Pageantry
By Petrina Crockford The first summer our dads were in Afghanistan, our moms on the base got together and organized a parade and pageant. Streamers hung from the tree branches and blew in the breeze;...
View ArticleA Love Note to Sisters in Struggle
By Leah Sicat March 31, 2013 Dear Sisters, I have learned, over time, that it’s a man’s world in which some men hate women, some women hate other women, and some women hate themselves. And, for every...
View ArticleWar and Disability
By Sandra Trappen Problem According to Chris Hables Gray, “wars do make men” (1997:295). And to this I might add, they make women, too. That said, when we consider gender in relation to war and...
View ArticleNew Revolutions? Finding and Naming Them for Transnational Feminisms
By Zillah Eisenstein In Beirut, +20 women rose boldly to dance in unity w/ their sisters around the world defying injustice against women. My writing is a small offering to give political voice to the...
View ArticleHomeland Security Goes to School
By Nicole Nguyen Image credit: http://america.aljazeera.com/topics/topic/issue/homeland-security.html On a rather dreary day in April 2013, I found myself holed up inside of a cardboard box on a closet...
View ArticlePersonal is Political: An Open Letter to amerika
By Mirusha Yogarajah Dear amerika: My South Asian friend and I were discussing the Boston Marathon bombings and he admitted to me that he thought that the perpetrator might be Muslim. That same thought...
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