Violence
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Cynthia Wachenheim and the Impossible Terrain of Motherhood
By Alison Piepmeier As Keira Williams wrote here recently, Cynthia Wachenheim killed herself—and attempted to kill her son—because she felt that she’d been a terrible...
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Darnell L. Moore helps launch Ring the Bell: One million men. One million promises.
Ring the Bell: One million men. One million promises is a movement that encourages men across the globe to make concrete, actionable promises to combat violence against women. Launch...
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The Erased Women of the Wall: Settler Feminism and the Moroccan Quarter
By Jimmy Johnson Tel Aviv University Professor Orly Lubin asks about Israeli feminism, “Should feminists struggle for the implementation of equal rights in the army...
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Op-Ed: Putting Violence Against Women on ‘Display’
By Laura Odenthal At first glance Syria, India, and the U.S. have little in common. However, even with their potentially divisive geographic locations and ideological...
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Transforming rape culture from Steubenville to anywhere, USA
By Lisa Factora-Borchers I usually beam when Ohio makes news. Usually. In presidential election years, the inner grin shows its teeth when I hear the...
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If coherent light
Marina Abramović, in The Artist is Present, sat on a wooden chair in the spring of 2010 and made eye contact with anyone who cared...
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Race, Class, Masculinities and Violence against Women in South Africa
By Maria Hengeveld On 2 February a security guard found the 17 year old coloured (mixed descent) working class girl Anene Booysen on a construction...
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the tenth time out of ten
For Latasha Harlins For Amadou Diallo It is midnight in a year that is of no particular importance. Somewhere, a leading criminologist who spent all...
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Masculinity and Domestic Violence: A Conversation with Sally MacNichol and Quentin Walcott, Co-Executive Directors of CONNECT
Quentin: It’s interesting that Sally and I were invited to talk about masculinity and domestic violence; these are two issues that are often seen as...
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Feminist Anxiety about Domestic Violence Against Men
By Jennifer Gaboury The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was recently reauthorized after an unexpected delay — a delay that extends beyond, now routine, Republican obstructionism...
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The Shapings of Black Masculinities
The B52 bus picks up passengers on the corner of Gates and Lewis Avenue in the mostly working poor to middle class, black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood...
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Fear of the Sonic [Un]Known: Sonica Trauma and Black Masculinity in the Popular Imagination
By Regina Bradley Black masculinity is frequently framed within the context of visual culture. In other words, discourses about black masculinity often consider questions of:...
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Take the Shackles Off My Feet So I Can Dance*: A Call to End Gender Policing
By Robert Jones, Jr. Real men aren’t polite; politeness is for sissies. Body posturing is everything; real men don’t cross their legs at the knee...
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Special Report: The Feminist Wire goes to the Commission on the Status of Women, or the CSW Through My Virgin Eyes
By Special TFW Correspondent, Mazuba Haanyama Week one is rapidly drawing to an end and I feel like I have been hit by a train; a...
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Op-Ed: Solo Women Travelers: “Go Out Without Your Body”
By Alice Driver “The only thing left to say is, ‘If you don’t want anything to happen to you, go out without your body,’” instructed...
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Delhi: From Shame to Defiance
By Harsha Walia Two months ago, Jyoti Singh Pandey was brutally raped and beaten by a group of men in Delhi. She died a few...
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Taunts, Tweets, and Black Girl Genius
By Salamishah Tillet “Baby girl genius,” is what I muttered when I saw Quvenzhané Wallis shine bright on the television screen last Oscar Sunday night. Beaming...
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In Mourning
By Isaiah M. Wooden This…for Hadiya Pendleton. I used...