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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Silence of Burning
By Grace Kuell * “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* I’ve written poems about Silence before...
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Black Girls and the Police State Menace
Whenever there’s a black girl on a school campus wielding a dangerous weapon like a cell phone, white macho can always be counted on to...
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3 poems by Margaret Rhee
tenderness after Stephen Dunn Back then, when everything seemed so sure I was twenty-five, and she was thirty-five, she found me in the...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Taking What’s Mine
By Alex-Quan Pham * “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* My childhood was spent speaking tiếng...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, What I Should Have Said Then
By Emily Rooney * “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* Dear Mr. Nathan Cooley, I’m sure...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, An Introduction to the “Collective Voice of the Voiceless” Forum on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival
By Mick Powell and Heather M. Turcotte, Associate Editors “The collective voice of the voiceless is still one of the most powerful tools of...
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Forearm-Ankle Skin Visibility: The Measure of Muslim Women’s Relationships
By Hina Tai I was standing near the entrance of the bus station, waiting for my parents to pick me up. The next day was Eid...
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Self-Determination and the Struggle to End Violence Against Women Living with HIV
By Keiko Lane, MFT I don’t think we had slept together yet when he told me about the pills. He was, well, not exactly hoarding...
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You Want the Power But Not the Pain: Some Notes for White Women Who Love Cookie
By Desiree Adaway I am a woman that makes her living helping individuals, communities, and organizations have difficult conversations, specifically the most important conversation to...
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Stronger Than You Know
By J.B. My rapist didn’t look like a monster. He was a six-foot, brown-haired, 25-year-old working at a startup, with dark eyes, a trace of stubble,...
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2 poems by Kevin Simmonds
Laveau descended from wax & twine my dolls are certain red pepper skeleton key low voice in the water I bring boils...
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Tenderness
By Laurelin I was 22 when I had my abortion. The images that fill my head of that day remain White sheets Tools laid out...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS: Rainbow Fire: Equality of Marriage
By Hannah Seelman Rainbows everywhere. Yet, all that I know is our love. For so long it has been denied. Angry shadows of...
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Trans Feminine Humility
By Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Even though I was assigned male at birth and raised in a home with a strict emphasis on gender roles, I, as...
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Saying It Loudly: I Had an Abortion at Planned Parenthood
By Joanna Christi I’m saying this loudly. I’m saying this loudly because it needs to be said. When I was in college, I was raped....
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3 poems by Vanessa Angelica Villarreal
Silvia my story begins in water—— casita in a dark between seas a palace of ribs you begun in me imagined as...
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New #EmergingFeminisms Team @ #TheFeministWire
TFW is growing, re-visioning, and re-imagining! We’ve got a lot on the horizon. Notably, under the leadership of Associate Editor Heather Turcotte, we’ve developed and...
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Finding My Voice: A Reflection On My Abortion(s)
By Jasmine Alvarez 1. careless/irresponsible/trash adjectives that some (most) might use to describe a woman who CHOSE abortion not once/not twice three times. Typical HOODRAT...
