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Central Park Saturday
Until I was about six years old, my father and I had a ritual of spending Saturday mornings in Central Park together. My mother was...
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Female Doctors Paid Less Than Male Counterparts, Study Finds
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...
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Ugandan Women Address Court Over Maternal Mortality
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...
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Three Poems
By Anisha Dutt You & Me Body, stamped, ornate and pure. My body, your body. Sealed. Beliefs erect dry rivers. Words spark fire, smoldering...
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"Most Affectionately Ever Yours": Slavery, Literacy and Black Women's Friendships
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...
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Florida's Stand Your Ground Defense More Likely To Succeed If Victim Is Black: Study
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...
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Transfeminism: Speaking My Truth to Power
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...
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Eating Disorders on the Rise Among Middle-Aged Women
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...
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TFW Culture Wednesday
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...
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To Be Brown
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...
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Diaspora (for a friend)
You inspire me in too many directions. I am laughing onto pillows, gurgling spit into screen. Visions mangled between eyes, quicktongued foreign gazes,...
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movement ii
Trace an out line of bodies in places other than center dis/lodged from we. use chalk: it...
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Badminton Shelves Rule Requiring Women Wear Skirts
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...
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Our American Future: A Disadvantaged Majority?
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...
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Growing Up Loving a Working Mother
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...
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Introducing (Young Voices Edition): Kiyan Williams
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...
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Introducing (Young Voices Edition): Mason Casper-Milam
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....
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Introducing (Young Voices Edition): Dylan McCann
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....