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The War on Women in My Hometown
We at The Feminist Wire, and many people around the United States, were shocked but not surprised by the Supreme Court decision on Hobby Lobby....
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A Statement on the Hobby Lobby Ruling
The Feminist Wire finds the Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby to be a gross violation of women’s fundamental freedoms. SCOTUS has determined,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Poetry By Jaclyn Weber
The Walking Dead Girl in my history class totally started looking like a zombie from The Walking Dead. ...
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Who’s Still a Slave? Contemporary Black Women’s Rhetoric, Art, and Global Realities
By Janell Hobson “Are you still a slave?” That was the title of a forum on May 6, 2014 at the New School, featuring black...
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No One is Disposable: Dean Spade, Reina Gossett and CeCe McDonald Discuss Prison Abolition
By Roges Ahnet No One Is Disposable: Everyday Acts of Prison Abolition highlights the importance of utilizing a prison abolitionist framework to confront and dismantle...
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Rethinking Resilience in Violence Against Women Debates
By Emily Lindsay Jackson The article “Safe Passage,” written by Diane Hill of the Canadian Women’s Foundation, advocates young women develop “resilience” to overcome the...
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Putting Down the Weight: How Social Media Makes Eating Disorders Worse
By Annetta Ramsay Demi Lovato, the actress and singer, has been open about her struggle with an eating disorder since her 2010 emergence from a...
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For Cláudia Silva Ferreira: Death and the Collective Black Female Body
By Christen Smith What do we want from each other After we have told our stories do we want to be healed do we want...
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On Boko Haram, Missing Children, and Narcissism
By Niama Safia Sandy This month I’ve watched as everyone talked about the mounting tension between the Ukraine and Russia, the Heartbleed superbug, the South...
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The Radical Politics of Self-Love and Self-Care
By SooJin Pate When most people think about love, it is usually a feeling that flows outward towards some person or some thing: “I love...
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Racism, Sexism, and the Myth of the “Confidence Gap”
By Kim Tran Last year Sheryl Sandberg told women to “lean in.” This year Katty Kay and Claire Shipman are telling women worldwide to “stand...
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A Tale of Two Mothers
By Hanifa Barnes Scottsdale, AZ It is a beautiful afternoon in Scottsdale, AZ. The temperature will reach a high of 80 degrees, as a single...
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The Future: Resistance Beyond Apathy
The lamenting of “today’s youth” and their so-called apathy, ignorance and self-indulgence is nothing new. Each successive generation is often dismissed by “adults” who publicly...
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Beyond the Politics of Voting
By Alexandra Moffett-Bateau As a political scientist, during any given election year, I’m bombarded with questions about my assessment of the current electoral slate....
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Not My Vagina
By Meera Seshadri “And then there’s the African American moan.” Something prickled under my skin as I sat there in the dark, watching the...
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Every 28 Hours: An Ode to Renisha McBride (A Sermon)
By Nyle Fort The following is a sermon delivered on January 19, 2014 at the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens (Somerset, NJ). The preaching...
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Caring Queer Feminist Communities
By Jay Keim At a workshop with the Northwest Network (Seattle, USA), I was asked why I became an anti violence advocate. I felt ambivalent...
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From Feminist Critique to Social Transformation: Lessons from Social Forum
By Rose M. Brewer A little over seven years ago, January 20-25, 2007, I was in Nairobi, Kenya at the World Social Forum. For those...
