Violence
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Op-Ed: Illegible Pain: Palestinian Grief and Israeli TV
By Yehuda Sharim Palestinian women never cry when they appear on Israeli TV. On news broadcasts, the same scene repeats itself: the women’s heads invariably covered...
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TFW and Black Lives Matter
This past weekend members of the Editorial Collective journeyed to Ferguson, MO with “Black Lives Matter Ride (BLMR),” a national advocacy effort organized in the spirit of the...
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Normalized but Not Normal
(Editors’ Note: the introduction to the series on #everydaysexualviolence is here. It contains a detailed trigger warning.) Pia Guerrero I lived on a tree-lined street,...
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Corporal Punishment
(Editors’ Note: The introduction to the series on #everydaysexualviolence is here. It contains a detailed trigger warning.) Myongsuk Shin I grew up in a small...
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Learning #EverydaySexualViolence: Women Telling Our Stories
By Stephanie Gilmore and Pia Guerrero We at The Feminist Wire, as well as so many of us across the United States and around the world,...
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All Women Have Stories Like These
(Editors’ Note: The introduction to the series on #everydaysexualviolence is here. It contains a detailed trigger warning.) Anonymous As a blogger who happens to be...
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Fearing the Knife
(Editors’ Note: The introduction to the series on #everydaysexualviolence is here. It contains a detailed trigger warning.) Melanie Klein My early childhood was idyllic in...
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Gendered Violence Wasn’t the Problem; Talking about It Was.
Soraya Chemaly (Editors’ Note: The introduction to the series on #everydaysexualviolence is here. It contains a detailed trigger warning.) There are stories girls never tell. We...
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(Bitter)Sweet Home Alabama
(Editors’ Note: The introduction to the series on #everydaysexualviolence is here. It contains a detailed trigger warning.) Alabama summers brought intense heat (and they still do)...
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Call for Submissions: Hands Up Don’t Shoot
Hands Up Don’t Shoot: Collected Essays/Stories on the Racialization of Murder Co-edited by: Stanley Doyle-Wood, Bedour Alagraa , and Gurpreet Singh Johal *Revised Call...
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Personal is Political: On Impact We
LieDieI was in 9th grade, 14, at the start of this story, 5 years past my first period, past my first training bra, and a...
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Hoods Up, Hands Up: Against the White to Bear Arms
By Lauren Heintz The images of militarized police in Ferguson rightly bring to mind the trickle down of military devices to state police, as Rania...
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Poems for Ferguson: Vanessa Huang and Aya de Leon
Two poets consider Michael Brown, Ferguson, MO, and the crucial ways in which Black Life Matters. How Do I Love Thee? A love...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Ferguson’s Protest and Its Occupation
By Vanessa Lynn Lovelace On Saturday, August 9, 2014 at around noon, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Eyewitnesses...
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She’s In: Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperial Feminists Against War
By Zillah Eisenstein Hillary Rodham Clinton (un)officially entered the 2016 presidential race in her interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine. Much has been...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Just in Case
By Megan Koopman When you become a woman and your breasts start to show in a way that makes vice principals shake and neighborhood...
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So You’re Horrified By What Happened in Ferguson: What Are You Doing About It?
If you are still trying to admit defeat in the face of racism, you aren't reading enough people of color. Until they give up, you...
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Elementary Feminisms: Two Poems by Lorean Galarza
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