All posts tagged "Writing"
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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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Two Poems
By Angelique V. Nixon moon rituals in times of crisis rush of magic enters the body with colorful joy bursts of soothing...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, On the Gender Racism of Black Men towards Black Women
By Ibram X. Kendi In the prologue of my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, He Thinks You’re A Hoe Anyway! The -1 vs. +1 Woman’s Value Theory
By Mohadesa Najumi I want to share with you my own personal theory entitled “The -1 vs. +1 value.” It is my formula to explain...
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Why We Must Write: A Reflection on Tenure Denial and Coloring Between the Lines
By Michelle Téllez My terminal contract came to an end in May 2014, after tenure denial at the public university where I had worked as...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Puberty Ruined Me
By Megan Bryde The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny that the effects of the past are...
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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,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, That Why Question Again
By Chi-Chi Ayalogu This is an era in social consciousness when the knee jerk reaction to gender based violence is to attack the perpetrator,...
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Ending the Colonial/Modern Occupation of Indigenous Women’s Bodies in Guatemala and Perú
By Pascha Bueno-Hansen On Friday, March 4, 2016, a group of survivors, advocates, and activists occupied the entrance to the Peruvian national criminal court,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Where are the Brown Women At?
By Mirusha Yogarajah Watching the show Master of None inscribed a sense of self-worth in me. My identity was relevant enough to be represented...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Love Me for Who I Am
By Natasha Chanto I am nothing like the girls advertised in by the media. I am 5’1”, I weigh 125 pounds, my breasts are...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Bracelets
By Sarena Tien You slide the bracelet over your hand, expecting it to fall straight down your forearm. “Hey,” you say to your friend,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, If College Heterosexual, Cis Men were Raped More than Everyone Else
By Julie Winterich If you find this title ugly, you’re right. It’s jarring and upsetting. So is sexual violence. I’m a professor of sociology...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, New Shoes: Cinderella after the Ball
By Judy Leigh She will need new shoes. She looks at her feet, the sore feet, the feet that danced all night. The feet...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, What I Have Learned from the Women Who Have “Lost”
By Taylor Bak I will write these poems until I prove you wrong, I will write these poems even if they’re a “waste...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, A Historical Note: Pan-African Feminist Adelaide Casely Hayford
By Keisha Blain Adelaide Casely Hayford was, as she once described herself, a “race woman through and through.” Like Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Una Marson, and...
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Ode to June Jordan’s ‘A Poem about My Rights’
Inspired by the work of June Jordan we have both offered artistic, sonic, and poetic meditations on June Jordan’s, A Poem about My Rights.
