Featherly
“…if there’s one thing Featherly taught me, it was that Eggs-Are-A-Bitch.” Story of the Week (May 5), by Dwight Hilson.
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The Way of Meat
“Every day—any day—any one of us could be picked out for any reason, and we would be… We’d part like hair, pushing into the walls of our containment area, then alternately cry, call, or sigh when the farmhand wrestled his pick off the floor.” By Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond.
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Shoots
“Sapling legs bend smoothly, power foot in place,/ her back, parallel to solid ground,/ makes her torso a table of support…” By Kadija Sesay.
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Unmasking Female Circumcision
“Though the origins of the practice are unknown, many medical historians believe that FGM dates back to at least 2,000 years.” Gimel Samera looks at the brutality of FGM.
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Talking Gender
“In fact it is often through the uninformed use of such words that language becomes a tool in perpetuating sexism and violence against women in society.” Sana Hussain on gender and language.
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