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The War on Women in My Hometown
We at The Feminist Wire, and many people around the United States, were shocked but not surprised by the Supreme Court decision on Hobby Lobby....
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A Statement on the Hobby Lobby Ruling
The Feminist Wire finds the Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby to be a gross violation of women’s fundamental freedoms. SCOTUS has determined,...
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Astonishing Embodiments: Poetry and Feminism from Molly Sutton Kiefer
By Molly Sutton Kiefer I remember that heady time of my undergraduate years when I was so anxious to change the world–that requisite minor in...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Poetry By Jaclyn Weber
The Walking Dead Girl in my history class totally started looking like a zombie from The Walking Dead. ...
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Demeter Press at Risk of Closing: Is Motherhood a Feminist Issue Worthy of Support?
By Christine H. Morton Do we need a feminist movement for mothers? Do motherhood scholars need their own association and publisher? Andrea O’Reilly, founder of...
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Who’s Still a Slave? Contemporary Black Women’s Rhetoric, Art, and Global Realities
By Janell Hobson “Are you still a slave?” That was the title of a forum on May 6, 2014 at the New School, featuring black...
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The Cult of Motherhood: A Century of Mother’s Days
By Melissa Seelye As a child growing up in the United States, I perceived our national holidays as no more artificial than the days of...
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Expectations: Intimate Feminisms Embodied
By Erin Durban-Albrecht and Monica J. Casper Our intention in collating this Mothers Day montage for The Feminist Wire is to celebrate women’s contributions...
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In Solidarity with Mireille Miller-Young: Porn Studies, Context, and Speech
By Heather Berg Various scholars, journalists, and shock jocks have shared their perspectives on the March 4th encounter between UCSB Professor Mireille Miller-Young and the...
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Toward a Feminist Politics of De-Criminalization and Abolition: Why We Support Dr. Mireille Miller-Young
By Tamara L. Spira and Heather M. Turcotte We contest the criminalization of UC Santa Barbara feminist studies professor, Dr. Mireille Miller-Young. As feminists dedicated...
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Patriarchal PONTIFICATIONS, and the Problem of “Justice”
By Zillah Eisenstein Pope Francis criticizes unbridled capitalism for its injustice. He has been applauded widely and loudly for this and he should be. But...
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Artist Sophia Wallace Responds to CLITERACY Critiques
By Sophia Wallace As an artist, my job is to explore an idea aesthetically and then share my work with the public. In this light,...
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Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy (A conversation with editor Sekile Nzinga-Johnson)
Sekile Nzinga-Johnson is a BADDDDD sista in the Sonia Sanchez sense. She is a mother, educator, scholar, ruler of the roller derby scene as Malice...
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Op-Ed: Shutting Down Our Rights
By Kari O’Driscoll If the House of Representatives’ most recent attempt to obliterate the Patient Care and Affordable Care Act is any indication, politics in...
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Introducing: Squeezed Between Feminisms (But Not Benedict Cumberbatch)
By Andrea Plaid and Tami Winfrey Harris; crossposted at Squeezed Between Feminisms Tami: You had to work Benedict Cumberbatch in here, didn’t you? I’m beginning...
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I Used To Believe…Now I Know
By Lara Lillibridge I used to believe that my mother was complicit in everything that went wrong in my life. I knew that she wasn’t...
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How To Forgive Abortion When You Are the Aborter
Andria Nacina Cole I imagine there are many feminists who would like to mourn an abortion but are afraid to do so, because to admit...
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Op-Ed: You’re Pregnant? What a Shame!
By Laura Phelps If you’re an English language teacher, like me, you’ll be familiar with the concept of adjacency pairs. These are call-and-response phrases that...
