Black life matters
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The Feminist Wire Celebrates Writer Toni Cade Bambara’s Life and Legacy In An Upcoming 75th Birthday Anniversary Forum
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.thefeministwire.com Curators/Editors: Heidi R. Lewis, Ph.D., and Aishah Shahidah Simmons The Feminist Wire (TFW) will host a ground breaking two-week...
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#FergusonOctober: Francesca Griffin–A Black Woman and the Police State
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes “we who believe in freedom cannot rest” I was in St. Louis, Missouri recently for #FergusonOctober, a call “to build momentum for...
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On The Parliament Hill Shooting, Canadian Moral Panic, and Lack of Tenderness
By Dorothy Attakora For those residing in the downtown core of Ottawa like myself, the fear has not yet subsided. By now many worldwide have...
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Reflecting on Black Sexualities, Black Religiosity, and Black Lives in Anti-Black Times
The following remarks were presented on October 23, 2014 during the “Religion, Media, Markets and the Making of Black Sexualities” panel at the conference Are...
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Black on Purpose: Race, Inheritance and Queer Reproduction
By Savannah Shange On the morning of my insemination, I stood chilly in a paper exam gown rechecking the sperm donor number on the side...
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“Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!”: Gesture, Choreography, and Protest in Ferguson
The bodily act of the hands up don’t shoot protests takes those same bodies that are surveilled, disciplined, controlled, and killed and infuses them with...
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On Ferguson, the Fragility of Black Boys, and Feminist Futures
By Aliyyah. I. Abdur-Rahman Recently over dinner, my dear friend Sandy Alexandre, Associate Professor of Literature at MIT, and I were talking about both Michael...
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#FergusonFridays: White Anti-Racism, Social Media, and the Problem of Self-Serving Allying
Since Michael Brown’s murder, the Internet has been abuzz with content focusing on what white people could and should do to counter racism. Others have...
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Where are the White Feminists? MIA on Racist Misogynist Police Violence
The Oklahoma NAACP recently called on the Department of Justice to investigate accused rapist and Oklahoma City Police officer Daniel Holtzclaw for federal hate crime...
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#FergusonFridays: If it wasn’t for the women…[i]
The reality is that the women and girls are the fabric of the community and hold all together. The women usually think and work for...
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Rotten to the Core: The NFL and Domestic Violence
By David J. Leonard and Monica J. Casper The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found that fully a third of women in the...
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Lessons From Ferguson
By Tamura Lomax, Stephanie Troutman, and Heather Laine Talley One week ago, we traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, a place that has drawn the attention of...
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Better Off Dead: Black Women Speak to the United Nations CERD Committee
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Farah Tanis With each of our dead, we mourn the loss of a piece of ourselves and with each of our raped...
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Feminists We Love: Crista Noel, Africana Womanist
I first met Sister Crista Noel in August 2014 when we were in Geneva, Switzerland during the United Nations’ CERD (Committee on the Elimination of...
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Not all Black women.
By Nikki Patin Fat? Nope. You’re too unhealthy. Poor? Nope. You don’t know how to manage your money. Light and got the nerve to say...
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The Violence, Anti-Blackness, and Black Life Matters Forum: An Introduction
The recent shooting and murder of 18-year old Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, galvanized a local movement for justice on behalf...
