Sexism
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Not All Art Is Painted: How A Week Without Makeup Can Make All The Difference
By Jordan Prochnow Makeup can be a double-edged sword for me. With it, I feel great; without it, I feel self-conscious. Makeup makes being a...
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A Message from the Founder: Write. Fight. GIVE.
Dear Friends of The Feminist Wire, I co-founded TFW with Hortense Spillers in 2011 while still a graduate student. My vision was to create an...
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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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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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Thoughts on Discipline, Justice, Love and Accountability: Redefining Words to Reimagine Our Realities
That imagining, visioning and building is speculative fiction. What would our world look like without child sexual abuse/violence? What are the ways we are learning...
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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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Unfinished
For centuries, Black women have been expected to hold up the church, whether through finances, service, or both. Who’s holding up these women? Who’s singing...
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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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a place to live
I understood I was going to have to write, which, for me, meant jumping into a volcano and praying I would be able to climb...
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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...
