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Remembering Adrienne Rich: “Poetry was a feminist practice”

By Syreeta | Published: March 29, 2013

Tweet Ed. note: We regret publishing this piece without acknowledging or critiquing Rich’s history of transphobia and in particular her support for Janice G. Raymond, author of the discriminatory and hateful “The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male.” To be clear: By failing to acknowledge the late author’s views on womanhood, feminists risk writing [...]

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Notes from a bitch…remembering the women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

By Sharkfu | Published: March 7, 2011

TweetMarch is Women’s History Month and I think it fitting, given the current labor struggles going on across the United States, to remember the Triangle Factory fire. I first heard about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in a women’s history class I took my first year in college. My professor was discussing the intersection of [...]

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