All posts by Hakima Abbas
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Global Blackness
The following remarks were read at the Black Life Matters conference in Tucson, Arizona, on January 15, 2015. Good morning, everyone. I’m sorry I couldn’t...
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Feminists We Love: Professor Amina Mama
Feminism is the theory, philosophy, politics and practices of the movement for women’s liberation. It has numerous manifestations all over the world. It offers us...
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Feminists We Love: Hawa Y. Mire and Luam Kidane of NSOROMMA
When I asked Hawa and Luam who they were, Hawa said: “I’m a storyteller and organizer. My family moved from Somalia and I have grown...
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Feminists We Love: Yara Sallam
Editors’ Note (July 1, 2014): The Feminist Wire stands in solidarity with our sisters in Egypt. On Saturday (June 21, 2014), Yara Sallam was arrested by...
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Feminists We Love: Fadzai Muparutsa
May 25th was African Liberation Day (ALD). The Feminist Wire is celebrating ALD with two interviews of African Feminists We Love: Fadzai Muparutsa, a Zimbabwean...
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Feminists We Love: Amina Doherty
May 25th is African Liberation Day (ALD). The Feminist Wire is celebrating ALD with two interviews of African Feminists We Love: Amina Doherty, a Nigerian...
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Afterword: A Love Letter to Mumia
Dearest Mumia, I have been writing this letter for many years, in my head and in my heart, but have not until now committed the...
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Celebrating Assata Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition
Assata Shakur’s political thought and activism has captured the imagination of artists, activists, women and men around the world. As African activists, we have learned from...
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Feminists We Love: Leigh Ann van der Merwe
Leigh Ann van der Merwe was born in 1982 in Ugie, Eastern Cape of South Africa. Growing up as a gender questioning person, she struggled...
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Open Letter to Obama
Dear President Barack Obama, I hope you don’t mind me addressing you directly. I would like to call you brother, as I am known to...
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Are women occupying new movements?
At the recently concluded OpenForum, held in Cape Town South Africa, I was asked to speak to the question of whether ‘women are occupying new...
