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Afterword: On Voting
Over this past week, TFW Collective members and guest writers have had their say about electoral politics, generally, and voting, specifically. Over and over again,...
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Afterword: On Violence
Of particular critical interest to us are social and political phenomena that block, negate, or limit the satisfaction of goods or ends that humans, especially...
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Violence Knows No Gender
By Xoaquima Díaz I never thought I would end up in an abusive relationship. Not only because I had always considered myself smarter than that, above...
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Africanized: A Story
She swung at me with her open left hand. I had been deeply ensconced in my work—as workers must be—and I didn’t execute quickly enough....
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Editor's Commentary: On Violence
How can we be ethically opposed to some forms of violence while being in favor of others? This question was on my mind the day...
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“Black Spaghetti;” or, “Spaghetti al Nero di Seppia”
By John Murillo B—- gasps into a waking death as the sun plagues the room with good-morning shade. Wordlessly, black flesh creaks upward, bending at...
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Introducing: Theresa Runstedtler
Theresa Runstedtler is Assistant Professor of American Studies in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and was recently a Mellon...
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In Praise of the Never Straight: Cheryl Clarke
In 1982, Black Lesbian Feminist Poet and Scholar Cheryl Clarke wrote a letter to her fellow Black Feminist Poet June Jordan: “No there is nothing...
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"Praying Away the Gay" Gets the Smackdown
By Sikivu Hutchinson By banning so-called gay teen conversion therapy with his approval of SB 1172, California Governor Jerry Brown smacked down the forces of...
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Changes to TFW's Submission Policy
The Feminist Wire is a collective. We are a group of people who all have day jobs and/or schooling, partners and families, activist work, and...
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Introducing: Sophia Azeb
Sophia Azeb is an Egyptian-Palestinian anarcha-feminist teacher, writer, and organizer pursuing her PhD in American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Sophia’s...
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Introducing: Tanisha C. Ford
Tanisha C. Ford, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer, intellectual, and activist designing her own brand of “Haute Couture Intellectualism.” She is currently writing a book, Liberated Threads:...
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Women Fight for Their Rights in the New Tunisia
In Tunisia, a country that has been labeled “the most secular and progressive of the transitioning countries,” that took part in the Arab Spring uprisings, deep...
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Death of an Atheist Friend: Let the Faith Pimping Begin
The American death industry pimps heaven hard, squeals like a stuck pig about redemption, then tasks the faithful with collecting the bloody dividends. For the...
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South Sudan Faces Severe Health Care Gap
South Sudan is the world’s newest nation, and celebrated its first birthday on Monday, July 10th. The health of its people is in sharp contrast...
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Extension! TFW Forum on Muslim Feminisms
Editor’s note: We’ve extended our deadline for submissions to July 15th. The Feminist Wire (TFW) is seeking articles from Muslim women, men, and allies on their...
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The Father
The hands of the clocks turn until there are no hands anymore The years unfold: work, work, work the numbers on the paycheck...
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Central Park Saturday
Until I was about six years old, my father and I had a ritual of spending Saturday mornings in Central Park together. My mother was...