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...
Content Notice: This article is part of the #LoveWITHAccountability forum on The Feminist Wire. The purpose of this forum and the #LoveWITHAccountability project is to prioritize child sexual abuse,...
I don’t need an “apology” from the harm doers in my life to actually heal. I don’t need a pitiful recognition to liberate myself. Amends...
To espouse a system of avoidance and silence is to espouse the alienation, physically, and spiritually of those who have been relegated to the margins...
Being in community with other survivors and expressing myself artistically has been critical in my healing journey. Community helps to end the stigma and shame...
The discrediting of black girls’ experiences starts in preschool and kindergarten, where they are taught to endlessly check, police and second guess themselves. It’s symbolized...
Networks of care for our children, and for the adults who have survived means creating community-based responses to violence. Responses which do not engage in...
Please, give us our reparations if you knew that someone was hurting us and we couldn’t cry out for ourselves. Please check on us, make...
I understood I was going to have to write, which, for me, meant jumping into a volcano and praying I would be able to climb...
I knew then that if following that truth was healing her and kept bringing her back to this honorable work, that indeed we were no...
Living in a punitive, crime and punishment society makes the idea of #LoveWITHAccountability almost inconceivable. What on earth would be unearthed if we began to...
By Sharon Lin I don’t need your misogyny Your happy-go-lucky sugar sweet kisses wrought against wet skin in a tattered skin-tight bathing suit...