Sexuality
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Toni Cade Bambara: A Woman of and for the People
Michael Simmons: What struck me about Toni during this time was that she was continually engaged in forming organizations that allowed African American artists to...
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The Telling of Stories
Bia Vieira: When Toni comes into my life, when she invites me to understand my story as a way to find strength and value within...
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We Remember You, Me and Us: Transgender Day of Remembrance
In reclaiming the body from the biomedical syndicate as well as from the naturopathic types I have been dealing with, the best way I know...
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A State of Rage (for Toni Cade Bambara)
I am tired of the silences that have been imposed on us. Shhhhh. Black women and girls. I am tired of the silences that we, Black...
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Slavery: the Haunting Legacy of Sterilization Abuse in California State Prisons
By Tala Khanmalek Last year the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) announced that nearly 150 female prisoners in California were sterilized without consent from 2006 to...
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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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Facebook and Apple Want Your Unborn! Or, Why Corporations Should Keep Their Hands Off Employees’ Ovaries
By Sayantani DasGupta We all knew the Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision earlier this year, which ruled that corporations with religious owners cannot be made...
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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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Op-Ed: Enthusiastic Consent
By Brittany Burton Contrary to what I know is best for my emotional wellbeing, I recently read a news article about California’s new Enthusiastic Consent...
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Music Feature: Las Krudas Cubensi – “Mi Cuerpo es Mio” [VIDEO]
Las Krudas Cubensi are Cuban Hip Hop MCs, independent musicians, poets, and theater performers representing womyn, immigrants, queer people and people of color through action as...
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TFW’s Darnell L. Moore and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Present at “Are The Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality?” Conference
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 10:30AM through Friday, October 24, 2014 at 6:15PM, the Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University...
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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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Black on Purpose: Race, Inheritance and Queer Reproduction
By Savannah Shange On the morning of my insemination, I stood chilly in a paper exam gown rechecking the sperm donor number on the side...
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Poem Suite: Becoming
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Not all Black women.
By Nikki Patin Fat? Nope. You’re too unhealthy. Poor? Nope. You don’t know how to manage your money. Light and got the nerve to say...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Bringing “All” to the Tent of Communal Healing
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes Inspired by the story of a Black enslaved woman, Margaret Garner, Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved explores the narrative of Sethe,...
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Video Feature: List of Demands: Because Existing is a Privilege by Nicole Shantè White
By Nicole Shantè White This creative visual addresses queer invisibility by encompassing the intricacies of the Gay Liberation manifesto and the Black Panther Party’s...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Date Rape and the Good Girl/Bad Girl Dichotomy
By Elena Carter In the hours after I was date-raped and had stumbled, still drunk, into the hotel room where I was staying with my...
