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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Love Rests in the Scream

By Brooklyn Payton   Retrieved from http://izquotes.com/quote/238330   Reflecting on the plethora of suggestive social justice images in conjunction with a continual meditative praxis on desired...

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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: And We Sat: Violence against the Bodies of Diversity and...

By Farrell Greenwald Brenner The ultimate connection cannot be the enemy. The ultimate connection must be the need that we find between us. It is not only who you are, in other words, but what we can...

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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Call for Forum Submissions on Campus Violence, Resistance,...

“COLLECTIVE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS”:  CAMPUS VIOLENCE, RESISTANCE, AND STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL Editors: Martina “Mick” Powell (guest editor) and Heather M. Turcotte ~~~ In 2014, over fifty US college...

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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: “Real” Women: A Critique of “Feminist” Transphobia

By Rebecca Long As awareness of the harmful affects of the presentation of distorted female bodies in media and advertising has risen, so too has the use of phrase “real woman.” Generally employed by...

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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: Being a Feminist at Fourteen

By Olivia Emin I go to a school where the boys outnumber the girls. This isn’t a small difference; there are pretty much two and a half boys for every girl. I never noticed the difference until now....

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Victimwashing: Guns, Violence, and the Politics of Whose Lives Matter

Image credit: http://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2015/02/19/the-blame-game-how-guns-on-college-campuses-are-ignoring-the-problem-of-sexual-assault   By Julie Moreau In February, the New York...

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TFW Celebrates David J. Leonard!

We are so proud of Associate Editor David J. Leonard on his promotion to Full Professor! David teaches in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University,...

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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis to Speak at Purdue

TFW Associate Editor Heidi R. Lewis will be speaking at her doctoral alma mater, Purdue University, on a panel entitled “Champions OUT Loud” during the “Championing Equality: LGBTQ Athletes &...

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TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons Receives Sterling Brown Professorship at...

Sterling Brown, 1901-1989 TFW Associate Editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons was invited to be the Sterling Brown Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College during the spring semester of the...

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Can the Somali Speak?: Open Letter to Dr. Markus Hoehne and the Somaliland...

It is with grave concern that we, the undersigned Somali academics, researchers, students, writers, activists, community members and our non-Somali academic and activist allies, write to you today. We...

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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Oncofeminism

By Petra Jans Science has always been my calling, but it was not until I started studying feminism at Colorado College that I began to see the ways in which science was conflicting with my being a...

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Did you find all your terrorists America?

By Yehuda Sharim Did you find all your terrorists, America? 1.3 million men, women and children from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, are dead and now: what is next America? Who is accountable for...

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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: POETRY BY WAFA SIMPORE

~~~~~~~~~ Step by step is an understatement of the Complexity Confusion Exhaustion That comes along with this work, Deconstruction Reconstruction so that many of us can carry on Carry onto a place of...

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Black Women’s Lives Don’t Matter in Academia Either, or Why I Quit Academic...

On May 14, 2015 I resigned from my job as a part-time Visiting Assistant Professor at a university. For three years I believed in its quest for student success; faculty/staff excellence and inclusion...

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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Everyday Athlete

By Mariah Conn   Start workout. My shoe feels loose. Glance behind. This hill is too steep. Nailed it. Oh, the tunnel. Better take out one earbud. I’m glad there’s shade. Mile one. This song is too...

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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Why Human Rights Don’t Work for Me

By Lydia Lopez   Eleanor Roosevelt and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights   Recently, I attended a panel called ​“Women’s Rights in the 21st Century: Fifteen Years After United Nations Security...

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“Race and gender are not the same!” is not a Good Response to the...

I remember Justine Black from elementary school. She was smart. She was brown, but not brown like me. I was black like most of the other kids in our class. I remember Justine because she was a good...

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Op-Ed: Broaden Sexual Assault Education and Legislation to Include All...

By Maria Hengeveld    Since its opening in 1895, Low Memorial Library has become one of Columbia University’s most admired architectural sites. Its magnificent façade and columns draw photographic...

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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: In the Hour of Consciousness: Three Poems by Kathryn Eichner

400 Lux   Clouds forming cosmic rats—patchouli               were the first and last words I wrote in my physics notebook in a stale lecture hall, flooded with fluorescents too dim               for...

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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Nine Times She Felt Less Than Human

By Emily Schultz                                                                                                                                 One When she tried to keep up with the neighborhood...

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