masculinity
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Personal is Political: Becoming a Black Gay Man: Activism, Identity, and Community-Building in the South
Charles Stephens, "Nostalgia is a drug, so memory is distorted by sentimentality. But I cling to my sentimentality, because, in some ways, it fosters resilience....
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Rethinking Dear White People: One Viewer Questions its Depiction of Microagressions for Today’s Youth
By Monique John While only recently picked up by Lionsgate Films, Dear White People has had the Internet buzzing for over a year. The indie...
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Feminists We Love: Regina Bradley
I don’t remember the first time I met Dr. Regina Bradley. It might have been on Twitter; it might have been on Facebook; it might...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: For Darker Sisters
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes I am the great-great-great grandson of former enslaved Georgians—the Johnson family to be exact. I come from a lineage of individuals whom...
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Decolonial Intersectionality and a Transnational Feminist Movement
By Sara Salem Transnational solidarity among feminists has often been a difficult goal to achieve because of the continued dominance of Western feminism, the lack...
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I Knew what Rape was Before I Knew what Sex was
By Shivani Davé I knew what rape was before I knew what sex was. It wasn’t violent stranger rape that my mother told me about....
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Personal is Political: Trying to Understand (Critique): A Daughter’s Prayer
By Shelby Crosby I began asking why as soon as I learned the word. To critique seems intuitive to me. To move beyond critique, even...
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Treva B. Lindsey: The Future and the Now
Dr. Treva B. Lindsey is very much the future – of black popular cultural studies, feminist scholarship, social media activism, and so much more. Someone...
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Power Play with Anna Mae: Drunk in Love, Beyoncé and the Exploration of BDSM in the Deconstruction of Sexually Violent Mantras
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Fourteen weeks after its release, Drunk In Love has only now fallen to number 10 on Billboard’s “The Hot 100.” At week...
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Mad (at) Men’s March Madness
Dr. Cheryl Cooky writes about March Madness 2014 in order to problematize how media shapes our interests in sport and our cultural beliefs about gender....
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Getting Away With Murder on the Soccer Field
By Lorena Campos The recent case of South African Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has brought a global awareness to the issue of violence against women....
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The Impostor Syndrome and Me
I am writing to introduce myself. And to try to answer the question, “What am I doing here?” Every time I think up a new...
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Spike Jonze’s Her: Loneliness, Race, & Digital Polyamory
By Edgar Rivera Colón Spike Jonze’s Her is a cinematic tour de force, but it’s also a multi-layered cultural document of the present. Her, starring...
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Op-Ed: A Home of Our Own: Temporary Housing and LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
By Nicole S. Junior In 2012, twenty-one-year-old Romelle Johnson was transported by ambulance to a local Brooklyn, New York hospital.* While en route, an EMT...
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Personal is Political: Are You Doing Your Work? White Transmen Holding Ourselves Accountable to Audre Lorde’s Legacy
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...
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For Lucia Mcbath, Sybrina Fulton and All Other Black Mothers Who’ve Considered Righteous Rage When Black Respectability Politics Ain’t Enough
In “What is this “black” in black popular culture? (Rethinking Race),” the late, great cultural theorist Stuart Hall, poignantly asks, “What sort of moment is...
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On Michael Sam Coming Out
By Cheryl Cooky Nearly a year ago today, I was invited to deliver a lecture to the students at Wabash College (a small, all-male, liberal...
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Op-Ed: Why Does “Gender” Mean No Pay?
By Dean Laplonge It’s not unusual for me to be approached by resource companies for advice. My research and work explore the topic of gender...
