Lead author Dr. Reshma Jagsi, a breast cancer radiation specialist and researcher at the University of Michigan, publicly released findings of a study about pay differences...
More than 100 women die during childbirth each week in Uganda, a heartbreaking statistic that has energized activists to go to the Supreme Court in...
By Anisha Dutt You & Me Body, stamped, ornate and pure. My body, your body. Sealed. Beliefs erect dry rivers. Words spark fire, smoldering...
By Tara Bynum and Alexis Pauline Gumbs From at least 1772 to 1779 Phillis Wheatley, the “first” published African American poet wrote letters to another...
A newspaper report has found that the Stand Your Ground self-defense statute in Florida is more likely to succeed when the victim is black. The Tampa...
By Pauline Park Is there a ‘trans feminism’? And if so, what is it? Given that feminism itself is such a charged subject and transgender...
Increasing numbers of middle-aged women are getting treatment for eating disorders, according to psychologist Dr. Gregory Jantz, internationally known eating disorder specialist, author and founder...
TFW Editorial Collective members Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Bushra Rehman, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Darnell L. Moore present Culture Wednesday: Feminisms In Poetic Voice. Check them...
for (fellow Feminist Wire collaborator) Darnell Moore After Audre Lorde’s “Thaw” we season language into sweet potatoes deep heavy whole with so many rooted...
You inspire me in too many directions. I am laughing onto pillows, gurgling spit into screen. Visions mangled between eyes, quicktongued foreign gazes,...
Trace an out line of bodies in places other than center dis/lodged from we. use chalk: it...
When the Badminton World Federation (BWF) was looking to raise its profile and glamorize its image last year, it wrote into the official rulebook that...
By Bryan M-C Epps This year’s presidential election is set to be the most important one for all those who plan to be part of...
By Sydney When I tell people that my mother was a stripper, professional dominatrix, and at one point owned an escort service, I usually get...
Kiyan Williams is a Newark-bred scholar and activist. He is currently an undergraduate at Stanford University, where he majors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity...
Mason Casper-Milam is ten years old. She enjoys reading, writing, art, and nature. She has a pet fish named Aqua, who she sometimes forgets to feed....
Dylan McCann is a recent high school graduate and will attend Warren Wilson College in the fall of 2012 to pursue a degree in Creative Writing....