Mom Enough to Know a Predator
By Kamaria Muntu Editor 15 May 2012, 22:15 GMT With an internet barraged with breastfeeding women wearing expressions more suited to Penthouse centerfolds than brochures touting the considerable health...
View ArticleThis Month, This Mourning: A Birhday Tribute
By Kamaria Muntu 29 May 2012, GMT 22:59 Nana, This mourning does not ebb. For the number of those who put the well-being of others first, who sacrifice without complaint or return are becoming scare...
View ArticleComing Through © By Lena Zaghmouri
Excerpt “Mom told us countless stories about her family. People always seemed surprised when I told them Mom was the storyteller in the family. My baba was the Arab. He was the one who was supposed...
View ArticleFireflies ©
~ for my mother Do you know that Georgia becomes black? at night, in Atlanta which is named from Atlantis The city under the sea And the darkness is aqueous, swimming, due chiefly to the cast from...
View ArticleFree Marissa Alexander and 10 Haikus
The Beautiful, Innocent and 5′ 2″ Marissa Alexander Marissa Alexander has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting a warning shot into the air after her husband threatened to beat her yet...
View ArticleFriday the 13th Superstition: Tribute to Misogyny
From the Team Walpurgisnacht (Night of the Witches” by Ary Stillman Irrational fear of Friday the 13th is called Paraskevidekatriaphobia (first coined in 1911). Friday the 13th of July, 2012 is the...
View ArticleCold Care ©
By Chris Burchette There are things left unsaid that need to be said. There are things unseen. This is how I see. I remember my first memory of you. It’s not the one where I chased you with a knife...
View ArticleAppropriating Gabby: Why Can’t Kids be Kids?
by Kamaria Muntu 9th November 2012, 14:22 GMT Editor, Femficatio A teacher friend in Savannah, Georgia told me a story about how an African-American freshman high-school girl was left behind on a field...
View ArticleAugust 31, 2005 © by Aldo Tambellini
you might have seen her face in some associated press photo somewhere in some daily paper’s pages to you & me dots on a faceless woman’s face you might have seen her face a fraction of a sec. on TV...
View ArticleReality, If We Know It. My Personal Quest to Understand Motherhood
By Malkia Charlee NoCry 4th February 2013, 17:30 GMT I don’t often write personally, but as a Feminist I know that the political is the personal, and thus its inverse. I have always wanted children –...
View ArticleI am Here but I’m Not There © By Ruth Marimo
“I’m here but I’m not there in the seclusion of homelessness because a father and mother refuse to have a dyke for a daughter. In the deep dark, desperate disgrace of being the only faggot in a large...
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