All posts tagged "Violence"
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2 poems by DarkMatter
the bible belt by Alok Vaid-Menon i am back in my hometown when i receive the news that Leelah, a 17 year old trans woman in...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: The Lucky Ones [Trigger Warning: Discusses Sexual Abuse]
By Anonymous This is how her story...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: When She Breaks Your Heart: A Collection of Poems
By Ray Fraizer ~~~ Fear Tell me what fear is when you’re going eighty on E smoking what your father smelled like when...
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Poem: “existing while being female”
By Jenuine Poetess I don’t want to wear special nail polish don’t want to pay for self-defense classes don’t want to maintain this...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: Being a Feminist at Fourteen
By Olivia Emin I go to a school where the boys outnumber the girls. This isn’t a small difference; there are pretty much two and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: And We Sat: Violence against the Bodies of Diversity and Transparency (DAT) Student Movement at Syracuse University
By Farrell Greenwald Brenner The ultimate connection cannot be the enemy. The ultimate connection must be the need that we find between us. It is...
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Selections from Sequoia Maner, Mahogany L. Browne, Veronica Golos, JP Howard, and Zanzooba Magdoos – Finalists for our Poetry Contest
The following 5 pieces were finalists for our 1st TFW Poetry Contest, judged by Evie Shockley. Please click the above link for an audio recording...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Love Rests in the Scream
By Brooklyn Payton Reflecting on the plethora of suggestive social justice images in conjunction with a continual meditative praxis on desired results of...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: The Day I Understood My Privilege
By Shama Nathan My friend and I sat on his back porch, slithering in the Caribbean heat. We sat in quietness, mostly slapping...
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Slavery: the Haunting Legacy of Sterilization Abuse in California State Prisons
By Tala Khanmalek Last year the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) announced that nearly 150 female prisoners in California were sterilized without consent from 2006 to...
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Poems by Lisa Ciccarello
from & if I die, make me how you are It is the sister inside him that makes him slow. She writes...
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Elementary Feminisms: A Call to Young Women
By Shama Nathan Recently, I came across an old post that had quickly surfaced on Tumblr. The post was discussing the problem with teaching girls...
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#FergusonFridays: If it wasn’t for the women…[i]
The reality is that the women and girls are the fabric of the community and hold all together. The women usually think and work for...
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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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Excerpts from Damnation by Janice Lee
CONFESSION Sometimes one willingly enters a dark and empty space, the creaking of the loose boards below, the phantom moonlight above. · I had a...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Refusing to Compromise My Beliefs
By Christina Peterson As a student, I never thought I would be stuck in a place where I face the possibility of failing a class...
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From Corpses, Artworks and Dreams of by Raha Namy
The novel Corpses, Arts and Dreams of is a triptych that hopes to tell the story/history of a people of a place and time, from...
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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...
