Feminist to Know: Mia Mingus

Mia Mingus is an educator, organizer, and writer, focusing on disability justice and transformative justice… and our June 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Anti-Racist Reading List

Self-educate now!

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UterishJune 3, 2020

Feminist to Know: Minneapolis Protesters

The people protesting in Minneapolis are engaging in the deeply feminist act of struggling against systems of domination. So, we are highlighting their activism in our May 2020 Feminist to Know corner of The Provocateur.

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AHQ: Is Cancel Culture Cancelled?

Greta answers a question about cancel culture.

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The Personal is Political…and Intergalactic

Guest Shiv and Alex discuss failed masculinities and the non-human in Star Wars. Alternatively titled: “Jar Jar Twink,” “Stop Kink-Shaming the Sith,” or “Daddy Dark Side.”

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Feminist to Know: Tourmaline

Tourmaline is a filmmaker, artist, trans studies scholar, educator, and organizer… and our April 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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The Two Femmes Queering the Straightest Show Around

Greta and Alex talk with Bachelor Gaytion.

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Feminist to Know: Rebecca Gomperts

Rebecca Gomperts is a doctor and artist whose career is centered around providing abortion services and reproductive healthcare education to those with limited or no access… and our March 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Gender Play: My Identity Formation Through Sports

“As a high school club soccer player, I would enter into a lifestyle full of convoluted social education about what gender, sex, gender roles, and sexual identity all meant.”

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Making Choices About the Stories That We See: Kara Walker's Imprint on American Art

“The moment that I try to make sense out of this composition, I become responsible for what I see; there is so much in front of me that everything I name is a choice, even without me realizing.”

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Feminist to Know: Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is one of the most influential Black scholars alive today, who has made pivotal interventions in the historicization of U.S. enslavement… and our February 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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"Bad Blood": The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

“Tuskegee tells us how the Black body figures into medical discourse and medical knowledge, specifically as it props up globalized narratives of American exceptionalism and materially benefits white health.” (Thumbnail image: The New York Times)

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AHQ: I Have a Bump on My Lip and I'm Scared

Greta answers a question about herpes.

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Feminist to Know: Zitkála-Šá

Zitkála-Šá (aka Red Bird) was a prominent Dakota/Yankton Sioux writer, activist, editor, teacher, and musician in the late 19th and early 20th century… and our January 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.

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Heroes: Ana Mendieta

“Most of Mendieta’s work strikes the viewer as surreal, magical, jarring, out of place. Mendieta creates new worlds in her images rather than attempting to approximate or reflect worlds that already exist.”

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