Entertainment
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Celebrating Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 and died on July 17, 1959. She squeezed a lot of living–and a whole lot of music–into...
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On Race, Trauma, and "Strange Fruit"
Recently, I taught Billie Holiday’s signature song, “Strange Fruit,” in my Critical Trauma Studies course in a harrowing session on lynching. My graduate students had...
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Ashley/Amber: A Review
By Neima Jahromi Director Rebecca R. Rojer’s short film, Ashley/Amber focuses on a young woman named Ashley (Diane Guerrero) who receives an overwhelming amount of...
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Too Short and the Feminists
By Ron B. Neal What happens when a feminist, a group of feminists or feminism as an ideology engages one of the most explicitly and...
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Noumenal Woman
A fabulous poem for International Women’s Day 2012. This time a poem inspired by, and dedicated to, Maya Angelou and phenomenal women everywhere. ...
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Faux-Apology Not Accepted: Fire Rush Limbaugh for His Hateful Misogyny
By Soraya Chemaly Rush Limbaugh’s limp quasi-apology to Sandra Fluke isn’t good enough. Clear Channel Communications, the largest radio station owner in the US, should fire him...
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A 21st Century Shakespearean Tragedy
Some feminist satire for Friday! To vajazzle or not to vajazzle? That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a plain vagina, Or to take arms against a sea of glittering vulva, And by opposing end them? To die: to bling no more; and by not bling to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that labia is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish’d. ...
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Get There: Four Electric Ghosts
Get There: A Review Four Electric Ghosts: An Opera-Masquerade by Mendi and Keith Obadike Four Electric Ghosts, the newest Opera Masquerade from digital, performance and...
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Of Ambivalence: The Help, Obama, and the Ultimate Slave Re-Mix
And so here we are. In the same week, President Barack Obama became the first president in the history of Billy Graham’s “crusade,” and the...
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‘Schoolin’ Life’: Teaching Beyoncé and Engaging Youth
Editors note: Just recently, several media outlets took to their cyber-phones, and began parsing what it meant for a cultural icon like Beyoncé to enter...
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Why Roland Martin's Homophobic Tweets Shouldn't Be Ignored, Even Now
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Darnell L. Moore, & Kenyon Farrow Over and over again as racially-conscious, Black feminist lesbian and gay people, we find ourselves...
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Super Spectacle: Race, Gender, and the Hawking of Products
The Super Bowl is a spectacle. Whether talking about the pregame festivities, the hype, the halftime show, or the game itself, it is the embodiment...
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"Truth to Power:"? No Truth or Empowerment in Jason Whitlock's Tweet
By the Collective (see below) The Feminist Wire | New Black Man We come together to express our collective disappointment over Jason Whitlock’s recent tweet about Jeremy Lin. ...
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Whitney Houston Is Dead at 48
Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music‘s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous...
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Republican Candidates To Debate Whose Sperm is More Sacred
By Soraya Chemaly In the wake of Rick Santorum’s three-state primary and caucuses win yesterday, Republican candidates have agreed to debate whose sperm is actually most sacred....
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The Hunger Games
By Monica J. Casper and Mason Casper-Milam On March 23, 2012, The Hunger Games comes to cinematic life in the U.S.; the trailer promises much...
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Thinking Outside the Blockbuster: Women of Color Make Films for Real Women
By Melissa Robertson For many American filmgoers it might sound unbelievable that only about 6% of all fiction filmmakers are women. However, to both professional...
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A Fly Girl: Black Sexual Politics and Beyoncé
By David J. Leonard and Kristal Moore Clemons A newly discovered horse fly by Australian scientist Bryan Lessard has become global media fodder. While usually not a...