Women of Color
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Flanked by Rappers and TV Anchors @ AAPI Music and Media
By Celine Parreñas Shimizu Typically, academics are neither seen as relaxed like rappers nor glamorous like news anchors. So when invited to be on a panel...
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The First White Amerikkkan Man
By Joe Pullen Since before Donald Trump was Donald Trump, it’s been a fairly simple proposition: Groom them aggressively, taking a little more each time,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Legislating Islamophobia From Villaneuve-Loubet to Washington
By Amy Oldfield Women of Villeneuve-Loubet, a coastal town just South of Nice, France, had a reason to celebrate on August 26, 2016 as...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Do You Recognize Me Now?
By Joy De Guzman On my first days of pre-school a parent asked me with a smile “what are you?” At a time when...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART THREE
By Lina Chhun In this post-inauguration period, we are living with what may seem to be a very keen tension—that tension between the dangers of...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART TWO
By Lina Chhun A few months after returning from dissertation work abroad, I attended a talk with Professor Aisha Finch at UCLA. The talk expanded...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART ONE
By Lina Chhun Today I sat in my car and I waited for the sun to set. I can’t remember the last time I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Paying in Order to Perform Labor
By Kylie Nicole Gemmell During my last quarter as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to create, facilitate, and teach my own course. This...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Disbanding with White Patriarchy, Embracing Ourselves Despite Our Differences
By J.T. Roane The poison that is white patriarchy, has seduced all. It is like what Black feminist scholar Vivian Gordon called in a different...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Imposter to Entitlement
By Diksha Bijlani hey, my mother pulled off a solo raising two kids from the ground up her son a little too much like his...
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Women for Women: Why we should be supporting each other, instead of tearing each other down
By Jordan Washington A few months back, there was an article on Entertainment Weekly about Chloe G. Moretz’s comments towards Kim Kardashians’ naked selfie that...
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Beyond Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire: Reclaiming Images of Black Women
Who will sing a Black girl’s song? During the spring 2015 semester, a group of students at Colorado College, where I am Associate Director and...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Renewed Call to Action: Argentina Speaks Out against Femicide
By Fiona Gilligan It is Monday, 6 June 2016. A year since the inaugural march, organizers of the mass social-media-born movement #NiUnaMenos renewed their...
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Becoming Each Other’s Harvest
Let us envision a society that does not empower the carceral state to intervene in the affairs of our families and communities, but instead builds...
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Who is Accountable to the Black Latinx Child?
Content Notice: This article is part of the #LoveWITHAccountability forum on The Feminist Wire. The purpose of this forum and the #LoveWITHAccountability project is to prioritize child sexual abuse,...
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It’s the Whispers
Current activism about everything from the school-to-prison pipeline to police violence notes that our Black children are deemed older than we really are, with knowledge...
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Self Love with Accountability
Being in community with other survivors and expressing myself artistically has been critical in my healing journey. Community helps to end the stigma and shame...
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The Coiled Spring First Grader Deep Inside: Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice
The discrediting of black girls’ experiences starts in preschool and kindergarten, where they are taught to endlessly check, police and second guess themselves. It’s symbolized...
