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Breaking News: Osama Bin Laden is Dead
The man known as Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda, is dead. Last night President Obama confirmed that Bin Laden was shot to death...
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Rock Struck: Obama and the Hard Place of Paper
After noise and nonsense from the political right, the President of the United States, had to show his papers. The fact of a black man...
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A New Branch of the United States’ Miscegenated Family Tree: Lynn Nottage’s "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark"
By Soyica Colbert Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark opened at the Second Stage Theatre on April 6,...
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WISCONSIN: Why It Matters
By Joy Schulman I arrived in Madison in September 1969 to begin my junior year at the University of Wisconsin. Moving from Newark, New Jersey,...
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A Message from the Editors
The Feminist Wire appreciates and respects the many voices that contributed to last week’s events. We are particularly pleased with the expeditious, cross-gendered, cross-generational, and...
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Featured Poet: Donika Ross
The Yard On the grounds between history and science, Nelida and I walk, two slips of girls, lovely analogies of each other. See our books,...
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Between Love and Duty
By Rachel Broadwater On March 10, 2011 activist Quannell X spearheaded a rally in connection to the brutal gang rape of an 11-year-old Latina girl...
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“Love that Girl” but Hate “those” Boys?
By Ulli K. Ryder “Love that Girl” is a new show on TVOne, starring Tatyana Ali who is best known for her role as Ashley...
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An Endorsement Against Church Bigotry and The Injustice of ¶ 304.3
What better time to stand in solidarity with those called to religious institutions, yet marginalized due to structural bigotry, than what is interpreted by many...
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Artist Spotlight: Larissa Mogano, Photographer
Photography by Larissa Mogano “Morning Mist on Eucalyptus” c. 2009, taken in San Diego, CA (location undisclosed), with Canon digital EOS Rebel XTi “Checkered Past”...
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Shayne Lee, Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between These Thighs: An Open Letter
Since writing my review of Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, entitled “Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes,” originally written for Palimpsest: A...
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Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes
Reprinted from Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, with SUNY Press. Update: Final copy now available in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender...
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Faux Feminist Men and Other Figments (Real and Imagined)
Last spring, I offered a “Feminist Theory” course, and a startling thing happened. More men signed up for the class than women. When I saw...
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On a Blues Woman’s Birthday
Today is singer Bessie Smith’s 117th birthday. While the particular milestone is not the most significant, the woman it relates to is. “The Empress of...
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Reproductive Tourism
A recent article in the New York Times describes the discovery of birth houses in San Gabriel, California, where “relatively wealthy” Chinese women were stealthily...
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Featured Poet: Destiny O. Birdsong
Prenuptial Agreement Everyone’s angry at me—even your mother, And no one understands why it’s necessary If we’re going to stand before God and say forever—...
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Speaking Truth to Power: “You Are What You Eat”
By Ashante Reese The buzz surrounding the name of the recently-opened Fat Ho Burgers in Waco has spread beyond the small town in central Texas. ...
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Women in (Post) Revolutionary Egypt
By Ebony E.A. Coletu The post-revolutionary society contains a warning in its name. Is the laborious work of political reconstruction part of the revolution or...