All posts by Guest Contributor
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“Touch: A Letter to the Mother”
By: L. Lamar Wilson I’ve driven 654 miles without sleep to make you better, but when I ask how you feel & you thrust your...
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Bebop, Jazz Manhood and “Piano Shame”
By Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. In sixth or seventh grade, a time of life when most guys my age were trying on their swagger, I was...
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White Men Rule the World*
By Joseph Osmundson I have spent much of my life running away from white masculinities. I don’t write about home very easily or very often. ...
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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About American Indian Imagery in Sports: Thoughts on Mascots and Racialized Masculinity
By C. Richard King When we talk about Native American mascots, we are talking about the entanglements of race and gender. It is easy to...
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Hmong Butch: The Antinomies of Being Fourth World
By Bee Vang Have Asian American male bodies been castrated out of existence? Or out of perceivability? Are Asian and masculine simply oxymoronic? The burden...
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Man in Sound, Man in Place
By Carlos Ulises Decena At age ten, I joined my local troupe of the Asociación de Scouts Dominicanos (Dominican Boy Scout Association) in Santo Domingo....
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The Pulaski Skyway of Our Manhoods
By Edgar Rivera Colón The jet black steel girders arched like aging flexed muscles fill my mind as I remember car rides with my Dad...
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Take the Shackles Off My Feet So I Can Dance*: A Call to End Gender Policing
By Robert Jones, Jr. Real men aren’t polite; politeness is for sissies. Body posturing is everything; real men don’t cross their legs at the knee...
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Introduction: The Masculinities Forum
By Lisa Jean Moore When I was invited to participate in coordinating The Feminist Wire’s Forum on Masculinities, I was both excited and more than...
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Special Report: The Feminist Wire goes to the Commission on the Status of Women, or the CSW Through My Virgin Eyes
By Special TFW Correspondent, Mazuba Haanyama Week one is rapidly drawing to an end and I feel like I have been hit by a train; a...
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Op-Ed: Solo Women Travelers: “Go Out Without Your Body”
By Alice Driver “The only thing left to say is, ‘If you don’t want anything to happen to you, go out without your body,’” instructed...
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Delhi: From Shame to Defiance
By Harsha Walia Two months ago, Jyoti Singh Pandey was brutally raped and beaten by a group of men in Delhi. She died a few...
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Two Poems
by Brook Blander Stupid (from now that I’m here; lyrics from the mud to the sun) …is what they call her. Without regard to...
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Taunts, Tweets, and Black Girl Genius
By Salamishah Tillet “Baby girl genius,” is what I muttered when I saw Quvenzhané Wallis shine bright on the television screen last Oscar Sunday night. Beaming...
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An Open Letter to Amanda Marcotte
By Tara L. Conley Dear Amanda. Resting uneasily in this contentious, but necessary space, I write this letter to you. Gloria Anzaldúa calls it a...
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Op-Ed: Nicholas Kristof and the Politics of Writing About Women’s Oppression in Darker Nations
By Sunil Bhatia On February 13, 2013, Nicholas Kristof gave a talk at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. His talk, titled Striving for Global Justice, was...
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On Beyoncé, Benedict, and the Volition of Women
By Lisa O’Neill At a school mass at my all girls’ Catholic High School, the priest said a homily about chastity, and in particular, sex...
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In Mourning
By Isaiah M. Wooden This…for Hadiya Pendleton. I used...