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...
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...
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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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...
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...
By Sumayyah Malik “A tribute to weirdom” i’m going to spread the primrose smell off myself, and will sprout today, like Jack’s beanstalk...
By Chichi Okonkwo The 21st century has seen continued “cloud” popularization and, with it, memes. The commonality of memes and our propensity to reduce sentences...
By Amelia Roskin-Frazee **Content Warning: sexual violence, hate speech** We’ve all had at least one friend tell us, “Don’t read the comments.” The...
By Manon Arundhati Fabre While considering my options for the upcoming 2016 summer, I took a particular interest in searching for volunteering opportunities in Sao...
By Chloe Sariego Since binaries are so early 2000s, I’m increasingly less interested in “pro” and “anti” porn debates. I’ve been a pro-porn feminist for...
By Judy Rohrer In the beginning of September I published a short article on a Hawai’i news site analyzing what I thought to be obvious...
By Fiona Gilligan It is Monday, 6 June 2016. A year since the inaugural march, organizers of the mass social-media-born movement #NiUnaMenos renewed their...
By Anastasia L. **Content Notice: discussion of sexual assault and violence** When I was twelve, I was first sexually assaulted by a relative while we...
By Laura Honsig “Capital-P-Productivity” is what a friend of mine called it once. For a long time I’ve been trying to put words to an...
There aren’t any words that will articulate the depth of my deep gratitude and love for each of the twenty-nine individual #LoveWITHAccountability forum contributors who...
As a Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Activist, I am shocked and ashamed of myself. I am ashamed that I let my...
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