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Tamura A. Lomax Honored With Ida B. Wells Award
The Feminist Wire's co-founder and co-managing editor Dr. Tamura A. Lomax has been recognized with the Ida B. Wells Award from the Black Church Studies...
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TFW’s Co-Managing Editor Darnell L. Moore for USA Today
MEET DARNELL. THE 39-YEAR-OLD IS A SPEAKER, EDUCATOR AND WRITER. The four short video segments below are for a special Black History Month Series on...
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TFW’s Brooke Elise Axtell to Perform with Katy Perry at Grammys
TFW's Brooke Elise Axtell will perform with Katy Perry at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 8, 2015 at the Staples Center...
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TFW’s Mecca Jamilah Sullivan at Kweli / NY Times African Heritage Reading Series
Join TFW Associate Editor MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN (author of Blue Talk and Love), LASHONDA KATRICE BARNETT (author of Jam on the Vine), and TIPHANIE YANIQUE (author...
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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis on Bitch Media’s “Propaganda”
What are young feminists excited about today? On this episode, we head back to school, talking with students around the country about what feminism looks...
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Breaking News: An Open Letter of Love to Black Students: #BlackLivesMatter Dec
By blackspaceblog We are Black professors. We are daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, cousins, nieces, nephews, godchildren, grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, and mothers. We’re writing to tell...
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TFW on winter break for the month of December
Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. We absolutely love that you love us and that you value and support our work. However, we...
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TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Alexis Pauline Gumbs Honor Audre Lorde in Feminist Studies
TFW's Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Alexis Pauline Gumbs honor Black Lesbian Feminist Mother Warrior Poet Audre Lorde in the 80th anniversary year of her birth...
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On Toni Cade Bambara and the Darren Wilson Jury Decision
We are explicitly clear that our commitment to honoring Toni Cade Bambara is just what we need now and every other heinous time when Black...
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The Feminist Wire Celebrates Writer Toni Cade Bambara’s Life and Legacy In An Upcoming 75th Birthday Anniversary Forum
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.thefeministwire.com Curators/Editors: Heidi R. Lewis, Ph.D., and Aishah Shahidah Simmons The Feminist Wire (TFW) will host a ground breaking two-week...
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TFW at the Upcoming National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference
Several members of The Feminist Wire will be in San Juan, PR for the National Women's Studies Association annual conference this November! Will you? If...
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TFW’s Darnell L. Moore and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Present at “Are The Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality?” Conference
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 10:30AM through Friday, October 24, 2014 at 6:15PM, the Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University...
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TFW’s Heather Laine Talley Releases Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance
Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance By Heather Laine Talley In the twenty-first century, appearance matters seemingly more than ever before. At...
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Editorial: In Solidarity with Anita Sarkeesian and All Women Who Speak Out
This morning, we, along with many others, learned that feminist blogger and media critic Anita Sarkeesian has been forced to cancel a scheduled talk at...
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Are You Willing to Put “5” on TFW?
The Feminist Wire just hit 50! We are so excited that more than 50,000 people have liked our Facebook page, which means thousands of readers have access to...
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TFW’s Mecca Jamilah Sullivan reads at All About Skin celebration of women writers of color
Saturday, October 25th, 2014 5:00-7:30pm at La Casa Azul Bookstore 143 E 103rd St, New York, NY 10029 ...
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TFW’s Sikivu Hutchinson & Andrea Plaid at Atheists of Color “Moving Social Justice” Conference
On October 11-12, the People of Color Beyond Faith network and Black Skeptics Group will host the first annual “Moving Social Justice” conference at the...
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Rotten to the Core: The NFL and Domestic Violence
By David J. Leonard and Monica J. Casper The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found that fully a third of women in the...
