Search results for "disabilities"
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Disabilities Studies Gains Cultural Capital? And Now What?
By Alyson Patsavas I attended my very first Society for Disability Studies conference in the summer before I started a PhD program in disability studies....
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*REVISED* Call for Submissions: TFW Forum on Disabilities, Ableism, and Disability Studies
Eddie Ndopu and Alyssa Zisk, forum co-editors, and the TFW Editorial Collective would like to thank Amanda Mennis for writing a more accessible version of the...
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***UPDATED***Call for Submissions: TFW Forum on Disabilities, Ableism, and Disability Studies
Forum Editors: Eddie Ndopu, Heather Laine Talley, and Monica J. Casper At TFW, we aim to not only produce feminist content but to embody our...
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Generations of white women’s violence stop here: On watching the Amy Cooper video with my 5-year-old white daughter
By Annie Menzel For white people working to align ourselves with justice, it makes sense to want to distance ourselves from Amy Cooper, the “Central...
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Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
We are pleased to announce the publication of Tamura Lomax’s new book, Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture (Duke University Press),...
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#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
Sept 15, 1976, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” premiered on Broadway for the first...
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#eulogizingaretha: An Introduction (and contextualization)
A little over a week ago, after sitting through seven-plus hours of Black Church homegoing bliss fit for a queen, many of us sat in utter...
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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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Press Release: Tamura Lomax, Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Alexis Pauline Gumbs to be honored by Spelman College and Black Women’s Blueprint
For Immediate Release TFW’s Tamura Lomax, Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Alexis Pauline Gumbs to be honored by Spelman College and Black Women’s Blueprint April 29 – 30,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, My Journey Within The Social Development Sector: Musings, Frustrations, Reflections
By Arpita Das I find myself increasingly disillusioned with the development sector, even though it has been my professional home for nearly sixteen...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART THREE
By Lina Chhun In this post-inauguration period, we are living with what may seem to be a very keen tension—that tension between the dangers of...
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An Open Letter to University Presidents, Provosts, and Governing Boards
By Monica J. Casper and Adela C. Licona In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. To Toni Morrison’s prescient admonition we,...
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Yank and Pull
By Keshia Scott “Stop! Here, let me help you.” Your hand clenches around my arm and yanks me away from the stairs. You turn me...
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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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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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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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“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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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,...
