By Kaila Philo At least, this is what I’ve taken from you all these years. Black women aren’t meant to be love interests or high...
By Lindsay Lusby Girl with no Hands Her own father mistook her for an apple tree, full-trunked and red-cheeked. . So he hacked at limbs,...
We interrupt our summer break to bring you this article, in light of recent events within black religion and black popular culture. This is not...
May 25th was African Liberation Day (ALD). The Feminist Wire is celebrating ALD with two interviews of African Feminists We Love: Fadzai Muparutsa, a Zimbabwean...
The Walking Dead Girl in my history class totally started looking like a zombie from The Walking Dead. ...
By Desiree Rodriguez When geek culture started to truly flourish with the increasing profitability of superhero movies, supernaturally based TV shows, and renewed interest in the...
May 25th is African Liberation Day (ALD). The Feminist Wire is celebrating ALD with two interviews of African Feminists We Love: Amina Doherty, a Nigerian...
In her 2010 presidential address to the American Studies Association, Ruthie Wilson Gilmore invited us to “infiltrate what exists, innovate what doesn’t.” I achieved this...
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...
By Colleen Ladd A group of girls stand in line at the back of a large house with white French doors, the only thing that...
By Lisa (Leigh) Patel Sometimes when some folks approach me out of an assumed shared cultural identity, I get tight. Recently another South Asian woman...
By Rochelle Terman Last month, Brandeis University announced that it had reversed its decision to award Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary degree following grassroots organizing...
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...
By Roges Ahnet No One Is Disposable: Everyday Acts of Prison Abolition highlights the importance of utilizing a prison abolitionist framework to confront and dismantle...
This summer, TFW Associate Editor Heidi R. Lewis will be teaching a course in Berlin on Afro-German Women, Feminism and Berlin.
By Emily Lindsay Jackson The article “Safe Passage,” written by Diane Hill of the Canadian Women’s Foundation, advocates young women develop “resilience” to overcome the...
By Stephany Rose I don’t hate white men. Though having to directly assert such a position is evidence for why my work of Abolishing White...
By Mohadesa Najumi Dedicated to my mother. They try to shrink you. Tame you. Convince you that all your rage is a product of your...