All posts by Guest Contributor
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Two Poems
By Caits Meissner the two girls loved like a sieve and drank a river of fish and read poems too big for their mouths...
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Sacrifice, Religion and Exclusion: On Parade in Little Saigon
By: Duane Bidwell In 1954, the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision made it clear that “separate” is not “equal” when it...
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Femmes, Pulling the Pieces Together: A Keynote Address by Pratibha Parmar
Last August, award-winning filmmaker Pratibha Parmar delivered a keynote address at FEMME Conference 2012: Pulling the Pieces Together, in Baltimore, Maryland. We are thrilled to...
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Op-Ed: The Dangerous Limits of Race at the Academy Awards
By Roya Rastegar We are far from a “post-racial” society. The films nominated for Best Adapted or Original Screenplays reveal an intensifying compulsion to engage...
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Django in Philly
By Quincy Scott Jones On my last New Year’s Day in Philadelphia, I did what I always do on New Year’s Day in Philadelphia: I...
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Talking Vultures, Humans, and Warm Flesh with Charles Bowden
By Alice Driver Some people we know only through their words. And so it was with author Charles Bowden and his images of bloated bodies,...
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OpEd: The Science of Love Behind the Science of Rape
By: Angela Willey “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Todd Akin’s now infamous...
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Feminists We Love: Salamishah Tillet
By Darnell L. Moore and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Dr. Salamishah Tillet is a feminist academic, activist, and writer. She is an Assistant Professor of English and...
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(Insert Witty Scandal-Related Title Here): Continuing the Dialogue
By Brandon T. Maxwell The following is an attempt to respond to some of the critiques of my article, “Olivia Pope and The Scandal of...
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Poetry Spotlight: Tiphanie Yanique
Anniversary I am knotted at the house screaming. The moving church careening away with my husband. Christ, they’ve committed him. But the witnesses...
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Love In a Time of Scandal
By Brittney Cooper and Treva Lindsey The following conversation took place on Sunday, February 10th, 2013. What began as a Facebook conversation among several dynamic black feminists/womanists...
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Op-Ed: Lessons From Brooklyn College: A Victory For BDS, Academic Freedom, and the Vanquishing of Bullies
By: Katherine Franke In case you haven’t heard, last Thursday night Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti spoke at Brooklyn College about the notion of using...
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Transit Violations: Locating the ‘Bus Rape’ in L.A. and Other Public Geographies of Violence
By: Asha Best I began writing this piece in late November 2012, but even in the process of returning to it and revising, reports of...
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Olivia Pope and the Scandal of Representation
By Brandon Maxwell On April 5, 2012 Shonda Rhimes premiered yet another television drama that would entice millions of viewers to faithfully return to their...
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Two Poems
By Saumya Dave Daughter Dreams Before arid fate grips these ankles and loneliness seduces my lungs I’ll offer who I never was ...
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Can We End Violence Against Women and Girls?
By Soma Chaudhuri Violence against women and girls is pervasive in today’s world. The Feminist Wire recently published several articles and one Op-Ed, showcasing in...
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Op-Ed: Women, Rape, and Lack of Toilets
By Sunil Bhatia In the aftermath of the gruesome gang rape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapist in New Delhi, the Government of India set...
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Some Concluding Thoughts on Violence Against Women in the U.S. and India
By Julie A. Hagstrom My perspective comes from a long career as a community and statewide advocate for domestic and sexual violence victims in Michigan....