Dear Fourth Wave Feminists
A message to Fourth Wave Feminism:
This is how you are ruining my perception of men…
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EXCLUSIVE! First Chapter of ‘The Athena Protocol’ by Shamim Sarif
The Athena Protocol by Shamim Sarif will be available October 8th! Chapter One Sometimes, I wonder if the world might just look better through a riflescope. Crisper, clearer, narrowed down. Less messy. In my crosshairs, a boy soldier, just a teenager, not much younger than me, is asleep. Mouth slightly open, hand flung over his […]
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Golden rule of being a feminist by Snimar
Today I learned the golden rule of feminism. Tip 101 of being the right kind of Feminist. I can’t like the colour pink. So, this is how it works: Pink is labeled as a woman’s colour and if I happen to like it I am succumbing to the pressure of Patriarchy. But, uh, I’m sorry […]
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Equality, We’re Coming For Ya
On March 8th, social media platforms exploded with posts from all around the world in support of International Women’s Day, and what a beautiful sight it was to see the Internet sprawling with pictures of women’s rights movements from the generations before us, to see the hashtag #internationalwomensday captioning almost every post, and to see […]
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Poetic Tribute to a Badass Lady in History: Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was arrested for illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election. At her trial, she insisted that it was her constitutional right as a United States citizen to vote. She was found guilty and was fined $100, which she refused to pay. Anthony was a successful teacher who left the profession and became […]
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To Weather Your Own Violence by Shirley Wang
my girlhood is defined by what can be seized from me, body sowing a war since birth. to be a girl is to swallow loss, it seems. to slicken the inside of your throat and eat your own erosion. so i knead blood into cloth before day pilfers the dawn. i cork my mouth with […]
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Woman by Amy Lauren Jones
Her body lies bare— open; her skin, white-washed in the milk of a thousand lovers; her veins, broken blue threads, skeins of frozen sapphires melting under the heat of kneading hands. Amy Lauren Jones is a graduate music major at Mississippi College, a Christian university in the Jackson metro area. […]
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Phoenix by Sade Andria Zabala
Kill the part of you that believes it can’t survive without someone else. Start with the hands. The feeble way they shake holding your morning coffee, the way they did his dishes, his laundry, so willingly. How they itch from the want of undressing his memory. All lonely. All empty – you. Cut them off. […]
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Hortensia’s Speech by Farah Ghafoor
out of the cement the plaster come unholy diamonds. these slate men pointing fingers at priestesses goddesses hookers in silver. water pools from the salivating mouths of a thousand saviors with coal-like hands given by these loincloths of silk and pearl above caverns corroded by greed and divine intentions. Farah Ghafoor […]
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