History
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, A Historical Note: Pan-African Feminist Adelaide Casely Hayford
By Keisha Blain Adelaide Casely Hayford was, as she once described herself, a “race woman through and through.” Like Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Una Marson, and...
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“Naming Our Destiny”: Afterword to The Feminist Wire’s Forum on June Jordan
This online gathering represents a tiny sampling of all those whose lives have been influenced, impacted, ignited, and inspired by June Jordan’s relentless and fiercely...
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Ode to June Jordan’s ‘A Poem about My Rights’
Inspired by the work of June Jordan we have both offered artistic, sonic, and poetic meditations on June Jordan’s, A Poem about My Rights.
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A Conjuring: Love Supreme: June Jordan, Love Note for JJ
By Alexis De Veaux Conjuring I do not meet June Jordan. I encounter her. The way one encounters what one cannot see- force, cosmic energy,...
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A Legacy of Resistance
words run deep, trickling through layers of Israeli propaganda and lies spoonfed to American audiences of CNN and FOX News. She wove truth...
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June Jordan Solves the Energy Crisis: Love is Lifeforce
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Not many people are turning to black feminist texts from the 1970s as their major strategy for addressing the current climate...
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the oath
june's voice was a stranger in my mouth. she did not equivocate or dissemble; she did not hide her meaning in metaphor; she did not...
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For June
In our current times of collective struggle’s reinvigoration, the life and works of June Jordan provide vital lessons. Writing between the 1960s and the early...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Spectacle of the Transgender Child
By Harper Keenan In recent years, the Internet has spawned a variety of new short film genres, including “The Cute Animal Video,” “The Lip Sync...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When You Renounced the Catholic Church (or sex with you)
By Stevie Lynn Hunter I remember the first time your fingers were inside of me, but nails inside of me have always bothered me...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, (F)Act of Blackness: The Politics of Mixed Race Identity
By Jazlyn Andrews “That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and...
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Editorial
U.S. election politicking is distasteful even during the best of times. In our white supremacist, misogynist, xenophobic, capitalist nation—more oligarchy than democracy, further entrenched by Citizens...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Why Were We Laughing at Drake’s Dancing in “Hotline Bling?”: On Body Movement and Black Masculinity
By Lauren M. Todd In the past month, there has been a huge buzz of unabashed laughter at the Grammy-Award winner, Billboard Chart record breaker,...
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Collective Statement on Precarity and the Demand for Feminist Accountability in NWSA, 2015
STATEMENT TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S STUDIES ASSOCIATION ~~~ In the aftermath of the 2015 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference focused...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, I Am A “Failure” To China, But Let’s “Fail” Together
By Yaqing Yang I’ve grown a “failure” to my Dad and “lost” to my Mom and Gram. Yesterday, I read an article published by BuzzFeed...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Dear Communities: In Lieu of a Conclusion to the “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival
Dear Communities: We are grateful for your engagement with this Forum over these past two and half weeks—reading, comments, and sharing with others. Your interest...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, End to Beginning
By Sa Fa *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* and then one day you finish your...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, for the professor who hurt me & got away with it
By Martina “Mick” Powell *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* i will let you have this...
