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Blue State Blues
By Kavita Das In January of 2008, I found myself threading my way out of the crowded living room of a friend’s Brooklyn apartment, where...
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The Government Shutdown, Rape and Other Extortions of Assets
By Farah Tanis For many in this movement to end rape and address the intersecting, crosscutting and causal factors that perpetuate it, a government shutdown...
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The Postconventional Ethics of Chelsea Manning
By John Stoltenberg At this moment in U.S. history, there may be no nonelected figure in the public eye whose ethics are both more respected...
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Miss America is Indian-American: Yay, I think. Or not.
By Archana A. Pathak Two weeks ago, an Indian-American woman won Miss America, and the ensuing days elicited varying commentaries on this “historic moment.” It...
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#Intersectionality for Racists: On Miss America
By Sayantani DasGupta Dear Racist Tweeters of America, First and foremost, let me thank you on behalf of feminists of color everywhere, not to mention...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: President Crow: Take A Stand Against Rape Culture at ASU
By Sun Devils Against Sexual Assault President Michael Crow, Last week, we learned Executive Vice President and Provost Betty Phillips will be leaving Arizona State...
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For the Love of Freedom: Writing, Radical Praxis and the Transformative Power of a Slave’s Words
By Ernest L. Gibson, III When Frederick Douglass wrote “My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which I am writing...
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An Open Letter to Our Sister, CeCe McDonald
By Brothers Writing to Live Dear CeCe, This letter to you, sister, is past due. We are late to the struggle. And for that we...
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A Trip to Richmond
By Starita Smith Richmond, Virginia is the ultimate recycling of the human experience. It is like an urban trompe l’oeil in which places where atrocities...
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Op-Ed: When A Mother Chooses the Pump
By Swati Marquez Three days after I gave birth — following 54 hours of labor, including eighteen hours of IV fluids that left me (and...
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Lee Daniels’ Double Consciousness
By Frank Roberts In a formative scene that occurs about midway through Lee Daniels’ The Butler, audiences are presented with imagery from two widely divergent events...
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Deliberate Gaze: Trayvon Martin as Interloper, Outsider, Other
By Lillie Anne Brown A few years ago, an African American comedian joked about having to move in with his mother because he was down on...
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Op-Ed: Black Elders Need to Stop Demonizing Black Youth
By Aaron Talley Sometimes, I shudder to think that many of the Black elders fighting against Trayvon Martin’s death might have actually held the same...
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Fruitvale Station: Some Reactions
OMAR RICKS I feel helpless after watching Fruitvale Station (2013, dir. Ryan Coogler). I feel like this hits too close to home. Literally. The nursery...
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Whose (In)Justice? Whose Tears? Whose Peace?
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing in the hopes of coalition building: civil rights/sex/gender/economic/environmental justice movements. And I am writing while remembering the Central Park...
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Op-Ed: How to be Black in the Age of Obama, George Zimmerman, and Paula Deen: Notes from Summer, 2013
Welcome to the impossible future. White people are talking about race. Sometimes, they’ll even talk about racism. Some will say the word “racism” hesitantly,...
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“We Ball Harder”: Talking About Sports, Race, Gender, and Pleasure
By Tamura A. Lomax, David J. Leonard, Darnell L. Moore, Heather Laine Talley, and Monica J. Casper A few months ago, at the exhilarating height...
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In the Aftermath of the Trial
In the wake of the George Zimmerman trial, The Feminist Wire hosted a weeklong forum featuring a variety of essays and perspectives. We felt it...
