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A Message from the Founder: Write. Fight. GIVE.
Dear Friends of The Feminist Wire, I co-founded TFW with Hortense Spillers in 2011 while still a graduate student. My vision was to create an...
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#Feministcare: TFW on winter break December 2016
Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. Though we need each other now more than ever, TFW needs a break. This radical feminist, anti-racist,...
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Staying on the Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement on the Election
The Feminist Wire is fundamentally committed to intersectional truth-telling. We are uncompromising in this, and we will name the damage. We are not the mainstream...
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DAPL and the Matter/ing of Black Life
By M. Shadee Malaklou Two days after President Obama pardoned the White House turkey and one day after Americans sat down at tables across the...
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“Imperatives for Carrying on in the Aftermath ” by Natasha Trethewey
Imperatives for Carrying on in the Aftermath by Natasha Trethewey Do not hang your head or clench your fists when even your friend, after hearing...
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Beyond Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire: Reclaiming Images of Black Women
Who will sing a Black girl’s song? During the spring 2015 semester, a group of students at Colorado College, where I am Associate Director and...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, the weird poet’s ramblings
By Sumayyah Malik “A tribute to weirdom” i’m going to spread the primrose smell off myself, and will sprout today, like Jack’s beanstalk...
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3 poems by Nikki Wallschlaeger
Mother’s Day Hangover 2016 I have 3 days of prime emotional anethesization to work through before I get on this creaky jetplane to New York,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, First World Problems: How Language Reproduces the Colonial Narrative of Superiority
By Chichi Okonkwo The 21st century has seen continued “cloud” popularization and, with it, memes. The commonality of memes and our propensity to reduce sentences...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Why I Read the Comments
By Amelia Roskin-Frazee **Content Warning: sexual violence, hate speech** We’ve all had at least one friend tell us, “Don’t read the comments.” The...
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Visual Art: Handle With Care
By Rora Blue My dad first introduced me to feminism when I was a teenager. He bought me the book Full Frontal Feminism. Since...
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We Can’t Let After Tiller Slide
By Viki Peer I was so excited to attend a university-wide screening of After Tiller, the 2013 Emmy-winning documentary about the four remaining doctors who...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Volunteering Abroad: Harmful or Helpful?
By Manon Arundhati Fabre While considering my options for the upcoming 2016 summer, I took a particular interest in searching for volunteering opportunities in Sao...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When Being Sex Positive Isn’t Enough
By Chloe Sariego Since binaries are so early 2000s, I’m increasingly less interested in “pro” and “anti” porn debates. I’ve been a pro-porn feminist for...
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My Disability is a Joke
By Caddie Alford What if your disability were just a punchline? Online at The New York Times Opinion, they’re thinking about disability. Funny how quickly...
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Poem: ““you realize adults know nothing about girls when they ask you extra dumb questions”
By Jacklyn Janeksela just as i swallowed a spoonful of peanut butter or right when i swallow a spoonful of peanut butter she asks me...
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Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: “It Hurts”
By Judy Rohrer In the beginning of September I published a short article on a Hawai’i news site analyzing what I thought to be obvious...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Renewed Call to Action: Argentina Speaks Out against Femicide
By Fiona Gilligan It is Monday, 6 June 2016. A year since the inaugural march, organizers of the mass social-media-born movement #NiUnaMenos renewed their...
