Communities of Color
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, First World Problems: How Language Reproduces the Colonial Narrative of Superiority
By Chichi Okonkwo The 21st century has seen continued “cloud” popularization and, with it, memes. The commonality of memes and our propensity to reduce sentences...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Volunteering Abroad: Harmful or Helpful?
By Manon Arundhati Fabre While considering my options for the upcoming 2016 summer, I took a particular interest in searching for volunteering opportunities in Sao...
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Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: “It Hurts”
By Judy Rohrer In the beginning of September I published a short article on a Hawai’i news site analyzing what I thought to be obvious...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Renewed Call to Action: Argentina Speaks Out against Femicide
By Fiona Gilligan It is Monday, 6 June 2016. A year since the inaugural march, organizers of the mass social-media-born movement #NiUnaMenos renewed their...
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Who is Accountable to the Black Latinx Child?
Content Notice: This article is part of the #LoveWITHAccountability forum on The Feminist Wire. The purpose of this forum and the #LoveWITHAccountability project is to prioritize child sexual abuse,...
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It’s the Whispers
Current activism about everything from the school-to-prison pipeline to police violence notes that our Black children are deemed older than we really are, with knowledge...
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Self Love with Accountability
Being in community with other survivors and expressing myself artistically has been critical in my healing journey. Community helps to end the stigma and shame...
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The Coiled Spring First Grader Deep Inside: Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice
The discrediting of black girls’ experiences starts in preschool and kindergarten, where they are taught to endlessly check, police and second guess themselves. It’s symbolized...
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In My Mother’s Name: Restorative Justice for Survivors of Incest
My mother devoted the latter part of her life to healing herself, reclaiming her power, confronting her abusers and raising a daughter who would one...
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We need Speak7 because Black Children Matter and Child Sexual Abuse Thrives in Silence!
The Speak7 African American Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program utilizes the 5 Sexual Safety-Affirmative Values, which serve as a guiding framework in this intervention. These...
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Casting Aspersions
If we advocate for the truth, we have to let go of the ideas that our religion, respectability, morality, and discipline will keep us safe....
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Accountability to Ourselves and Our Children
What we know is that child sexual abuse is an epidemic. It is traumatic. Surviving it increases the chances that you will be sexually assaulted...
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Violation and Making The Road By Walking It
It’s not about people’s inability to make the leap between accountability and love. It’s about whose well-being is valued in our society and whose is...
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Our Silence Will Not Save Us: Considering Survivors and Abusers
As a womanist psychologist, minister, and sacred artist, my reflections on effective response to child sexual abuse necessitate an examination of the journey of survivors...
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How I Built Community While Researching Accountability
I knew then that if following that truth was healing her and kept bringing her back to this honorable work, that indeed we were no...
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Love Centered Accountability
Living in a punitive, crime and punishment society makes the idea of #LoveWITHAccountability almost inconceivable. What on earth would be unearthed if we began to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, “Wrong or Right, Black or White?”: The Convergence of Race, Gender, and Justice in Constructions of Catwoman
By Jazlyn Andrews Have you ever felt so intrigued by a fictional character that you want to explore every facet of them until they...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Model Minority Myth: “Performing” Asian
By Angela Kong “What’s your major?” They ask me. I pause. I always pause. I’ve never been the type to speak up in class....
