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In Audre’s Footsteps: Feel the Love

First and foremost, thank you sincerely to Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil, Judy Lynne Fisher (Fall 2017 #FemGeniusesinBerlin and 2022 Course Associate), Aishah Shahidah Simmons (2015 #FemGeniusesinBerlin Course Associate), Dr. Rosemarie Peña, and Elisa Diallo for their beautiful, powerful blurbs of the book! Your support and encouragement has meant everything! My amazing students sent me the […]

BANG!

  “BANG! is a magazine created by and for femme and female-identifying individuals of college age, dedicated to providing a wide range of information about sex and sexuality. Among other things, BANG! seeks to sexually eduate, raise awareness about sexuality and consensual sex, and showcase the related work of feminist educators and activists, with the […]

#FemSTEMSymposium

The #FemSTEMSymposium is a collaboration between me and Dr. Andrea Bruder (Associate Dean of the Faculty and Associate Professor of Math and Computer Science at Colorado College) designed to illustrate how the interdisciplinary study of power and inequity necessitates pedagogical and scholarly collaboration among intellectuals in myriad fields within and outside of the academy, not […]

White Roses, White Women: Kesha, #timesup, and Critical Race Feminism

By Nan Elpers At the 2018 Grammy Awards ceremony last week, American singer-songwriter Kesha honored the #timesup Twitter campaign against sexual assault in the popular music and TV industries, performing her standard “Praying.” The song debuted in July of 2017, commemorating Kesha’s years-long legal battle against Sony producer Dr. Luke who allegedly sexually abused her […]