All posts by Guest Contributor
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For David Kato: A Love Poem: a Ugandan Gay Rights Activist, 1964-2011
By Joseph Ross Because my kisses are tender against your throat. Because my lips are not the steel hammer that snaps your neck...
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Transnational Parental – Child Abduction: ’Tis the Season to be Wary
By Anique John-Carter and Alanna Kennedy Transnational abduction frequently conjures up images of children being trafficked from one part of the world to another for economic...
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Remedy for a Homophobic/Biphobic/Queerphobic/ Transphobic Naija
By Adaku Chinenye Utah On Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 my country, Nigeria, passed an anti-gay bill through the Senate that would criminalize same-sex marriages and civil...
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Criminal Fashions: The Hermeneutics of Hip-Hop Aesthetics
The hip hop aesthetic has recently made its way to the cover of Vogue Italia, one of the most influential magazines of the fashion world....
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A Manifesto: The Silence of HIV, Killing Us Slowly
By Monique Howard When you read this, read it in a loud voice. I am screaming, ranting, trying to be heard over the din of the...
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From "Temp Job" to Career: A Quarter Century in the Fight Against HIV
By Al Cunningham My perspective on HIV prevention continues to be driven by the circumstances under which I became involved in this work 25 years...
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Violence Against Women Is a Global Pandemic
By Soraya Chemaly, TFW special correspondent, feminist satirist and media critic Violence against women is a global pandemic? Like H1N1? Like in Contagion? No way. Think of...
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Positively Speaking: An Interview with Maria Mejia
By: C. Jones The Feminist Wire has decided to place the voices of persons living with HIV/AIDS at the center of its 2011 World AIDS...
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Octavia McBride-Ahebee
The Japanese Teahouse To Greg Witcher I can now see the skirt hems of hants stitched by the hands of the living they keep with...
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Cheryl Clarke
one million black women and no mention of HIV/AIDS? vi. In this hostile corridor A quickening nostalgia suffuses me, this late evening fin...
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Tim’m T. West
“medicine” how i do it this not-always-easy how i keep strong on weak(er) days is i think of the joy beckoning for me to...
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Holiday Films: Does This Year's Crop Misrepresent Women?
By Soraya Chemaly The Holiday movie season is here! And, true to form, as revealed in USC’s Annenberg School’s most recent study of gender in the 100...
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Mitt Romney's Evolving Attitude Toward Women
By Amanda Winkler Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are speaking out about GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s attitude toward women, asserting...
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‘Half of women’ tell of emotional violence
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro Family violence experts are calling for national debates surrounding issues of emotional violence against women in New Zealand after a study found...
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Police Burn Tents To Clear Cairo's Tahrir Square
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro As Egyptian civilians gathered around Tahrir Square to urge the military government to transfer power to a civilian government (an agreement made...
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"Is a Woman President ‘Macho’ Enough for Mexico?"
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro In less than nine months, Mexico will have the chance to vote for their first female president. Josefina Vazquez-Mota is competing for...
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Penn State Evil
By Charles E. Bowie As a former athlete and football player I struggled in coming to terms with what happened at Penn State. The cult...
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Mixed Signals Spark Fear, Hope For Saudi Women
By Catherine Morrisey-Ribeiro King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia originally told Saudi women he intended to give them more rights in 2015 (to which Saudi feminists...