from a lineage of individuals whom...
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Poetry by Teré Fowler-Chapman
Truth levitated like smoke Thoughts came from the depth of our bellies Rose and set like a fresh breath in Out of all the...
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Women, Men, Horses, and the Wild, Wild West: An Interview with Deanne Stillman
I met Deanne Stillman in September 2013, and it seemed we had a great deal to discuss. We talked on a breezy, warm day at...
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The Battle Against Misogyny at Spelman College
By Banah Gha As a student at Spelman College, I want to share our story of activist organizing against misogyny, misogynoir, as Moya Bailey puts...
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The Link Between Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse
By Sally Stevens, Elizabeth Stahmer, and Cecile McKee There is a substantial body of research showing that when a person is cruel to animals, they are...
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A Letter to Marissa Alexander
Dear Marissa, It was a cold and dark Christmas Eve—sometime in the mid 80’s. My mom, my three sisters, and I lived in a small,...
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Violence Against Women Is Not A Cultural Tradition But A Crime
By Hope Wabuke On Tuesday, October 1, reports the India Times from Muzaffarnaga, India, two women in the Fugana village were gang raped, their homes burned to the ground...
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Feminists We Love: Betty Makoni
Muzvare—Her Royal Highness Betty Makoni, has been honored by her traditional Chiefs in Makoni village and conferred with the title Princess. She is an international...
