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Personal is Political: On Institutional Abuse in Psychiatric Facilities (Part II)
I made a commitment then and there to do everything within my power to make mental healthcare a safe and affirming space for all the...
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Editorial: Michael Brown and Anti-Black Violence
A young black man was killed this weekend. He was shot multiple times by police while walking to his grandmother’s house. He was left to...
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Trans Women of Color Speaking Truth to Power
A Conversation with Activists Katrina Goodlett and Nala Simone Toussaint Trans women of color are...
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In Conversation: On Race and Racism, Progression and Stagnation
By Timothy Patrick McCarthy and Darnell L. Moore This is a second conversation in a dialogue series initially published here at The Feminist Wire. Timothy Patrick...
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Feminists We Love: Wagatwe Wanjuki
Wagatwe Wanjuki is a feminist activist working and living in the New York City area. She uses new media tools to advance social justice. You can...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Dominos Fall Quickly
By Emily Barasch The dominos fall quickly in the way that I choose And I have to act...
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Op-Ed: Why We Need Critical Ethnic Studies in Arizona (and Everywhere Else)
By Michelle Téllez I find it imperative to call attention to the disconnect between Ethnic Studies as a discipline and the communities from which it...
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Elementary Feminisms: Anthem for a New Breed
By Victoria Schulte The word “feminist” is loaded and can carry bad connotations. The word “feminist,” often generates two types of thoughts; (1) social, economic, and...
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Excerpts from Damnation by Janice Lee
CONFESSION Sometimes one willingly enters a dark and empty space, the creaking of the loose boards below, the phantom moonlight above. · I had a...
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Getting on Up: The Cult of the Charismatic Black Man
Charismatic black men slapping black women around are funny. This was the takeaway conveyed by some audience members at a screening I attended of the...
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On Feeling Depleted: Naming, Confronting, and Surviving Oppression in the Academy
By Nicole Nguyen and R. Tina Catania “There is a politics to exhaustion. Feeling depleted can be a measure of just what we are up...
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Personal is Political: On Institutional Abuse in Psychiatric Facilities (Part I)
I told the nurses politely that I wished to leave, knowing this wasn’t the best environment for my health. This statement alone made me an...
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Touching Base with Tayari Jones: An Interview on Black Female Writers and Readers
By Eve Dunbar Tayari Jones attended a brunch in Brooklyn to which I was also invited a few weeks ago. Seven-deep in the a living...
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Who would we be if we did not speak? A letter for Yara
“A dream will make us fight to see it come true. An expectation will lead to passivity and probably to disappointment.” ~ Mu Sochua On...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Surrogate Feminism
By Rebecca Heilweil She has my eyes. They’re a cool dark-blue, shaped by chubby almond lids and framed by cornstalk blonde hair. They’re our eyes....
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Op-Ed: Why Buzzfeed’s Birth Control Activism Is Appreciated but Misguided
By Kari O’Driscoll On July 16, Buzzfeed asked their female employees to answer the question, “Why do you take birth control pills?” Twenty-two of them...
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Poem Suite: Silencing
Elie Wiesel writes, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps...
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Personal is Political: My Vagina (Part II)
This isn’t my way of confessing that I’d rather have a vagina, or that I’ve ever seriously thought about it. It’s just my way of...
