24 May 2013
Kristen E. Nelson is the author of Write, Dad (Unthinkable Creatures Press, 2012). She has recently published work in The Volta, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky Journal, Trickhouse, and Everyday Genius, among others. She is a founder and the Executive Director of Casa Libre en la Solana, a non-profit writing center in Tucson, Arizona; a production editor for Tarpaulin [...]
22 May 2013
By Elizabeth Dorssom I first started referring to myself as a feminist when I was 17. Even though I didn’t identify as a feminist until I was older I was definitely a feminist from a very young age. When I was in elementary school I enjoyed playing with Hot Wheels cars instead [...]
20 May 2013
By Molly Baker On April 23, University of Arizona student Dean Saxton, better known as Brother Dean, stood on a bench brandishing a sign that bluntly stated in bold, black letters “You Deserve Rape.” Saxton proceeded to verbally harass many women that walked by on their way to class, calling them [...]
15 May 2013
By Mohadesa Najumi When I think about what modesty means in today’s political, cultural and religious environment, I am inclined to believe that the concept itself does not involve choice, or any dimension of freedom or independent thought. Rather, modesty constitutes a dictatorial concept forced upon women whether they agree [...]
7 May 2013
*Trigger warning* Sometimes I feel like the NRA is actively just trying to lose all the credibility it has left in this world. Just when you thought the NRA’s annual convention in Houston this weekend couldn’t draw any more negative attention, it goes out and casually promotes a company selling a product [...]
29 Mar 2013
By Monica Torres When I sign my name, it’s Monica, not Mónica. When I order pupusas at my favorite restaurant, the waiter will give my accent an approving nod, as if to say, you’re one of us. But it will only take a harder question for me to reveal the [...]
18 Mar 2013
By Alexa Lambertis At an early age, I was exposed to a woman who essentially changed my life. A sweet lady with a southern background, she was introduced to me as a family friend. I met her in her own home, where we would spend a majority of our time [...]
The Feminist Wire is happy to present a series on “Occupy Wall Street,” as it moves from its origin to 145 other cities throughout the United States and while the New York City protesters fight to keep their right to protest. Furthermore, on the heels of the “riots” in England, the “Occupy Wall Street” model in Italy turned violent on Saturday, October 16. Regardlless of the accusations that this protest or emerging movement...
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By Zillah Eisenstein and Chandra Talpade Mohanty “Occupy Wall Street” is an incredible movement even if there is no easily ready-made pre-existing political language to describe it. Its newness—multiple concerns across the wide-swath of “99 percent of us” that may seem unfocused—is really not. Instead we see decades of lead up work done by the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panthers, the 1970’s women’s movement, all forms of anti-racist...
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By Sonalini Kaur Sapra Wangari Maathai has been an inspiration to many for her unflagging passion and commitment to women’s rights and environmental justice. She was responsible for founding one of the most prominent transnational environmental groups in the world today – the Green Belt Movement (GBM). The organization was founded in 1977 and provides financial incentives for women to plant and nurture native species of trees. Since it...
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Whale Know, first, that she does not remain behind the baleen forever. Know, too, that the whale is unaware of the woman drowning on its tongue. And knowing this, recall the keening, the slow build of sound in the body; that we were afraid and pressed our fear low in our breast, held it alongside our breath; that the tenor of our grief matched, so nearly, the tenor of...
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They were carefree and besotted, joined at the hip, the epitome of a young couple steeped in the insular world of teen obsession. To some, 17 year-old Cindi Santana, and 18 year-old Abraham Lopez, the estranged boyfriend who beat and murdered her on the campus of South East High school in Los Angeles last week, were a perfect match. To others, Lopez was jealous and possessive, having been arrested...
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The days are growing shorter, the new school year has started, and Halloween products have begun appearing on store shelves. Summer is well and truly over. And what a summer it was: the News of the World affair, a devastating terrorist attack in Norway, the culmination (though not conclusion) of the rebellion in Libya, the secession of Southern Sudan, mind numbingly childish debt ceiling negotiations in the United States,...
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Red Clay Blues I call on my baby, say save some honey for me. ‘Cause everyday and I need some honey, —–and you best save some for me. There’s a sweetness I been missin’ in my coffee and my tea. My heart won’t wear her red dress, ‘cept the clay beneath your feet. Said you’d treat me like a princess, took those shoes right off my feet. Then you...
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For ten days people have been on Wall Street as part of the “Occupy Wall Street” protest and major U.S. media outlets have been nearly silent. Although we are updated on regime-change protests around the world, American protests against greed, corruption and the bailout of big business has received very little attention. CNN, like most media, is dominated by the start of the trial against Dr. Conrad Murray (charged...
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By Lisa Jean Moore and Monica J. Casper Semen. Vas deferens. Penis. Scrotum. Glans. Ejaculation. Testes. Prostate gland. Epididymis. Seminal vesicles. Pubic hair. Erectile function. Falling asleep after. Dicks and cocks. Jism, seed, and cum. Phallic. Okay, now that you’re paying attention, we’re here to tell you about male reproduction and sexuality. Well, maybe not all about it, as we’re only partial experts on the subject; for example, we’ve got...
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A SUPERWOMAN CHOOSES ANOTHER WAY TO FLY woke up again parched from a dream / full of old water, the only urgent tide / in me lately. eddies of sweat, / promise perishing in each exhale. / i matter too why didn’t i believe i matter / more than an unblinking, shadowed eye / that refused to look at me with love? perched on the edge of a day...
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TFW welcomes Sikivu Hutchinson to our Editorial Collective. Sikivu Hutchinson is a senior intergroup specialist for the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission. She received a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University and has taught women’s studies, cultural studies, urban studies, and education at UCLA, the California Institute of the Arts, and Western Washington University. She is the author ofImagining Transit: Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles, Moral Combat:...
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TFW welcomes Mecca Jamilah Sullivan to our Editorial Collective. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is from Harlem, New York. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming internationally in publications including Callaloo, American Fiction, Best New Writing, Crab Orchard Review, Bloom, Lumina, Amistad, The Minnesota Review, 2010 Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize Stories, Baobab: South African Journal of New Writing, American Visions and GLQ. She is the winner of the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the William Gunn Fiction...
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By Ashon Crawley But when brought them near to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.” She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me; for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do anything so vile! As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of...
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22 May 2013
By Aditi Rao Dear Mr. Yadav, I too am an Indian Woman “Referring to the recent ‘Slut Walk’ held in the Capital, Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav said we had naked women walking down the streets with tattoos on their cheeks, whereas Indian women did not even look up while [...]
17 May 2013
Assata do not dry like dissipated plums under castro’s bronzing sun you mural fortress you live memorial spirited artifice rouged sea salt that marinates america’s wound Assata you like stripped bone road unaware of which exit is free birth brown coagulated rhythm redefined reborn rumba queen Assata dusk breath [...]
16 May 2013
“Affirmation” by Assata Shakur* ___ I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine. In windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs. And i believe that seeds grow into sprouts. And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in the magic [...]
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