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On the Record: the Right’s Document Fetish
Academics, especially those in the humanities, cannot escape bad news. We hear of fresh budget cuts on a weekly basis. In the last few weeks...
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Breaking News: Osama Bin Laden is Dead
The man known as Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda, is dead. Last night President Obama confirmed that Bin Laden was shot to death...
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Rock Struck: Obama and the Hard Place of Paper
After noise and nonsense from the political right, the President of the United States, had to show his papers. The fact of a black man...
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A New Branch of the United States’ Miscegenated Family Tree: Lynn Nottage’s "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark"
By Soyica Colbert Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark opened at the Second Stage Theatre on April 6,...
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WISCONSIN: Why It Matters
By Joy Schulman I arrived in Madison in September 1969 to begin my junior year at the University of Wisconsin. Moving from Newark, New Jersey,...
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A Message from the Editors
The Feminist Wire appreciates and respects the many voices that contributed to last week’s events. We are particularly pleased with the expeditious, cross-gendered, cross-generational, and...
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Between Love and Duty
By Rachel Broadwater On March 10, 2011 activist Quannell X spearheaded a rally in connection to the brutal gang rape of an 11-year-old Latina girl...
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“Love that Girl” but Hate “those” Boys?
By Ulli K. Ryder “Love that Girl” is a new show on TVOne, starring Tatyana Ali who is best known for her role as Ashley...
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Shayne Lee, Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between These Thighs: An Open Letter
Since writing my review of Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, entitled “Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes,” originally written for Palimpsest: A...
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Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes
Reprinted from Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, with SUNY Press. Update: Final copy now available in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender...
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Faux Feminist Men and Other Figments (Real and Imagined)
Last spring, I offered a “Feminist Theory” course, and a startling thing happened. More men signed up for the class than women. When I saw...
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Reproductive Tourism
A recent article in the New York Times describes the discovery of birth houses in San Gabriel, California, where “relatively wealthy” Chinese women were stealthily...
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Speaking Truth to Power: “You Are What You Eat”
By Ashante Reese The buzz surrounding the name of the recently-opened Fat Ho Burgers in Waco has spread beyond the small town in central Texas. ...
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Clarity (On Clarence Thomas and the Worth of Black Life)
Yesterday, my dad sent me an article from Slate Magazine about a Supreme Court decision written by Clarence Thomas that effectively argued that a black man,...
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“Eating the Other” (at Fat Ho Burgers): Desire and Resistance (Remixed)
At the corner of 11th Street and Ross Avenue in Waco, Texas sits a new eatery: Fat Ho Burgers (or, as some like to call...
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Regrets: Professor Manning Marable
The editors of TFW note with great sadness the passing of Manning Marable, director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia...
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Prescription for Relief
Sex-Crimes-Exhibition-Press-Image-Jan-2011 By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman A few weeks ago I attended an exhibit at the Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn, called “Sex Crimes against...
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Going Postal: The Right’s Sleight of Hand
Most of us remember the widespread atmosphere of optimism that followed Barack Obama’s victory over John McCain. Many also remember statements from some groups on...