All posts tagged "Violence"
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How Anti-violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison Abolitionist
By Beth E. Richie Sometimes we learn our most profound political lessons in the contours of our everyday activism. This is certainly the case for me...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Until the Last One…
By Olivia N. Jones, Mount Holyoke College ‘14 September 14, 2013 was Marissa Alexander’s 33rd birthday. It is undoubtedly incredibly unfortunate that this black mother...
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2 poems by Geffrey Davis
Unfledged What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? — Robert Hayden Weekends too my father...
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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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War and Disability
By Sandra Trappen Problem According to Chris Hables Gray, “wars do make men” (1997:295). And to this I might add, they make women, too. That...
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Degeneracy Now! Suspended Between the Violence of Time and the Timelessness of Violence
Several uneventful Friday evenings ago, I stayed in with my best friend to watch In Time, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. The film, written,...
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Discourses of Disaster and How does it feel to be alive?
I’ve been thinking a lot about representation and competition among trans folks. I’ve been testing out joy as the most vulnerable human experience. Love, I...
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“Writing Under Siege” by Shakeema Smalls
Today, you went to the grocery store where you inquired about a job. You’re on your last $25. Strangely, after suddenly finding yourself unemployed, you...
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Imagining Patsey’s Rescue by Harriet Tubman (Or, Marie Laveau’s Vengeance)
By Janell Hobson Having seen 12 Years a Slave twice (first at a fundraising event and later at a private screening and discussion), I am...
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3 poems by Jordan Rice
Tresses My father rings our apple trees with his own urine, says the scent will scare off starving deer which strip his low...
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Feminist Leadership: Leading For the Least of Us
By Kelly Macías If you’ve been paying attention, the last three months have made for a fascinating study in leadership; or more specifically, the lack...
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Elementary Feminisms: Accepting People As They Are
By Caleb Peterson People don’t always get the rights they deserve, and are punished for things they have no control of. People get killed or...
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Justice for Marissa! Set her Free! (Read and Sign)
By Zillah Eisenstein October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Marissa Alexander was imprisoned in 2010 for 20 years after trying to defend herself from a...
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3 poems by Meg Wade
The Skinning House There’s howling in the woods out back. ………………………..The creepy light at the bottom of the pool. ………………………..All my fucking...
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What Ralph Ellison Can Teach Us about Trayvon Martin
By Dennis Tyler Jr. In light of the recent decision by the school board of education in Randolph County, North Carolina, to ban Ralph Ellison’s...
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Stop and Frisk: Violence Subsidies and the Myth of Order
By Roberto E. Alejandro In a scene from 1952’s High Noon, Gary Cooper’s Marshal Kane enters the town parish in the hopes of recruiting deputies...
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Dear Facebook Friend: A Primer on Racism
By LaKisha Simmons In response to your racist memes and our ensuing discussion. You believe that race “doesn’t matter in today’s day,” that you treat all...
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Deliberate Gaze: Trayvon Martin as Interloper, Outsider, Other
By Lillie Anne Brown A few years ago, an African American comedian joked about having to move in with his mother because he was down on...
