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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Why I Haven't Given Up on Hip-Hop
By Amber Jones When did you first fall in love with hip-hop? This question frames one of my favorite films, Brown Sugar (2002). The film...
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TFW is going to Santo Domingo!!!
The Feminist Wire‘s proposal for our panel titled “Mediating Feminisms: A Roundtable Discussion by The Feminist Wire” has been accepted for inclusion in the 7th...
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Rage against the patriarchy, Dr. Nikita Levy, and the devaluation of black women
By j.n. salters I was compelled to complain because I feel that the vast majority of black folks who are subjected daily to forms of racial...
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Poems by Kristen Nelson
A selected catalog of my altar from left to right The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Perpetuating Patriarchy (And Other Liberal Arts-isms)
By Natalie Olivo The true tempo of my college’s student body occasionally emerges on a double-sided sheet of paper that circulates around campus five days a...
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TFW will be conducting a workshop at NWSA (November 7-10) titled "Mediating Feminisms"
The Feminist Wire‘s proposal for our session titled “Mediating Feminisms: A Workshop By The Feminist Wire” has been accepted for inclusion in the National Women’s...
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Find the Good in Women Who Aren't Margaret Thatcher
By Ren Jender “She must have been miserable,” one of my Facebook “friends” wrote as a kind of eulogy for Margaret Thatcher. I had to...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Millennial Feminists, Stand Up!
By Ashley Yenick Many college-aged women have a skewed view of feminism and how it might apply to them. Millennial feminism was brought to my...
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On Guns, Fetuses, and “Pro-Life” Hypocrisy
Last week, while grieving parents of the children killed in Newtown were tearfully urging gun control measures, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tex.) boldly launched—to well deserved...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pre-Launch Video: Asking for Kale *trigger warning, discusses rape* (by students at Tufts University)
For more information, please visit: Tufts Action for Sexual Assault Prevention: http://tuftsasap.org/ Boston Area Rape Crisis Center: http://www.barcc.org/ Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network: http://www.rainn.org/
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pre-Launch Video: Representations of Black women in Media (students at Royal Holloway)
ACS committee interviewed students about the representation of black women in the media as part of their joint event with the Feminism Society at Royal...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pre-Launch Video: Representations of Gender in Advertising (by students at the University of Saskatchewan)
This video was a school project created for a Women and Gender Studies class at the University of Saskatchewan by Sarah, Kayla and Dylan. Their...
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Op-Ed: Egg Freezing: WTF?*
By Lynn M. Morgan and Janelle S. Taylor Marcia Inhorn’s recent CNN commentary, “Women, consider freezing your eggs” is certainly right about one thing: “Trying...
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First To Die: Evil Dead and Blackness in Horror
By Joshua Alston The victor in this weekend’s box-office battle was Evil Dead, the remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult-classic horror film, which roared into...
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Meditations of a Deviant Daughter
By Tanwi Nandini Islam When something happened. An allusion to something ominous from the distant past. I documented my rape thoroughly in my creative work,...
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Feminists We Love: Liora K
Liora K is an Arizona photographer who produces art not only for work and pleasure, but also for Feminism. When I first discovered Liora’s provocative...
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Aishah Shahidah Simmons will be screening and discussing NO! The Rape Documentary at Claremont Graduate University (4/17) and Occidental College (4/18)
For more information on NO! The Rape Documentary, please visit here and here. The events below are free and open to the public. However, the organizers request...
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Radical Birthwork as an Act of Resistance
By Ynanna Djehuty I like to open with definitions. The usage of words and knowing the weight they hold is important to all discourse, regardless...