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martina pronounces her own name (ode to June Jordan)
By Martina “Mick” Powell for June Jordan this is how i learn it: her black and in cropped cut and singsong her in a summer water, the florida of it...
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the oath
june's voice was a stranger in my mouth. she did not equivocate or dissemble; she did not hide her meaning in metaphor; she did not...
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June Jordan, Genre Fiction, and Publishing for the People
I think of that bawdy, drinking, version of June Jordan, the one laughing loudly and cussing. I can only hope that she would read my...
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A Love Note to June Jordan from Margo Okazawa-Rey
You loved South African women struggling to Free South Africa and wrote for them “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Your love of...
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Another world is possible for we are the ones we’ve been waiting for
This article is brought to you courtesy of the Black Feminisms Forum Working Group of which Kimalee Phillip is a member. The Black Feminisms Forum...
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For June
In our current times of collective struggle’s reinvigoration, the life and works of June Jordan provide vital lessons. Writing between the 1960s and the early...
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“These words/ they are stones in the water”: Introduction to The Feminist Wire Forum on June Jordan
Jordan’s insistence on the arts as a source of power was not confined to the limits of the page. She was a fiercely committed...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Spectacle of the Transgender Child
By Harper Keenan In recent years, the Internet has spawned a variety of new short film genres, including “The Cute Animal Video,” “The Lip Sync...
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2 poems by Caryl Nuñez
“Even though they have never seen me, they will remember me. Their bodies will remember me down to the smallest structures of their flesh. You...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Is Shonda Rhimes a Feminist?
By Alexander Stoffel Season five of Shonda Rhimes’s wildly popular show Scandal drew approximately eight million viewers per episode. What does it mean to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When You Renounced the Catholic Church (or sex with you)
By Stevie Lynn Hunter I remember the first time your fingers were inside of me, but nails inside of me have always bothered me...
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THANKSGIVING MEAL by H. Melt
THANKSGIVING MEAL i arrive at my parents house for my first thanksgiving with my girlfriend in the oven is the turkey on the...
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We need you! Please support TFW
Dear Friend of The Feminist Wire, Collective care and support is a feminist practice we at The Feminist Wire (TFW) work to embody. Today, we are writing...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Screws, Servos, and Sexism: How Men Almost Made Me Quit Engineering
By Jordan Prochnow During my sophomore year in high school, I joined the robotics team. The majority of the team consisted of mostly boys;...
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2 poems by Martha Silano
Ode to Frida Kahlo’s Eyebrows Cult of the brow ascending like a condor, of refusal to bow to the whimsy of busy tweezers. From...
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Dreaming of a (Feminist) Revolution
By Zillah Eisenstein This is an offering for after “Super-Tuesday’s” outcome…when many of us are beginning to think that we will have to vote for...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, (F)Act of Blackness: The Politics of Mixed Race Identity
By Jazlyn Andrews “That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and...
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The Night I Met Gregory Corso, or Go Pump Yourself by M.J. Tenerelli
The Night I Met Gregory Corso, or Go Pump Yourself I am early for Dinner With the handsome misogynist lawyer Who is much older...
