Activism
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Until the Last One…
By Olivia N. Jones, Mount Holyoke College ‘14 September 14, 2013 was Marissa Alexander’s 33rd birthday. It is undoubtedly incredibly unfortunate that this black mother...
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Alternatives to the Present System of Capitalist Injustice
By Mumia Abu-Jamal and Angela Y. Davis The Feminist Wire offers an exclusive look at this new essay to be published in the forthcoming...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal on Martin Luther King, Women, and the Movement
The Feminist Wire Exclusive: Mumia Abu-Jamal offers a timely message for Martin Luther King Day that addresses the gender politics of the Civil Rights and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Sentiment of Success
By Camille Evans I am an artist, a feminist, and a reluctant perfectionist. But what I am certainly not is—emotional. When it comes to self-expression,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Let Your Anger Consume the World, Not You
By Samantha Pevear I lie on my bed with my legs against the wall, feet arched towards the ceiling. I begin banging my heels into...
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Queer African Reader: A Review
By Rita Nketiah and Rose Afriyie In the past decade, African sexual minorities have received increasing attention. 2013 alone saw numerous headlines most notably around...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Girl(s) with the Pearl Earring(s)
By Renna Gottlieb I’m sitting in a small dining hall at Connecticut College, surrounded by about fifty of my student peers. My school is located...
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TFW Available for Women’s History Month!
March is Women’s History Month! And The Feminist Wire is available for speaking engagements. If you follow our work, you know that we serve a...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Understanding My Juicy Thighs, Thanks to Jenny from the Block
By Jamie McKaie The biography sat on the bookshelf of my fourth grade classroom, as if patiently waiting for me. The bell rang. Ring. I ran for...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Conversations With My Abuelita
By Isabel Hibbard I like to think that I have helped my abuelita cope with the pain of her past, especially during her loneliest years...
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Feminist Theory: A College Forum
Last semester, I taught a course in feminist theory. The primary goal of this course was to have students read feminist theories, but with a...
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TFW: The Year in Review
Today is the final day of 2013. And this year has been one that pushed many people around the world to deeply consider and interrogate...
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Open Letter to Presiding Bishop-Elect Joseph W. Walker III and the “By Invitation Only” Attendees of the Inaugural Meeting of the SHIFT
Religion is a site of both freedom and oppression. The Black Church in particular, is a significant source of meaning making and marginalization in the...
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An Open Letter to My Transgender Brothers on World AIDS Day 2013
By Kai M. Green Dear Kinfolk: Today is World Aids Day. Today, I remember those who we have lost. I remember the ancestors we have...
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Op-Ed: A Difficult Solidarity with Saudi Women
By Sana Hashmi A Huffington Post headline last month read: “Rotana Tarabzouni’s Lorde Cover Will Make You Stand In Unity With Saudi Arabia’s Women (Video).”...
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Artist Sophia Wallace Responds to CLITERACY Critiques
By Sophia Wallace As an artist, my job is to explore an idea aesthetically and then share my work with the public. In this light,...
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An Open Letter to UConn Students
By Judy Rohrer I am choosing the form of an open letter as a tribute to the courage UConn student Carolyn Luby showed when she...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: No More Civility: Putting an End to UConn’s Violence and Silence
By Martina Powell and Lauren Todd When University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst addressed the recently filed Title IX complaint against the university as “astonishingly...
