Dialogue and Opinion

These attitudes, along with inflammatory rhetoric, often lead to violence, apathy and scapegoating on the part of Western populations. This…

Wine as we know it embodies the construct of the feminine, traded in our cultural circles as the sensual, lighter…

A teacher, healer, freedom fighter, and aunt to hip hop legend Tupac, Assata Shakur has organized against the prison-industrial complex,…

Mother’s Day, by promoting the concept of an “ideal” family, mother, and mother-child relationship, excludes and alienates families that don’t…

Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, is one of the latest women to join the lineage of iconic feminist writers like Maya…

There are many aspects of menstruation that are continuosly misunderstood including the basic processes that constitute the menstrual cycle, who…

The reality is, gender exists on a spectrum -- not a binary. So people who identify as one extreme of…

To those readers who are of a more progressive nature, let me reiterate that it is not your job to…

Postcolonial feminism resists Euro-American feminists’ tendency to universalize the shape oppression takes for women in various sociopolitical and historical contexts.

Our words have the ability to re-write narratives, redistribute power, and shift understanding in whatever direction we choose. They are…