Male/Female He would cut into the belly of one, at the kitchen sink, Mother squabbling in the background, and he’d be up to...
By zing taiwo In college, reading the work of Black authors became a watering hole for me. I’d be huddled in the stacks of our college...
Yesterday, in awe, many of us watched recaps of Teyana Taylor’s dance performance in Kanye West’s “Fade” music video. To be sure, sis can dance....
By Aisha Jitan Everyone should be a feminist. Tell me you are a believer of justice, true freedom, A believer in fundamental human rights....
By Sally Deskins “Not Everyone Gets to Be Pretty,” a photograph of the artist donning bloody, streaky red paint and a bulbous, red-and-pink hat,...
Ceremony of Innocence: a poem about a binary (the title and other lines in this poem respond to William Butler Yeats’ poem, “The Second...
By Jardana Peacock Trauma is everywhere. It lives in between the lines of the articles we scan on Facebook, in our interactions with others, in...
By Jordan Prochnow This semester’s mental breakdown is upon me. The other patrons on my Regional Transportation District bus look at me briefly, my...
A Review of Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA By Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris JD, PhD I’m a black feminist...
Many Black feminist rape survivors and anti-rape activists (myself included) have been counting down the days in high anticipation of The Birth Of A Nation,...
By Journey McAndrews ~ for all the Thelmas “Something’s, like, crossed over in me and I can’t go back. I mean I just couldn’t...
“Pocket Change” The gap between my thighs Is less than equivalent To that between our pay. ** “Caution: Hard (Hat) Area”...
In this interview with C. Nicole Mason, author of Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something In America (St. Martin's Press, August...
By Cherise Morris i. Perhaps this story starts in New Orleans, where I first felt the grace of place, on the corner of North Dorgenois...
By Rosalind Moran If you’re a man, woman, child, or even a bright green extraterrestrial who actually does have eyes the size of its...
By Bella Week There are about as many higher education institutions in this country as there are prisons, and all but Columbia and the University...
HECUBA Hecuba, rage as if you were still Queen, or at least make a sound, so I can send the kingdom’s remaining children to...
By Seema Reza I work things out in my dreams. My brain seems better able to work things out in the absence of my effort...