Feminism
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Received: Black Women and Our Talking Bodies
By Neichelle Guidry One Sunday during my childhood, a woman in my church approached me with a “gift.” “God has led me to give this...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: The Black Church, Black Women and Sexual Discourses of Resistance [Revised]
On Monday January 30th, as America spiraled out into unparalleled capitalist, sexist, hetero-patriarchal, homophobic, ableist, white nationalist, Islamophobic, devilish entropy, discombobulation and corruption, Dr. Juanita...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Paying in Order to Perform Labor
By Kylie Nicole Gemmell During my last quarter as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to create, facilitate, and teach my own course. This...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Unbirthing Little Red Riding Hood
By Ramisa Raya to kill your daughter, wrap her up in white satin and place her in the hands of wolves then when you...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Teaching While Black: The Punishments of Teaching “Diversity” in the Face of Trenchant Ignorance, Racism, and Entitlement
By Stephanie Batiste Race, gender, and sexuality are core concepts in my teaching with regard to the authors, materials, and concepts I introduce. I teach...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Two Poems: “Flowers, I Thought” and “She Stirs the Night”
By Shelby Lynn Lanaro “Flowers, I thought” would brighten up the room, so a pot of yellow daisies sits on the window sill leaning to the...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, 1 in 4
By Courtney Sylvester **Content Warning: sexual violence, rape** 1 in 4 finally gets invited to a party 1 in 4 gets ready for a party...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Two Poems: “Look Out for the Girl” and “Under the Water I Remember”
By Katerina Roger Look Out for the Girl This young lady will give us a taster he says. assuming away a drop of our beer....
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Disbanding with White Patriarchy, Embracing Ourselves Despite Our Differences
By J.T. Roane The poison that is white patriarchy, has seduced all. It is like what Black feminist scholar Vivian Gordon called in a different...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Imposter to Entitlement
By Diksha Bijlani hey, my mother pulled off a solo raising two kids from the ground up her son a little too much like his...
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Trauma and Infinities: How Math Sharpened My Feminism
By Jamie Zabinsky On one of my 90-minute train commutes this summer, I came across a post in my beloved ‘weird Facebook’ group that pulled...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, @catcallsofnyc
By Sophie Sandberg I’ve always liked dressing in a “feminine” way. I love sundresses, low cut shirts, short skirts. I like how these clothes look...
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Women for Women: Why we should be supporting each other, instead of tearing each other down
By Jordan Washington A few months back, there was an article on Entertainment Weekly about Chloe G. Moretz’s comments towards Kim Kardashians’ naked selfie that...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Flusher
Flusher By Kristina Dover The bruises on her neck were beautiful. Her skin wasted my wallet this winter, that is, when nights were...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Not All Art Is Painted: How A Week Without Makeup Can Make All The Difference
By Jordan Prochnow Makeup can be a double-edged sword for me. With it, I feel great; without it, I feel self-conscious. Makeup makes being a...
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A Message from the Founder: Write. Fight. GIVE.
Dear Friends of The Feminist Wire, I co-founded TFW with Hortense Spillers in 2011 while still a graduate student. My vision was to create an...
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#Feministcare: TFW on winter break December 2016
Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. Though we need each other now more than ever, TFW needs a break. This radical feminist, anti-racist,...
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Staying on the Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement on the Election
The Feminist Wire is fundamentally committed to intersectional truth-telling. We are uncompromising in this, and we will name the damage. We are not the mainstream...
