All posts tagged "Violence"
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, 1 in 4
By Courtney Sylvester **Content Warning: sexual violence, rape** 1 in 4 finally gets invited to a party 1 in 4 gets ready for a party...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, First World Problems: How Language Reproduces the Colonial Narrative of Superiority
By Chichi Okonkwo The 21st century has seen continued “cloud” popularization and, with it, memes. The commonality of memes and our propensity to reduce sentences...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Volunteering Abroad: Harmful or Helpful?
By Manon Arundhati Fabre While considering my options for the upcoming 2016 summer, I took a particular interest in searching for volunteering opportunities in Sao...
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Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: “It Hurts”
By Judy Rohrer In the beginning of September I published a short article on a Hawai’i news site analyzing what I thought to be obvious...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Renewed Call to Action: Argentina Speaks Out against Femicide
By Fiona Gilligan It is Monday, 6 June 2016. A year since the inaugural march, organizers of the mass social-media-born movement #NiUnaMenos renewed their...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Where Flowers Can Grow
By Anastasia L. **Content Notice: discussion of sexual assault and violence** When I was twelve, I was first sexually assaulted by a relative while we...
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Male Ego Bulls**t: On Martial Arts Training, Violence, and Toxic Masculinity
By Jesse Goldberg This past summer, I got to watch a friend of mine win her first sanctioned kickboxing title. I’ve been training in martial...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Capital-P-Productivity
By Laura Honsig “Capital-P-Productivity” is what a friend of mine called it once. For a long time I’ve been trying to put words to an...
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How I Built Community While Researching Accountability
I knew then that if following that truth was healing her and kept bringing her back to this honorable work, that indeed we were no...
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Love Centered Accountability
Living in a punitive, crime and punishment society makes the idea of #LoveWITHAccountability almost inconceivable. What on earth would be unearthed if we began to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Listen
By Sharon Lin I don’t need your misogyny Your happy-go-lucky sugar sweet kisses wrought against wet skin in a tattered skin-tight bathing suit...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Being
By Malia Nahinu A painful existence— Confusing messages, Spoken to us as children in anger From protective mothers, “DO NOT WALK ALONE AT NIGHT.” Dresses...
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The Work of Waking the Sleeping in a Broken World: We Are Together
By Seema Reza I work things out in my dreams. My brain seems better able to work things out in the absence of my effort...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Boys Will Be Boys
By Chelsey Engel Tell boys to start young Look up our skirts when we’re not paying attention And when they’re older and ask us to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, 3 poems by Jordan Durham
________________________________________________________________________________ Jordan Durham holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho where she was the 2015-16 Centrum Fellow. Her poems...
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3 poems by Torrin A. Greathouse
Definitions after Keaton St. Micheal BOY /boi/ noun dirt stained palms & tar black feet. the soft prayer-mat of bloody knees...
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A Preemptive Strike: Cannibalizing Queer People of Color in the Aftermath of the Orlando Massacre
This isn’t an open letter. It’s cautionary. Warning tape surrounds this statement. Enter at your own risk.
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Two Poems: “I Refuse” and “The Wage”
By Lytasha Marie Blackwell The following piece was written while I was a junior in high school. This piece reflects my concerns, views, passion,...
