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“Black Spaghetti;” or, “Spaghetti al Nero di Seppia”
By John Murillo B—- gasps into a waking death as the sun plagues the room with good-morning shade. Wordlessly, black flesh creaks upward, bending at...
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The Precarity of Latino/a Child-Citizen Subjects: From Dora the Explorer to Child Deportees
What is a child-citizen subject? Put simply, it encompasses children’s right to exist, grow, and live in a country while being seen as a secondary...
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Introducing: Theresa Runstedtler
Theresa Runstedtler is Assistant Professor of American Studies in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and was recently a Mellon...
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Dutch Abortion Ship Heads for Morocco
Moroccan police Thursday escorted from its waters a small yacht carrying women’s rights activists claiming to be able to perform abortions on board, after anti-abortion...
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Using Ketamine for Depression
In any given year, 7% of adults suffer from major depression, and at least 1 in 10 youth will reckon with the disorder at some point...
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Andrea Plaid, Associate Editor of Racialicious: The TFW Interview
By Darnell L. Moore and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Racialicious is one of the hottest race and pop culture blog sites to emerge in the social media...
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In Praise of the Never Straight: Cheryl Clarke
In 1982, Black Lesbian Feminist Poet and Scholar Cheryl Clarke wrote a letter to her fellow Black Feminist Poet June Jordan: “No there is nothing...
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"Praying Away the Gay" Gets the Smackdown
By Sikivu Hutchinson By banning so-called gay teen conversion therapy with his approval of SB 1172, California Governor Jerry Brown smacked down the forces of...
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Changes to TFW's Submission Policy
The Feminist Wire is a collective. We are a group of people who all have day jobs and/or schooling, partners and families, activist work, and...
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Muslim women on pilgrimage from Nigeria detained in Saudi Arabia
More than 1,000 Muslim women from Nigeria on a religious pilgrimage to Mecca have been turned away or detained in Saudi Arabia over allegations they weren’t...
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World Contraception Day
Today, September 26th, is World Contraception Day. And here at TFW, we invite you to consider what contraception has meant and may still mean to...
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Walking the “Only” Road: Psychological Tight Spaces
By Shawn Ricks I have always been the child exposed to many different things, and these experiences have, in a way, saved my life. These...
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Introducing TFW Intern Maura Jennison-Obenshain
TFW is delighted to introduce our current intern, Maura Jennison-Obenshain, who will be working for us throughout the fall semester. Maura is a graduate student...
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Sophia Azeb Responds to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Examine the image above carefully. What do you see? No, it’s not a parody from The Onion. It’s actually the cover of this week’s edition...
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Introducing: Sophia Azeb
Sophia Azeb is an Egyptian-Palestinian anarcha-feminist teacher, writer, and organizer pursuing her PhD in American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Sophia’s...
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Introducing: Tanisha C. Ford
Tanisha C. Ford, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer, intellectual, and activist designing her own brand of “Haute Couture Intellectualism.” She is currently writing a book, Liberated Threads:...
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Are We Really That Different from Cicely Bolden?
By Kat Griffith Cicely Bolden was a young woman who was stabbed to death by her boyfriend because of her HIV status. After school, her...
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She Didn’t Deserve To Die
By Precious Jackson I’m saddened to hear about Cicely Bolden’s murder at the hand of her intimate partner when this did not need to happen....