By Jennifer Egbebike Dear Parents, When did it all begin? When did I start believing that in order to be an asset to society, I...
I AM NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT FOREST YOU’VE BEEN IN a Palestinian is killed every 4 days and i’m crying because my bus...
By Chloë Lubell There’s nothing dramatic about my abortion story. I had been with my partner for five years already. It was the summer before...
By Clementine Burnley This is the life that will not be What I imagined for you and me I have gathered information Groped for...
I had an abortion when I was a sophomore in high school. I had another when I was a sophomore in college. Before then and...
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing this on the train traveling from Milan to Venice, Italy. Many people here are excited that Pope Francis arrives...
As I was watching Camille A. Brown and her dancers in Brown’s latest work, Black Girl: Linguistic Play during a run through on Sunday...
Period. Stop. In England, where I paused my mother’s period for nine months, period means period. Period. And ‘full stop’ means a period. A single...
Our Abortions, Our Lives: A Forum In the face of repeated attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, stigmatize abortion, impede reproductive justice, punish mothers, disavow children,...
By Fernanda Cunha At my parents’ new house there’s a cat who is always by the big-limbed tree in the front yard. It’s more bones...
By Madihah Akhter One Friday afternoon, as I was settling down to listen to a sermon in my local mosque in Orange County, California, a woman...
By Amy Gleeson sit and be still sit and be still and cross your legs sit and be still and cross your legs and...
By Maria Hengeveld The first time Nike tried to convince American consumers that it cared about women’s equality was in 1987, when the shoe giant aired...
By Robyn Maynard Claiming to be a modern-day anti-slavery ambassador is a highly profitable cause, one that is increasingly popular in Hollywood circles. Most recently, hundreds...
Brided 1) I wonder where my bride is . pigeonwinging and wired to the banister a split-end....
So, of course, I was bothered by the ever-so-tired (as in played out) but still so very dangerous shaming of sex work that is motivated...
By Katherine Freeman I gaze with profound horror upon pictures of the San Juan and Animas rivers, flowing a sickly yellow and orange through Totah,...
Madame X— she a hustler a hussy shaking her bustled booty up and down town all smiles and wiles and...