Feminism
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, A Historical Note: Pan-African Feminist Adelaide Casely Hayford
By Keisha Blain Adelaide Casely Hayford was, as she once described herself, a “race woman through and through.” Like Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Una Marson, and...
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“Naming Our Destiny”: Afterword to The Feminist Wire’s Forum on June Jordan
This online gathering represents a tiny sampling of all those whose lives have been influenced, impacted, ignited, and inspired by June Jordan’s relentless and fiercely...
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Ode to June Jordan’s ‘A Poem about My Rights’
Inspired by the work of June Jordan we have both offered artistic, sonic, and poetic meditations on June Jordan’s, A Poem about My Rights.
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A Conjuring: Love Supreme: June Jordan, Love Note for JJ
By Alexis De Veaux Conjuring I do not meet June Jordan. I encounter her. The way one encounters what one cannot see- force, cosmic energy,...
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A Legacy of Resistance
words run deep, trickling through layers of Israeli propaganda and lies spoonfed to American audiences of CNN and FOX News. She wove truth...
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June Jordan’s Songs of Palestine and Lebanon
Jordan turned the most gruesome horrors in our world—the world of Arab isolation and unabated imperial violence--into searing poems and essays that spoke to...
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June Jordan Solves the Energy Crisis: Love is Lifeforce
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Not many people are turning to black feminist texts from the 1970s as their major strategy for addressing the current climate...
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June Jordan, Genre Fiction, and Publishing for the People
I think of that bawdy, drinking, version of June Jordan, the one laughing loudly and cussing. I can only hope that she would read my...
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A Love Note to June Jordan from Margo Okazawa-Rey
You loved South African women struggling to Free South Africa and wrote for them “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Your love of...
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Another world is possible for we are the ones we’ve been waiting for
This article is brought to you courtesy of the Black Feminisms Forum Working Group of which Kimalee Phillip is a member. The Black Feminisms Forum...
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For June
In our current times of collective struggle’s reinvigoration, the life and works of June Jordan provide vital lessons. Writing between the 1960s and the early...
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“These words/ they are stones in the water”: Introduction to The Feminist Wire Forum on June Jordan
Jordan’s insistence on the arts as a source of power was not confined to the limits of the page. She was a fiercely committed...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Spectacle of the Transgender Child
By Harper Keenan In recent years, the Internet has spawned a variety of new short film genres, including “The Cute Animal Video,” “The Lip Sync...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Is Shonda Rhimes a Feminist?
By Alexander Stoffel Season five of Shonda Rhimes’s wildly popular show Scandal drew approximately eight million viewers per episode. What does it mean to...
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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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We need you! Please support TFW
Dear Friend of The Feminist Wire, Collective care and support is a feminist practice we at The Feminist Wire (TFW) work to embody. Today, we are writing...
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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...
