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Personal is Political: Can the Subaltern Catcall?
If we wish to sincerely practice intersectionality in our feminism, then we must look with eyes unclouded by idolization at the white feminists of the...
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CFP: A Forum on “Climate Change and Feminist Environmentalisms”
By Cristina Awadalla, Piper Coutinho-Sledge, Alison Criscitiello, and Sonalini Sapra As guest editors of this forum, we created the theme with the intent to create a...
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Black on Purpose: Race, Inheritance and Queer Reproduction
By Savannah Shange On the morning of my insemination, I stood chilly in a paper exam gown rechecking the sperm donor number on the side...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Coffee
By Shelby Simonsen My boyfriend never liked coffee. The rich, bitter, earthy flavor didn’t jive with his tongue....
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Poem Suite: Monsters
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Are You Willing to Put “5” on TFW?
The Feminist Wire just hit 50! We are so excited that more than 50,000 people have liked our Facebook page, which means thousands of readers have access to...
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Personal is Political: The Myth of Diversity and Critical Thinking in American Academia
American ideals about meritocracy and “pulling yourself up by your boot straps” are myths. They simply do not exist. Education in a capitalist system is...
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A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement by Alicia Garza
By Alicia Garza I created #BlackLivesMatter with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of my sisters, as a call to action for Black people after...
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“Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!”: Gesture, Choreography, and Protest in Ferguson
The bodily act of the hands up don’t shoot protests takes those same bodies that are surveilled, disciplined, controlled, and killed and infuses them with...
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TFW’s Mecca Jamilah Sullivan reads at All About Skin celebration of women writers of color
Saturday, October 25th, 2014 5:00-7:30pm at La Casa Azul Bookstore 143 E 103rd St, New York, NY 10029 ...
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#FergusonFridays: Not all of the Black freedom fighters are men: An Interview with Black Women on the Front line in Ferguson
By Kristin Braswell As we marched from West Florissant to the Ferguson Police Department on that sweltering day in August, a bevy of voices carried...
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How Many Black Histories We Still Don’t Know: An Interview With Simone Leigh
I am walking north on Buffalo Avenue from Crown Heights toward Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, passing corner stores and apartment complexes, looking for the Weeksville Heritage...
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On Ferguson, the Fragility of Black Boys, and Feminist Futures
By Aliyyah. I. Abdur-Rahman Recently over dinner, my dear friend Sandy Alexandre, Associate Professor of Literature at MIT, and I were talking about both Michael...
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Op-Ed: The Invisible People: Mohammed Sunuqrut’s Unreported Death
By Yehuda Sharim In Israel and Gaza, as in Ferguson, Missouri, officials may declare an armistice, and attempt to remove citizens from the streets, but the...
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Poem Suite: Becoming
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Personal is Political: Memories of My Grandmother
I hope I can live through life's ups and downs like she did, by deeply adoring the happy moments and enduring the bitter ones with...
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“No Climate Justice Without Gender Justice:” Women at the Forefront of the People’s Climate March
By Julie Gorecki “No climate justice without gender justice!” This was the banner slogan at the forefront of the women’s contingency that gathered for the...
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#FergusonFridays: White Anti-Racism, Social Media, and the Problem of Self-Serving Allying
Since Michael Brown’s murder, the Internet has been abuzz with content focusing on what white people could and should do to counter racism. Others have...
