by Emily Dorffer Mother says I must use my hands. My fingers tremble as I lift the spoon to my lips. By the time it reaches its destination, all the milk and Cheerios have tumbled back into the bowl. “Again,” Mother says. Whether it’s because my muscles are weak or because Mother is watching me,...
Category: Marginalized Communities
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8 Must-Read Feminist Nonfiction Books
by Margaret Kingsbury Trigger warning: this post discusses sexual abuse as well as other types of violence against women. Feminism is essential. 90% of women inmates in the United States have been sexually abused (Waldman and Levi). 700 million women alive today have been married under the age of 18 and 14% of Arab girls...
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HAPPY NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, aka The Appropriation Season
by E.M. Lunsford Wait, you didn’t know it was Native American Heritage month? You’re not alone! And until recently, you’d never have known it by the White House declarations. Native American Heritage Month was begun in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush. Until then it varied from a day to a week long in...
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A Grassroots Effort to Bring Perma Red to the Television Screen
by Chris La Tray “Native women need to tell their own stories. Now is the time for those stories to rise. Perma Red is only the beginning.” —Debra Magpie Earling Debra Magpie Earling, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, is a writer and professor at the University of Montana. She published her...
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Exempting Yourself From the Right to Equality
It’s common for people to believe they’ve fallen into a catch 22 when it comes to freedom of speech and hate speech. If we’re really embracing freedom of expression, doesn’t that mean all expression? Doesn’t that mean that the racists and sexists, the white supremacists and neo-Nazis, have to be afforded the same rights? Perform...
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Sometimes, The Old Heads Knew What Was Up
Why Didn’t We Listen? by Brian Lindenmuth Let’s take a look at some of the spoken word performances, that were accompanied by music, that make up some of the significant DNA strands of rap. The Watts Prophets, Gil Scott-Heron, and The Last Poets are considered some of the godfathers of rap. They were poets interested...