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Feminists We Love: Carol Anshaw
Born and raised in Chicago, I find myself perpetually drawn to writers who live and work there—and who make the city a character in their...
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Who’s Still a Slave? Contemporary Black Women’s Rhetoric, Art, and Global Realities
By Janell Hobson “Are you still a slave?” That was the title of a forum on May 6, 2014 at the New School, featuring black...
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Personal is Political: What’s in a Name?
"After months of contemplation, it struck me. Why not change this respected German name into its English equivalent? If Ellis Island did this to immigrants...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Women with Bad Aim
By Colleen Ladd A group of girls stand in line at the back of a large house with white French doors, the only thing that...
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A Tongue In My Mouth: Some Ecstasies of Daily Life
By Dia Felix Into our night, I curl like a snail. To the bottom of the silver bridge, a tiny snail sticks. In this heat...
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SNL’s Leslie Jones Offers Anachronistic Jokes on Slavery
By Sheila Bustillos-Reynolds Critics are chiming in about several distasteful slavery jokes made on Saturday Night Live’s May 3rd show. Leslie Jones, a writer at...
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Personal is Political: On Misconceived Toxicity, Malice and Failures
I really didn’t mean to participate in an act of solidarity with other women who had past and current relationships with the man who raped...
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Disentangling Radical Love from Narcissism
By Lisa (Leigh) Patel Sometimes when some folks approach me out of an assumed shared cultural identity, I get tight. Recently another South Asian woman...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the Double-Bind of Muslim Women’s Rights
By Rochelle Terman Last month, Brandeis University announced that it had reversed its decision to award Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary degree following grassroots organizing...
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TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons participated in Philly Rally to #BringBackOurGirls
On Saturday, May 3, 2014, documentary filmmaker and TFW Associate Editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons participated in the “Rock A Gele For Our Girls” Rally held in...
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The Cult of Motherhood: A Century of Mother’s Days
By Melissa Seelye As a child growing up in the United States, I perceived our national holidays as no more artificial than the days of...
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Mother’s Day: Love and Tears
The beginning of May signals the end of the school year, the start of spring, and of course Mother’s Day. As with most American holidays,...
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Expectations: Intimate Feminisms Embodied
By Erin Durban-Albrecht and Monica J. Casper Our intention in collating this Mothers Day montage for The Feminist Wire is to celebrate women’s contributions...
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Personal is Political: My Mother’s Mistake
Tracy Strauss on mother-daughter relationships, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and PTSD in honor of Mother's Day for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW.
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No One is Disposable: Dean Spade, Reina Gossett and CeCe McDonald Discuss Prison Abolition
By Roges Ahnet No One Is Disposable: Everyday Acts of Prison Abolition highlights the importance of utilizing a prison abolitionist framework to confront and dismantle...
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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis to Teach in Berlin
This summer, TFW Associate Editor Heidi R. Lewis will be teaching a course in Berlin on Afro-German Women, Feminism and Berlin.
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Rethinking Resilience in Violence Against Women Debates
By Emily Lindsay Jackson The article “Safe Passage,” written by Diane Hill of the Canadian Women’s Foundation, advocates young women develop “resilience” to overcome the...
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Two Poems by Maya Pindyck
By Maya Pindyck The Count His command: Hold out your hand. Grabs her palm, the shade of white asparagus. Shoves in it a...
