Sexuality
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“Think about your daughter!”: Motherhood and the Shaming of Sex Work
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...
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Poetry: “Madame X–” by Lauren K. Alleyne
Madame X— she a hustler a hussy shaking her bustled booty up and down town all smiles and wiles and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Exploring Meghan Trainor’s “Feminist” Message
By Emily Wershba A “new” wave of feminism (and anti-feminism) in pop culture has resulted in a newfound respect for feminist pop songs and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Forum Submissions on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival DUE 6/1/15
PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS!! TODAY: JUNE 1, 2015 Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the College Feminisms Forum! Please continue to share...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Deeper Look: Exploring the Violent Homophobia of Jamaica
By Felicia Garcia One afternoon, I was driving to work and I had the reggae station playing on Pandora. Buju Banton’s “Boom Bye-Bye” came on....
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Cisgender FemmeNist reflections on Trans* Justice: Moving from Adoration to Action
By Kari Lerum In my Sophomore year of college a straight-identified masculine-presenting cisgender heterosexual guy-friend surprised me by saying: “I want to be you...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A History of Lipstick
By Zoe Handler I fall in love for the first time. My partner sighs when my kisses leave faint red lipstick marks on their...
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Ganesh and Kali: Seeing Myself in a Feminist Artist’s Goddess of Destruction
By Chaya Babu The other day, I furiously penned a blog post after two simultaneous attacks that I am not the right kind of woman. I...
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Prose Poem: Containment Narrative
By Clare Louise Harmon I dressed blackunderwearredbra I worried that the strap would be seen & then I remembered I didn’t careatall fucktheorchestra...
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Reclaiming the Narrative: On #SurvivorLoveLetter, Community, and Radical Healing
By Michelle Denise Jackson On Valentine’s Day 2009, I had sex for the very first time. It was my sophomore year of college, and I...
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REVIEW: All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color
At the Boundaries of Belief Review of All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, ed. Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer Review...
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Clap Back: Why I’m Here for Amber Rose and Black Women’s Sexual Agency
By Ashleigh Shackelford After hearing Kanye West’s comments in his interview on “The Breakfast Club,” where he spoke on his prior relationship with Amber Rose, I decided...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Are Racial Preferences Racist?
By Denio Lourenco Jr. Everyone has had a time in their life when they have been rejected or turned down by someone they were interested...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Can the Side Chick Speak?: Side Chicks Re(Thot)
By Samantha Crook Now that the “year of the side chick” has come to a close, let’s resolve to have a more “thotful” side chick...
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Afterword: Toni Cade Bambara’s Living Legacy
#BambaraOnTFW Sixty-nine essays, remembrances, love notes, poems, and videos and thirteen days later, my sister co-curator and co-editor, Heidi Renée Lewis and I are closing...
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Feminists We Love: Linda Janet Holmes [VIDEO]
Linda Janet Holmes is Toni Cade Bambara's first biographer and she is an incredible storyteller. During our interview, Linda shared so much about Toni's incredible...
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Liberation Legacy: Fifteen Years of the Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Program and Conferences at Spelman College, 2000-2015
M. Bahati Kuumba and Malika Redmond: The Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference happens in March during Women’s History Month on or near Bambara’s birthday. ...
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Personal is Political: How Toni Cade Bambara Saved Me
Imani Uzuri: I spent many stolen hours crying in a quiet gazebo meditating on the wide sky and trying to understand who I was becoming,...
