Contexts

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can conflict create good community?

This article was first published in the Spring 2022 issue of Contexts Magazine. That version contained errors upon publication. This was the fault of the … Read More

Women of Color’s Reproductive Perils Reproduced

An activist at a 2020 “Free Our Mamas” rally. (Joel Piette, Flickr cc) Last year, whistleblower Dawn Wooten decried … Read More

Between a Rock and a Hard Past

Photo taken on September 12, 2020. Not even two days after BLM protestors painted the rock, white supremacists painted … Read More

Queer Street Smarts

Photo by Delia Giandeini on Unsplash Street smarts. A term people use to describe the cultural knowledge that marginalized … Read More

Complexities of Menstruation in Kathmandu, Nepal

Photo by Erol Ahmed (Source: Unsplash). Thirteen-year-old me was excited to go to school! I had a new Mickey … Read More

Sex and Coronavirus

In March 2020, a joke made the rounds on the Interweb as more and more U.S. workplaces, schools, and other social institutions asked people to … Read More

Polluted Bodies

Domestic employment requires a unique physical proximity of bodies from different social classes, and often from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. People who might … Read More

Gaming on Romance

June goes into detail about how Mordin broke her heart. She reminisces about the surprise and shock that she felt when he told her that … Read More

Afrofuturism and Black Panther

Myron T. Strong and K. Sean Chaplin on the liberatory potential of Afrofuturism. Read More

Flat Rebels

In recent years, dozens of breastless women have appeared, topless and proud in major publications, including People, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, CNN, Glamour Magazine, … Read More