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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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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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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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Some Important Changes at TFW
Dear TFW Supporter, For more than six years, TFW has been a labor of love. We’ve dedicated countless hours to reading, writing, reviewing, and editing,...
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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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#Feministcare: TFW on winter break December 2016
Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. Though we need each other now more than ever, TFW needs a break. This radical feminist, anti-racist,...
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Staying on the Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement on the Election
The Feminist Wire is fundamentally committed to intersectional truth-telling. We are uncompromising in this, and we will name the damage. We are not the mainstream...
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A Network of Care
Networks of care for our children, and for the adults who have survived means creating community-based responses to violence. Responses which do not engage in...
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Black Feminism Will Save My Life
By Eric Anthony Grollman Like most Black folks, I have a Black woman to thank for my existence (my mother) who, in turn, has another...
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Honoring Black Resistance without Supporting Nate Parker
During our many long and painful conversations about this publication, we deliberately and intentionally considered the reasons why so many Black folks would choose to...
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#Feministcare: TFW on summer break from June 15-July 15
Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. And thank you for loving us and valuing our work. ***We are breaking from June 15-July 15.***...
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TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons Receives Two-Year Just Beginnings Collaborative Fellowship
“True liberation must come from within. I am a Black feminist lesbian who is a survivor of both incest/child sexual abuse and rape. What better...
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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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Editorial Changes for 2016
Dear TFW Friends, We’re excited to announce some important changes to our editorial practices, effective immediately. We will no longer be accepting open submissions to...
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Top 15 Things TFW Accomplished in 2015
Happy New Year! We are raising a glass to you — and to us. Because of your dedicated support, TFW continues to be a critical...
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#Feministcare: TFW on winter break for the month of December
Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. And thank you for loving us and valuing our work. It’s been quite the year. As you...
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Editorial
U.S. election politicking is distasteful even during the best of times. In our white supremacist, misogynist, xenophobic, capitalist nation—more oligarchy than democracy, further entrenched by Citizens...
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New #EmergingFeminisms Team @ #TheFeministWire
TFW is growing, re-visioning, and re-imagining! We’ve got a lot on the horizon. Notably, under the leadership of Associate Editor Heather Turcotte, we’ve developed and...
