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TFW: The Year in Review
With the intertwined mission of fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives, 2012 gave our contributors no shortage of topics about which to write. We saw...
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Django Unchained: A Critical Conversation Between Two Friends
By David J. Leonard and Tamura A. Lomax There have been so many great discussions on Django Unchained, so many thoughtful and engaging articles, and even...
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Talking About Grief and Violence
From the editors: Here at TFW, we have many, many email and phone conversations that never make their way onto our site. We bounce ideas...
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TFW Interviews an Expert in the HIV Prevention Field: Dr. David Malebranche
TFW: The theme for World AIDS Day from 2011-2015, which is “Getting to Zero: Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths,” is a...
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Introducing: Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Emory University. Broadly, Tressie is interested in organizations, education, labor, and stratification. Currently,...
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Take Care: Notes on the Black (Academic) Women’s Health Forum
By Aimee Meredith Cox, Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Tamura A. Lomax With every piece I read, I felt like a layer of my skin was...
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Breaking News: President Obama has been re-elected!
And we continue the work of justice… The Feminist Wire Collective
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Introducing: Theresa Runstedtler
Theresa Runstedtler is Assistant Professor of American Studies in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and was recently a Mellon...
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Andrea Plaid, Associate Editor of Racialicious: The TFW Interview
By Darnell L. Moore and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Racialicious is one of the hottest race and pop culture blog sites to emerge in the social media...
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Changes to TFW's Submission Policy
The Feminist Wire is a collective. We are a group of people who all have day jobs and/or schooling, partners and families, activist work, and...
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World Contraception Day
Today, September 26th, is World Contraception Day. And here at TFW, we invite you to consider what contraception has meant and may still mean to...
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Introducing TFW Intern Maura Jennison-Obenshain
TFW is delighted to introduce our current intern, Maura Jennison-Obenshain, who will be working for us throughout the fall semester. Maura is a graduate student...
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Introducing: Sophia Azeb
Sophia Azeb is an Egyptian-Palestinian anarcha-feminist teacher, writer, and organizer pursuing her PhD in American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Sophia’s...
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Introducing: Tanisha C. Ford
Tanisha C. Ford, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer, intellectual, and activist designing her own brand of “Haute Couture Intellectualism.” She is currently writing a book, Liberated Threads:...
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U.S. Positive Women's Network devastated by murder of HIV-positive woman in Dallas
The U.S. Positive Women’s Network (PWN), a national membership body of women living with HIV, is devastated to hear the tragic news that a young...
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Call for Submissions: Black (Academic) Women's Health
Phillis Wheatley, the first African American published poet, died at age 31. The strength of her work and the courage of her being did not...
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Thinking "Out of Bounds": Masculinity, Male-to-Male Affection, and Athletics
By: David J. Leonard and Darnell L. Moore In a recent documentary, which was featured on NewsOne, Sylvia Harvey “explores the strange double-standard that allows...
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Extension! TFW Forum on Muslim Feminisms
Editor’s note: We’ve extended our deadline for submissions to July 15th. The Feminist Wire (TFW) is seeking articles from Muslim women, men, and allies on their...