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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Jade Perry Last Monday a good friend sent Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets Part 2” via inbox with the caption, “She’s baaaaack.” I clicked...
By Kylie Nicole Gemmell During my last quarter as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to create, facilitate, and teach my own course. This...
By Ramisa Raya to kill your daughter, wrap her up in white satin and place her in the hands of wolves then when you...
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...
By Monica J. Casper and Adela C. Licona In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. To Toni Morrison’s prescient admonition we,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...