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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Bracelets
By Sarena Tien You slide the bracelet over your hand, expecting it to fall straight down your forearm. “Hey,” you say to your friend,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, If College Heterosexual, Cis Men were Raped More than Everyone Else
By Julie Winterich If you find this title ugly, you’re right. It’s jarring and upsetting. So is sexual violence. I’m a professor of sociology...
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4 poems by Rebecca Seiferle
xxiii. if you sit by me I won’t be able to hear the words for listening to your body. . . ....
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Personal Is Political: Migrant Ironies: Migrants Hope for Life Without Limitations in Houston
By Yehuda Sharim Scratch the surface of the living conditions in the United States, and you’ll find immigrants for whom deportation is not merely a threat or a...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, New Shoes: Cinderella after the Ball
By Judy Leigh She will need new shoes. She looks at her feet, the sore feet, the feet that danced all night. The feet...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, What I Have Learned from the Women Who Have “Lost”
By Taylor Bak I will write these poems until I prove you wrong, I will write these poems even if they’re a “waste...
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2 pieces by Phoebe Glick
It Saved My Life, It Made Me Tired If you call my hotline, I will simply say I’m not here. I’m sleeping under the...
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What has the “nation” got to do with it? A Case of Sedition
Someone has to access this history just so he/she/they may wrestle to the ground this troubling concept, one that carries within it two dangerous strains—colonialism...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, A Historical Note: Pan-African Feminist Adelaide Casely Hayford
By Keisha Blain Adelaide Casely Hayford was, as she once described herself, a “race woman through and through.” Like Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Una Marson, and...
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“Naming Our Destiny”: Afterword to The Feminist Wire’s Forum on June Jordan
This online gathering represents a tiny sampling of all those whose lives have been influenced, impacted, ignited, and inspired by June Jordan’s relentless and fiercely...
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Ode to June Jordan’s ‘A Poem about My Rights’
Inspired by the work of June Jordan we have both offered artistic, sonic, and poetic meditations on June Jordan’s, A Poem about My Rights.
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A Conjuring: Love Supreme: June Jordan, Love Note for JJ
By Alexis De Veaux Conjuring I do not meet June Jordan. I encounter her. The way one encounters what one cannot see- force, cosmic energy,...
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Remembering June Jordan and Madonna’s ‘Borderline’
In 1984, just before I began journalism school at Columbia University, fate delivered me to the then-Brooklyn home of June Jordan.
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A Legacy of Resistance
words run deep, trickling through layers of Israeli propaganda and lies spoonfed to American audiences of CNN and FOX News. She wove truth...
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June Jordan’s Songs of Palestine and Lebanon
Jordan turned the most gruesome horrors in our world—the world of Arab isolation and unabated imperial violence--into searing poems and essays that spoke to...
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The Occupation Stole My Words, June Jordan Helped me to Relocate Them
Black feminist poet warrior scholar June Jordan traveled with me from my apartment in Bedstuy (or Bedford-Stuyvesant as she named the urban neighborhood in Brooklyn...
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June Jordan Solves the Energy Crisis: Love is Lifeforce
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Not many people are turning to black feminist texts from the 1970s as their major strategy for addressing the current climate...
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“Defeat Will Be Detestable to Us”: A Tribute to June Jordan
And now, I hung on to June Jordan’s every word. I watched her on screen in Pratibha Parmar’s A Place of Rage. Her words were...
