Activism
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When You Renounced the Catholic Church (or sex with you)
By Stevie Lynn Hunter I remember the first time your fingers were inside of me, but nails inside of me have always bothered me...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Screws, Servos, and Sexism: How Men Almost Made Me Quit Engineering
By Jordan Prochnow During my sophomore year in high school, I joined the robotics team. The majority of the team consisted of mostly boys;...
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Dreaming of a (Feminist) Revolution
By Zillah Eisenstein This is an offering for after “Super-Tuesday’s” outcome…when many of us are beginning to think that we will have to vote for...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, (F)Act of Blackness: The Politics of Mixed Race Identity
By Jazlyn Andrews “That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and...
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Black Women Reclaim the Conversation on Racism Worldwide
The last two years have seen an upsurge of highly-visible demonstrations and growing movements against racism across the world, from #BlackLivesMatter in the United States...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Repression and Inequality in the California State University Health Clinic
By Chris Arreola Last year, I visited the San Francisco State University (SF State) Student Health Services center to receive testing for sexually transmitted...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Chemistry Class
By Katie Suleski little boys pick on little girls they adore but sometimes big boys, to little girls take things too far “boys will...
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To each their own?
By Celeste Orr When I speak of the discrimination women and the LGBTQI communities face or when I am asked to discuss my doctoral...
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Top 15 Things TFW Accomplished in 2015
Happy New Year! We are raising a glass to you — and to us. Because of your dedicated support, TFW continues to be a critical...
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Front Line Defenders Dublin Platform Testimony
By Charlene Carruthers I gave this speech in Dublin, Ireland before the release of video showing the execution of Laquan McDonald by Chicago Police Officer...
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#Feministcare: TFW on winter break for the month of December
Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. And thank you for loving us and valuing our work. It’s been quite the year. As you...
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Nourishing for Disturbing and Disrupting: An Interview with Desiree Adaway
In world changing circles, self care might be the word of the year. Activists and artists, writers and teachers, organizers and trauma workers are transforming...
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Charlie Sheen and Celebrity (HIV) Status
By Keiko Lane, MFT I didn’t want my work week to go like this, but by Monday afternoon it was clear that much of it...
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Collective Statement on Precarity and the Demand for Feminist Accountability in NWSA, 2015
STATEMENT TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S STUDIES ASSOCIATION ~~~ In the aftermath of the 2015 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference focused...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, I Am A “Failure” To China, But Let’s “Fail” Together
By Yaqing Yang I’ve grown a “failure” to my Dad and “lost” to my Mom and Gram. Yesterday, I read an article published by BuzzFeed...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Dear Communities: In Lieu of a Conclusion to the “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival
Dear Communities: We are grateful for your engagement with this Forum over these past two and half weeks—reading, comments, and sharing with others. Your interest...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, End to Beginning
By Sa Fa *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* and then one day you finish your...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, for the professor who hurt me & got away with it
By Martina “Mick” Powell *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* i will let you have this...
