History
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Recovered Histories of Anti-Rape Activism: Celebrating Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Intersectional Approaches
By The Feminist Wire Associate Editors We write in celebration of our visionary sister and comrade/comadre, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, black lesbian feminist, cultural worker, filmmaker,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, International Women’s Day
By Macy Casper In March, we celebrated International Women’s Day. I was surprised, given the current political climate, to see the lack of youth media...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Flanked by Rappers and TV Anchors @ AAPI Music and Media
By Celine Parreñas Shimizu Typically, academics are neither seen as relaxed like rappers nor glamorous like news anchors. So when invited to be on a panel...
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The First White Amerikkkan Man
By Joe Pullen Since before Donald Trump was Donald Trump, it’s been a fairly simple proposition: Groom them aggressively, taking a little more each time,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Myth of the Master
By Sophie Alka Whether as a lover, mother, daughter, sister, or in religious life, there is a social narrative happening that is telling us that,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Shame Based Fun
By Sasha Fisher When I was eight years old, I used to make up stories at night to help me fall asleep. They usually involved...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Legislating Islamophobia From Villaneuve-Loubet to Washington
By Amy Oldfield Women of Villeneuve-Loubet, a coastal town just South of Nice, France, had a reason to celebrate on August 26, 2016 as...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, My Journey Within The Social Development Sector: Musings, Frustrations, Reflections
By Arpita Das I find myself increasingly disillusioned with the development sector, even though it has been my professional home for nearly sixteen...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Feminism Throughout The Ages
By Ella Gonzalez Today, “feminism” is a loaded word. It stands at the crossroads of being perceived as an incubator for change and progression for...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The People’s Champ
By Adam Szetela Ronda Rousey shattered the UFC’s conservative stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, now she is taking the fight to Donald Trump. ...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Do You Recognize Me Now?
By Joy De Guzman On my first days of pre-school a parent asked me with a smile “what are you?” At a time when...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART THREE
By Lina Chhun In this post-inauguration period, we are living with what may seem to be a very keen tension—that tension between the dangers of...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART TWO
By Lina Chhun A few months after returning from dissertation work abroad, I attended a talk with Professor Aisha Finch at UCLA. The talk expanded...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART ONE
By Lina Chhun Today I sat in my car and I waited for the sun to set. I can’t remember the last time I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Organizing Political Rage
By Mina Ezikpe On 20 September 2016, the day after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, I, with a few others, traveled...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, American Girlhood and the Confidence Gap
By Christiane Gannon My female students are discussing their relationship to criticism, gathered at the back of the room in two groups. On the left...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: In the Name of Redemptive Self-Love: Stop! The Holyrolling Fashion Police
By Melanie C. Jones Since the European male’s predatory gaze upon African women on precolonial African soil, the Black female body in Western culture has...
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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...
