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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Disbanding with White Patriarchy, Embracing Ourselves...
By J.T. Roane June Jordan, Alice Walker, Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde At Phillis Wheatley Poetry Fest, 1979. The poison that is white patriarchy, has seduced all. It is like what Black feminist...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to University Presidents, Provosts, and Governing Boards
By Monica J. Casper and Adela C. Licona In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. To Toni Morrison’s prescient admonition we, with due respect, add academics and academic...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Teaching While Black: The Punishments of Teaching...
By Stephanie Batiste Race, gender, and sexuality are core concepts in my teaching with regard to the authors, materials, and concepts I introduce. I teach subjects and materials intentionally designed...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Paying in Order to Perform Labor
By Kylie Nicole Gemmell Fairhaven College Main Building During my last quarter as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to create, facilitate, and teach my own course. This opportunity was presented as...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: What’s Next: a Bibliography, a Journal and You
Throughout the #BlackSkinWhiteSin forum I was asked the question, “so sis, what’s next?” The truth is, this work intentionally leads to a variety of openings – within academe, the Black Church, black...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, American Girlhood and the Confidence Gap
By Christiane Gannon “Invincible” sign at the January 21, 2017 Women’s March. Photo courtesy of author. My female students are discussing their relationship to criticism, gathered at the back of the...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Organizing Political Rage
By Mina Ezikpe On 20 September 2016, the day after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, I, with a few others, traveled to Charlotte to lend support and people power to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to...
By Lina Chhun Today I sat in my car and I waited for the sun to set. I can’t remember the last time I did such a thing. I am not well. I recognize that I have not been well for a long time. This...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to...
By Lina Chhun A few months after returning from dissertation work abroad, I attended a talk with Professor Aisha Finch at UCLA. The talk expanded on Aisha’s recent book, explored gendered dimensions...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to...
By Lina Chhun In this post-inauguration period, we are living with what may seem to be a very keen tension—that tension between the dangers of normalization and the flipside, the dangers of what I have...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Do You Recognize Me Now?
By Joy De Guzman On my first days of pre-school a parent asked me with a smile “what are you?” At a time when I only saw black and white, I confusedly told her I was white. She smiled, shook her head...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Feminism Throughout The Ages
By Ella Gonzalez Today, “feminism” is a loaded word. It stands at the crossroads of being perceived as an incubator for change and progression for some, and one of jaded practice for others. The...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, My Journey Within The Social Development Sector: Musings,...
By Arpita Das Photo Credit: Alankaar Sharma. I find myself increasingly disillusioned with the development sector, even though it has been my professional home for nearly sixteen years. I may sound...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Writing Wrongs
By Rosalind Moran What do you think of when you hear the words “Women’s Fiction?” I know what I think of. Swirly titles on pink book covers. A pair of shoes, or feet, dangling in the sky. Perhaps a...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Myth of the Master
By Sophie Alka Whether as a lover, mother, daughter, sister, or in religious life, there is a social narrative happening that is telling us that, as women, we can contribute, thrive most in the service...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Flanked by Rappers and TV Anchors @ AAPI Music and Media
By Celine Parreñas Shimizu Panelists at San Diego State University event produced by Aztec Music Group: Liberty Zabala, CPS (author), Phoebe Chongchua, Dumbfoundead, and MC Jin. Author photo credit....
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Black Marriage Unshackled: An Interview with Historian Tera W. Hunter
Image courtesy of Tera W. Hunter I recently spoke with historian Tera W. Hunter about her groundbreaking new book Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (The Belknap...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, International Women’s Day
By Macy Casper In March, we celebrated International Women’s Day. I was surprised, given the current political climate, to see the lack of youth media representation on a day that should have been used...
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A Black Trans Daughterhood of Story-Telling-Literacy
By Dora Santana When I was my own little girl in northern Brazil, a black mermaid lived in a water-well in our backyard. When my mom had days off from cleaning white people’s houses, I could be home...
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Entanglement
By Che Gossett Entanglement: “the articulation of a theory is gathering place, sometimes a point of rest as the process rushes on, insisting that you follow” Barbara Christian Entanglement is...
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