Volume 7 • Issue 1 • May 2010

Ocean View

Ocean View, Geri McCritty Hoff

The Women's Issue

Our Guest Editor for the Women’s Issue, Korto Williams, is a feminist poet engaged in gender development work in Liberia to transform the lives of women and girls toward gaining autonomy and agency. Korto exhibits change-making by being vocal on women's rights issues and writing about situations that affect the wellbeing of females from a feminist perspective.

Complications

Complications, Geri McCritty Hoff

The Women's Issue

Our Guest Editor for the Women’s Issue, Korto Williams, is a feminist poet engaged in gender development work in Liberia to transform the lives of women and girls toward gaining autonomy and agency. Korto exhibits change-making by being vocal on women's rights issues and writing about situations that affect the wellbeing of females from a feminist perspective.

Home

Home, Geri McCritty Hoff

The Women's Issue

Our Guest Editor for the Women’s Issue, Korto Williams, is a feminist poet engaged in gender development work in Liberia to transform the lives of women and girls toward gaining autonomy and agency. Korto exhibits change-making by being vocal on women's rights issues and writing about situations that affect the wellbeing of females from a feminist perspective.

The Mask

The Mask, Geri McCritty Hoff

The Women's Issue

Our Guest Editor for the Women’s Issue, Korto Williams, is a feminist poet engaged in gender development work in Liberia to transform the lives of women and girls toward gaining autonomy and agency. Korto exhibits change-making by being vocal on women's rights issues and writing about situations that affect the wellbeing of females from a feminist perspective.

Movement

Movement, Geri McCritty Hoff

The Women's Issue

Our Guest Editor for the Women’s Issue, Korto Williams, is a feminist poet engaged in gender development work in Liberia to transform the lives of women and girls toward gaining autonomy and agency. Korto exhibits change-making by being vocal on women's rights issues and writing about situations that affect the wellbeing of females from a feminist perspective.

Same Blood

Same Blood, Geri McCritty Hoff

The Women's Issue

Our Guest Editor for the Women’s Issue, Korto Williams, is a feminist poet engaged in gender development work in Liberia to transform the lives of women and girls toward gaining autonomy and agency. Korto exhibits change-making by being vocal on women's rights issues and writing about situations that affect the wellbeing of females from a feminist perspective.

Word from the Editor

alt text Korto Williams

We are the Ones! Creative Agency and Activism for Women’s Rights in Liberia!

Creative Non-Fiction

alt text Wayétu Moore

Hold Your Ear: The Panang-nang Song

alt text Robtel Neajai Pailey

Coup Babies

alt text Ray Martin Toe

Nyono Sio Nyenbeju (“She Who Is Greater Than Men”): Hiah Zeay Karmbor Juah of Filorken

Essays

alt text Sunit Bagree

Confronting Rape Apologists

alt text Veronica P. Fynn

Stigmatization and Sexual & Gender-Based Violence

alt text Eva Mappy Morgan

Liberia’s Justice System: The Problem of Legal Pluralism

alt text Ezekiel Pajibo

This Is Our Liberia and Our Attitude Toward Women

alt text Aaron Weah

Women and Transitional Justice in Liberia

Fiction

alt text Stephanie Horton

The Abortion (1975)

alt text Lorraine E. Mason

Only a Quarter

alt text Saah Millimono

Street Sweepers

alt text Wilton Sankawulo

Leanya – Excerpted from the novel, Birds Are Singing, to be published posthumously 2010

alt text Korto Williams

The Green of Her Soul

Interviews

alt text Saycon Sengbloh

Actress, Music Producer, Lyricist: She Who Bedazzles Us in the New World With Her Art

Poetry

alt text Alfreda Amah-Clarke

I am lined /with color. the seat of my hand /a mother’s cradle /a wife / notes her place.

alt text Charlina Daitouah-Smith

My man took up with a young thing, / iron tay-tay, Lorma butt, /waist like a snake

alt text Ruby Harmon

At 8 / The knife carves deeply / As drums sound out the piercing /Cry

alt text Miatta Kawinzi

Are you a trespasser bordercrosser do you have documentation

alt text Althea Romeo Mark

She could not / get enough to eat/ yet she kept on / having babies / and they kept on dying

alt text Nuah Padmore

Your hair like full grain corn plaited in exquisite design / Is tied around my neck

alt text Joyetta Senyennoh Satiah

Women from all over the Kru Coast / Ritually pass snuff and bottles of / Gin, Cane Juice

alt text Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

and let me sing for the babies that have been / dashed along the roadside for dead.