Personal is Political.
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An Introduction: When Remembering Forgets, What Forgetting Remembers
#TransMultitudes An Introduction By CeCe McDonald, Kai M. Green, and Treva C. Ellison This year for Trans Day of Remembrance, we are excited...
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America Taught Me How To Forget
By Jay-Marie Hill America Taught Me How To Forget america taught me how to forget my name my pain my stories my glories it’s...
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When Narrative Is The Dystopia
By Edxie Betts I preface this writing with a few questions and statements about knowledge in relation to how I feel about copyrights. I...
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Honoring Chef Yulanda
By Evolve Benton Chef Yulanda chef cooked the meals fed us bois confidence fed us bois freedom This is what black boi life...
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When the Tipping Point Melts
By Lex Kennedy When Lavern Cox graced the May 2014 cover of the TIME magazine “The Transgender Tipping Point” I realized the Black Trans iceberg...
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Learning from Twitter Trolls: A Feminist Survival Guide
By Meggie Mapes Picture it: I was a budding social media feminist, learning the ropes tweet by tweet. By the end of the first day...
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Yank and Pull
By Keshia Scott “Stop! Here, let me help you.” Your hand clenches around my arm and yanks me away from the stairs. You turn me...
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Trauma and Infinities: How Math Sharpened My Feminism
By Jamie Zabinsky On one of my 90-minute train commutes this summer, I came across a post in my beloved ‘weird Facebook’ group that pulled...
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Women for Women: Why we should be supporting each other, instead of tearing each other down
By Jordan Washington A few months back, there was an article on Entertainment Weekly about Chloe G. Moretz’s comments towards Kim Kardashians’ naked selfie that...
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Beyond Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire: Reclaiming Images of Black Women
Who will sing a Black girl’s song? During the spring 2015 semester, a group of students at Colorado College, where I am Associate Director and...
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We Can’t Let After Tiller Slide
By Viki Peer I was so excited to attend a university-wide screening of After Tiller, the 2013 Emmy-winning documentary about the four remaining doctors who...
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My Disability is a Joke
By Caddie Alford What if your disability were just a punchline? Online at The New York Times Opinion, they’re thinking about disability. Funny how quickly...
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Male Ego Bulls**t: On Martial Arts Training, Violence, and Toxic Masculinity
By Jesse Goldberg This past summer, I got to watch a friend of mine win her first sanctioned kickboxing title. I’ve been training in martial...
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On Gloria Naylor’s Transition: A Love Note
On September 28, Gloria Naylor died of a heart attack while visiting the Virgin Islands at just 66-years-old. I was just 7-years-old and in 3rd grade...
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LOVE WITH ACCOUNTABILITY: A Mother’s Lament & A Daughter’s Postscript
As a Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Activist, I am shocked and ashamed of myself. I am ashamed that I let my...
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Fast
We must ask: What is the relationship between accountability and transformative justice? Justice that transforms harm into something else, like Black love, is hard work....
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On Grief as Pedagogy
By Simone Kolysh TRIGGER WARNING: Graphic Violence Against Women. I don’t usually cry when I teach. If I do, it is because I am really...
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My Education in Racism
By PK Read I was eight the first time I took conscious note of a racial epithet. The year was 1970, the speaker was a...
