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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Where Flowers Can Grow
By Anastasia L. **Content Notice: discussion of sexual assault and violence** When I was twelve, I was first sexually assaulted by a relative while we...
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Fiction: “Nature, Nurture”
By Namrata Poddar Lisette don’t like to work. Mostly, she paint mandalas on tiles and have exhibition four times a year to sell her...
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Male Ego Bulls**t: On Martial Arts Training, Violence, and Toxic Masculinity
By Jesse Goldberg This past summer, I got to watch a friend of mine win her first sanctioned kickboxing title. I’ve been training in martial...
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TFW’s Sikivu Hutchinson debuts Jonestown film “White Nights, Black Paradise”
On November 18, 1978, more than 900 people died in a mass suicide/murder at the Peoples Temple Settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. Based on the acclaimed novel...
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On Gloria Naylor’s Transition: A Love Note
On September 28, Gloria Naylor died of a heart attack while visiting the Virgin Islands at just 66-years-old. I was just 7-years-old and in 3rd grade...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Capital-P-Productivity
By Laura Honsig “Capital-P-Productivity” is what a friend of mine called it once. For a long time I’ve been trying to put words to an...
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“It Takes A Village”: Afterword to the #LoveWITHAccountability Forum
There aren’t any words that will articulate the depth of my deep gratitude and love for each of the twenty-nine individual #LoveWITHAccountability forum contributors who...
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LOVE WITH ACCOUNTABILITY: A Mother’s Lament & A Daughter’s Postscript
As a Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Activist, I am shocked and ashamed of myself. I am ashamed that I let my...
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Becoming Each Other’s Harvest
Let us envision a society that does not empower the carceral state to intervene in the affairs of our families and communities, but instead builds...
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Who is Accountable to the Black Latinx Child?
Content Notice: This article is part of the #LoveWITHAccountability forum on The Feminist Wire. The purpose of this forum and the #LoveWITHAccountability project is to prioritize child sexual abuse,...
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On Moving Forward
Removing the threat of prison is also likely to bolster odds that victims and their families come forward and challenge abusers. The prospect of losing...
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It’s the Whispers
Current activism about everything from the school-to-prison pipeline to police violence notes that our Black children are deemed older than we really are, with knowledge...
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activist, poet, prison abolitionist, human rights advocate, incest and rape survivor
I don’t need an “apology” from the harm doers in my life to actually heal. I don’t need a pitiful recognition to liberate myself. Amends...
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Safe Space: The Language of Love
To espouse a system of avoidance and silence is to espouse the alienation, physically, and spiritually of those who have been relegated to the margins...
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Thoughts on Discipline, Justice, Love and Accountability: Redefining Words to Reimagine Our Realities
That imagining, visioning and building is speculative fiction. What would our world look like without child sexual abuse/violence? What are the ways we are learning...
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Paying it Forward Instead of Looking Backwards
I can now share my story because of the anti-rape movement, and each telling helps the healing. Maybe love with accountability is paying it forward...
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Self Love with Accountability
Being in community with other survivors and expressing myself artistically has been critical in my healing journey. Community helps to end the stigma and shame...
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The Coiled Spring First Grader Deep Inside: Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice
The discrediting of black girls’ experiences starts in preschool and kindergarten, where they are taught to endlessly check, police and second guess themselves. It’s symbolized...
