Feminism
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Cultural Plagiarism
By Shantel Perry Cultural appropriation is a continuing epidemic in the United States (US). Yes I said it, Black Culture (although we are not...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: The Lucky Ones [Trigger Warning: Discusses Sexual Abuse]
By Anonymous This is how her story...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: When She Breaks Your Heart: A Collection of Poems
By Ray Fraizer ~~~ Fear Tell me what fear is when you’re going eighty on E smoking what your father smelled like when...
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Poem: “existing while being female”
By Jenuine Poetess I don’t want to wear special nail polish don’t want to pay for self-defense classes don’t want to maintain this...
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Reclaiming the Narrative: On #SurvivorLoveLetter, Community, and Radical Healing
By Michelle Denise Jackson On Valentine’s Day 2009, I had sex for the very first time. It was my sophomore year of college, and I...
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REVIEW: All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color
At the Boundaries of Belief Review of All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, ed. Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer Review...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: Being a Feminist at Fourteen
By Olivia Emin I go to a school where the boys outnumber the girls. This isn’t a small difference; there are pretty much two and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pulp Fiction
By Rebecca Miller The night is a prison for rainbows. Light-deprived prisms and spectrums of grey. Bowls of fake fruit as centerpieces And gift-wrapped sweets in corners...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: “Real” Women: A Critique of “Feminist” Transphobia
By Rebecca Long As awareness of the harmful affects of the presentation of distorted female bodies in media and advertising has risen, so too has...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: And We Sat: Violence against the Bodies of Diversity and Transparency (DAT) Student Movement at Syracuse University
By Farrell Greenwald Brenner The ultimate connection cannot be the enemy. The ultimate connection must be the need that we find between us. It is...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Mama: A Short Story
By Nora Kervroëdan Mama always told me I should not complain. Stop whining, she would say. Be happy with what you’ve got. I...
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Tamura A. Lomax Honored With Ida B. Wells Award
The Feminist Wire's co-founder and co-managing editor Dr. Tamura A. Lomax has been recognized with the Ida B. Wells Award from the Black Church Studies...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Threw Me Chair
By Hannah Seelman He threw me into a chair, into despair as the blood rain warm, drip drop drip...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Love Rests in the Scream
By Brooklyn Payton Reflecting on the plethora of suggestive social justice images in conjunction with a continual meditative praxis on desired results of...
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Maha Abu-Dayyeh: A Life of Dedication
Maha Abu-Dayyeh’s contributions were varied and distinct, though inextricably joined, and spanned from the local to global. She helped to institutionalize women’s activism in our...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: The Day I Understood My Privilege
By Shama Nathan My friend and I sat on his back porch, slithering in the Caribbean heat. We sat in quietness, mostly slapping...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Are Racial Preferences Racist?
By Denio Lourenco Jr. Everyone has had a time in their life when they have been rejected or turned down by someone they were interested...
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Op-Ed: Nous Ne Sommes Pas Charlie: A Feminist Rejection of “Je Suis Charlie”
By Elizabeth Harwood The January 7th attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is an atrocity. Yet, it is not only the actions of “terrorists” but...
