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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Finding Black Feminism: A Revelation of Black Hair
By Ravon Ruffin I recently had the opportunity to do an assignment that required me to articulate the ways in which Black Feminist Thought applies...
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Feminists We Love: Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting (Video)
Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities (AADS and French). She teaches comparative diasporic literary and cultural movements, 18th & 19th century...
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Join the Movement and See "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners"
IN LOCAL THEATERS NOW (to find a Tugg screening in your city you must reserve tickets in advance) The Feminist Wire’s interview with Director Shola Lynch,...
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Myths of Progress and Cartographies of Hate
By Darnell L. Moore and Monica J. Casper Definition of HATE 1 a: intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of...
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Sex, Art and Beautiful Garbage: An Interview With Author Jill Di Donato
By Julie Gillis I love art and I love women. As a feminist woman and as an artist, I’ve long been fascinated with the way...
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A Feminist Education
By Emily Turner This past year, I’ve been working in a low-performing school in the South Bronx as an academic coach and mentor to a...
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from Narrative & Nest by Danielle Vogel
from Narrative & Nest by Danielle Vogel Toward Untraumatizing the Sentence— If anything comes through in spite of all this, it is...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Some Thoughts From a Stuck-Up Jezebel
By Monique John Stereotypes are not new to me. I’m black and female—two identities that are the most oppressed of all, even in our ‘post-racial...
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Proximity and the Shifting Contours of Belonging
By Bo Luengsuraswat One decade is a long time. Ten years. One-zero. It’s the beginning of the next digit. A transition. One decade is a...
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Queens Among Princesses
By Kaila Philo We spend the majority of our days primping and preening dead protein adorning our crusty scalps as if, somehow, this dead...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: "Word Association: When You Hear the Word "Feminism" What Do You Think Of?
By Ashley Yenick The young women in this video believe in making a difference. It was astonishing to see that each mainly deployed two words:...
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Op-Ed: Debating Abortion
By Wanda Kolomyjec I find myself debating women, and I am weary. They speak of their belief that abortion might be murder, that it is...
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Harsha Walia at 2nd Annual Feminists in Games. Saturday June 1, 2013 at The Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, B.C.
For more information, please visit FIG.
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Walking the Tightrope: Good Indian Girls, Race, and Bad Sexuality
By Chaya Babu I was a few weeks into my freshman year at Duke when my sister, a senior at the time, said to me,...
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Feminists We Love: Kristen E. Nelson
Kristen E. Nelson is the author of Write, Dad (Unthinkable Creatures Press, 2012). She has recently published work in The Volta, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky Journal, Trickhouse, and Everyday Genius, among...
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Are All the Women Still White? Kermit Gosnell, “Back Alley” Abortions, and the Politics of Motherhood
By j.n. salters Last week, Kermit Gosnell—the African-American “late-term abortionist” who delivered live babies and then stuck scissors in the backs of their necks and...
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Towards Community Wellness: Healing from Trauma through Yoga
By Jardana Peacock Some stories you don’t want to tell. Some places you just don’t want to return to. But some stories destroy you unless...
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Featured Poet: Aditi Rao
By Aditi Rao Dear Mr. Yadav, I too am an Indian Woman “Referring to the recent ‘Slut Walk’ held in the Capital, Mr. Lalu...