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Recovered Histories of Anti-Rape Activism: Celebrating Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Intersectional Approaches
By The Feminist Wire Associate Editors We write in celebration of our visionary sister and comrade/comadre, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, black lesbian feminist, cultural worker, filmmaker,...
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Fiction: Making Gulab Jamun and Kachori
By Jyothsnaphanija Doctor examines mother-in-law’s pulse, fills home with smell of syringes. You remember playing with syringes, when you were a five year old girl, the...
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A Poem by Jenny Rossi
My face a Band-Aid, ode to insecurity I think the new intern is smarter than me the way a lake is wider than a...
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Photographs from The Aftermath by Paige Megan Hawley
My project, The Aftermath, was my way of coping with the after effects of rape. Each individual photograph reflects in detail what happened...
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On Beauty Under Bathroom Lights
On Beauty Under Bathroom Lights by Kimberly Keplar Cross legged on the floor, below the medicine cabinet mirror and glass shelves that were forever clouded...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, International Women’s Day
By Macy Casper In March, we celebrated International Women’s Day. I was surprised, given the current political climate, to see the lack of youth media...
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2 poems by Lisa Dordal
Transaction After the prayers were spoken, the hymns sung and your casket closed, we followed you—Father and I— through the courtyard blooms of...
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Four Poems from the Brothers Grimm by Sarah Kortemeier
Beginnings In older times, when wishes still helped, youth was the witch. A small man lived like a king and also...
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Black Marriage Unshackled: An Interview with Historian Tera W. Hunter
I recently spoke with historian Tera W. Hunter about her groundbreaking new book Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (The...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, You Did.
By Eunice Park You didn’t speak – but you did stare Smile right at me and bare A rock tumbling back and forth South...
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Date Grape by Freesia McKee
Date Grape “Brewer responds to protests about offensive beer name” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 7th, 2016 What if I took the worst thing...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Flanked by Rappers and TV Anchors @ AAPI Music and Media
By Celine Parreñas Shimizu Typically, academics are neither seen as relaxed like rappers nor glamorous like news anchors. So when invited to be on a panel...
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The First White Amerikkkan Man
By Joe Pullen Since before Donald Trump was Donald Trump, it’s been a fairly simple proposition: Groom them aggressively, taking a little more each time,...
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Fifty Shades of Consent: Rape Culture Versus Feminism
By Kelly Oliver As I started research on campus rape for my book Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape, I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Myth of the Master
By Sophie Alka Whether as a lover, mother, daughter, sister, or in religious life, there is a social narrative happening that is telling us that,...
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Voice, Power and Soul: African Feminists In Their Own Words
By Jessica Horn and Dr. Sionne Neely African feminisms are now attracting global attention, with a number of feminist writers finding wide circulation in western media,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Shame Based Fun
By Sasha Fisher When I was eight years old, I used to make up stories at night to help me fall asleep. They usually involved...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Writing Wrongs
By Rosalind Moran What do you think of when you hear the words “Women’s Fiction?” I know what I think of. Swirly titles on...
