Personal is Political.
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Personal is Political: Can the Subaltern Catcall?
If we wish to sincerely practice intersectionality in our feminism, then we must look with eyes unclouded by idolization at the white feminists of the...
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Personal is Political: The Myth of Diversity and Critical Thinking in American Academia
American ideals about meritocracy and “pulling yourself up by your boot straps” are myths. They simply do not exist. Education in a capitalist system is...
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Personal is Political: Memories of My Grandmother
I hope I can live through life's ups and downs like she did, by deeply adoring the happy moments and enduring the bitter ones with...
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Personal is Political: Get Your Hormones Out of My Body
I believe that any safe birth control option should be made available to anyone (male or female) who wishes to exert control over their reproductive...
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Personal is Political: An Open Letter to amerika
When people say racism doesn’t exist, they are blinded. They are blinded by the privilege and high property value that their skin possesses; they are...
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Personal is Political: Love Note: Renewed Hunger
Life, vitality, uncertainty—that’s the terrain you tread on when you rid yourself of comforts that your sickness afforded you.
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Personal is Political: Daddy’s Little Bluebird, Daddy’s Little Girl
I hadn't known it then, but my only protector had died. And so did my childhood.
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Personal is Political: On Impact We
LieDieI was in 9th grade, 14, at the start of this story, 5 years past my first period, past my first training bra, and a...
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Personal is Political: The Other Girl: How I Found Feminism When My Mother Went to Prison
I was only 15 when it happened, but it took years for me to understand that other girls weren’t interested in hearing about my hurt....
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Personal is Political: On Institutional Abuse in Psychiatric Facilities (Part II)
I made a commitment then and there to do everything within my power to make mental healthcare a safe and affirming space for all the...
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Personal is Political: On Institutional Abuse in Psychiatric Facilities (Part I)
I told the nurses politely that I wished to leave, knowing this wasn’t the best environment for my health. This statement alone made me an...
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Personal is Political: My Vagina (Part II)
This isn’t my way of confessing that I’d rather have a vagina, or that I’ve ever seriously thought about it. It’s just my way of...
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Personal is Political: My Vagina (Part I)
In retrospect, I blame E.T. for my homosexuality. Were it not for that genderless brown lump, I would’ve never tuned in to the excess of...
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Personal is Political: The Good Life: LIVING with HIV
Jared Childress, "I am a writer, educator, advocate, son, brother, uncle, cousin—an imperfect human being and friend. I also claim my blackness, sexuality, and HIV...
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Personal is Political: How Assata Shakur Changed My Life: The Importance Of Ethnic Studies Curricula In High School And Beyond
Yet it wasn’t just Shakur’s story that impacted me, it was the way she wrote it. She seamlessly weaves the story of her childhood in...
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Personal is Political: What’s in a Name?
"After months of contemplation, it struck me. Why not change this respected German name into its English equivalent? If Ellis Island did this to immigrants...
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Personal is Political: On Misconceived Toxicity, Malice and Failures
I really didn’t mean to participate in an act of solidarity with other women who had past and current relationships with the man who raped...
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Personal is Political: My Mother’s Mistake
Tracy Strauss on mother-daughter relationships, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and PTSD in honor of Mother's Day for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW.
