Popular Culture
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Buff, Black, Tattooed, and Feminist: On the Utility of a Bro-Feminist
By Marquis Bey A feminist friend of mine—a 4’10” queer white woman—jokingly mocks my “bro-ness,” that is to say, my proclivity to throw around weights...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Can the Side Chick Speak?: Side Chicks Re(Thot)
By Samantha Crook Now that the “year of the side chick” has come to a close, let’s resolve to have a more “thotful” side chick...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Two Poems by Ruth Corkill
By Ruth Corkill I Never Called You Lolita She’s a real glamour puss hmm. She doesn’t Just doodle around she actually Calls herself...
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Personal is Political: Unhandsome: Race & Gender, a Chocolate Man’s POV
My complexion earned me unflattering monikers including, but certainly not limited to, Blackie, Spot, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Tar Baby. I was also...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: “What White Publishers Won’t Print:” Systemic Racism in (Institutionalized) Knowledge Production
By Mali D. Collins In 2013, I began an internship with an academic publishing press. It seemed to be the perfect combination of my dream...
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Feminists We Love: Linda Janet Holmes [VIDEO]
Linda Janet Holmes is Toni Cade Bambara's first biographer and she is an incredible storyteller. During our interview, Linda shared so much about Toni's incredible...
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Personal is Political: A Letter to Toni
Pearl Cleage: I remember us welcoming our own daughters into our undeniably bohemian lives and wanting them to grow up strong and free. We wanted...
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Image Weavers: In Honor of the Spirit of Toni Cade Bambara
NaOme Richardson: Consequently TCB opened the door of learning how to express oneself through words and images for several of the women who became Image...
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The Authenticating Audience
Louis Massiah: On the contrary, when art is understood as a mode of political work, with the explicit goal of communicating a needed counter-narrative or...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Litany for Jada and Janay: In the Spirit of the Lorde
By Cinnamon Williams What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun....
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The Feminist Wire Celebrates Writer Toni Cade Bambara’s Life and Legacy In An Upcoming 75th Birthday Anniversary Forum
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.thefeministwire.com Curators/Editors: Heidi R. Lewis, Ph.D., and Aishah Shahidah Simmons The Feminist Wire (TFW) will host a ground breaking two-week...
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TFW at the Upcoming National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference
Several members of The Feminist Wire will be in San Juan, PR for the National Women's Studies Association annual conference this November! Will you? If...
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Op-Ed: What’s Happening on the Mindy Project is Not Okay
By Nashwa Khan I used to love The Mindy Project. I would buy a pint of ice cream, drop all my work on Tuesday nights,...
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The Avenging Woman Onscreen: Man’s Best Friend?
By Lara C. Stache As most graduates of introductory film class learn, film is not only a source of entertainment but also reflects the society...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Slamming the Door: An Analysis of Elsa (Frozen)
By Shira Feder The Disney Princess franchise presents misogynist and terrifying fairy tales for profit. These stories enforce patriarchal views towards women that instate an...
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Personal is Political: Can the Subaltern Catcall?
If we wish to sincerely practice intersectionality in our feminism, then we must look with eyes unclouded by idolization at the white feminists of the...
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What My Mother Taught Me: Loving Self
By Kimberly George Now in the third decade of my life, I am realizing all the things my mother was right about. She was right...
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Elementary Feminisms: A Call to Young Women
By Shama Nathan Recently, I came across an old post that had quickly surfaced on Tumblr. The post was discussing the problem with teaching girls...
