By J. Bob Alotta Preface. There is a framed poster of Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich in my office. It is a poster for a...
By Margherita Giacobino Editors Note: We are grateful to Italian feminist lesbian activist, organizer, and author Roberta Padovano for making us aware of this important...
by Sappho Fulton and Ness white This conversation was one part of my and Sappho’s joint multilayered and interdisciplinary performance assigned for Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s...
“We are feminist warriors, not perfectionists.” ~ Lisa Factora-Borchers ~ I begin with my sister Lisa Factora-Borchers’ quote to remind myself that striving for perfection is actually...
By Robert Reid-Pharr We all have to die at least once. Making that death useful would be winning for me. I wasn’t supposed to exist...
There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in...
By Lester Olson Unlike many of the contributors to this forum, I did not have the privilege of knowing Audre Lorde while she was alive...
By Jessica Horn Editors Note: We were scheduled to post a reflection by Jessica Horn later in this second week of our global forum celebrating...
By Donna Aza Weir-Soley Mothers are central to our identities. Even those of us who do not claim motherhood as central to how we define...
By Angelique V. Nixon I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic and the noon’s new...
By Lyndon K. Gill In early June of 2013, the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) convened its thirty-eighth annual conference in Grand Anse, Grenada. Just a...
By Farah Tanis I was named by my mother at birth in the presence of my grandmother, keeper, vessel of the Gods and Goddesses, descendent...
A Woman Speaks By Cheryl Boyce-Taylor I pick a bunch of hibiscus blooms. What lessons shall I learn from the spell of their senses? ...
By Gabrielle Le Roux Editors Note: We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of radical and revolutionary South African activist Sally Gross. We can’t...
By Mary Kathryn Dean The Texts: Luke 8:4-15 When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in...
By Andrew J. Young When Aishah Shahidah Simmons first asked me to submit a piece to The Feminist Wire’s forum on Audre Lorde, I have...
By Cheryl Clarke Editors note: Since this is a special 80th birthday anniversary forum in celebration of one of our ancestor heroines, and Cheryl Clarke...
By Thomas Glave Even as I write these words I myself feel some ambivalence in regard to the “To hell with” in this work’s title. ...