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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Disbanding with White Patriarchy, Embracing Ourselves Despite Our Differences
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...
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Staying on the Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement on the Election
The Feminist Wire is fundamentally committed to intersectional truth-telling. We are uncompromising in this, and we will name the damage. We are not the mainstream...
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DAPL and the Matter/ing of Black Life
By M. Shadee Malaklou Two days after President Obama pardoned the White House turkey and one day after Americans sat down at tables across the...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, First World Problems: How Language Reproduces the Colonial Narrative of Superiority
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Why I Read the Comments
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Volunteering Abroad: Harmful or Helpful?
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...
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Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: “It Hurts”
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Renewed Call to Action: Argentina Speaks Out against Femicide
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...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Capital-P-Productivity
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...
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“It Takes A Village”: Afterword to the #LoveWITHAccountability Forum
There aren’t any words that will articulate the depth of my deep gratitude and love for each of the twenty-nine individual #LoveWITHAccountability forum contributors who...
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Becoming Each Other’s Harvest
Let us envision a society that does not empower the carceral state to intervene in the affairs of our families and communities, but instead builds...
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Who is Accountable to the Black Latinx Child?
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,...
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It’s the Whispers
Current activism about everything from the school-to-prison pipeline to police violence notes that our Black children are deemed older than we really are, with knowledge...
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activist, poet, prison abolitionist, human rights advocate, incest and rape survivor
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...
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The Coiled Spring First Grader Deep Inside: Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice
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...
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Our Silence Will Not Save Us: Considering Survivors and Abusers
As a womanist psychologist, minister, and sacred artist, my reflections on effective response to child sexual abuse necessitate an examination of the journey of survivors...
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Fast
We must ask: What is the relationship between accountability and transformative justice? Justice that transforms harm into something else, like Black love, is hard work....
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Digging Up the Roots: An Introduction to the #LoveWITHAccountability Forum
We must also address child sexual abuse and other forms of sexual violence in our families, our communities, and our religious, academic, political, and civic...
