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A Commitment to/with/for The Damned
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The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
#eulogizingaretha: A Reflection Upon a Musical Selection: “Mary, Don’t You Weep”
#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
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#eulogizingaretha: Her life. Her love for us. Our love for her.
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Transfiguring Masculinities in Black Women’s Studies
By C. Riley Snorton Although there continues to be controversy regarding whether men can create black feminist scholarship, numerous black feminist theorists have argued for...
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Sluts on Parade
By Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Brown University The Slutwalk is sweeping the world – women and men, march and shout chants, carrying banners...
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Views on the West Wing (I)
It is fair to say that the Obama Presidency has set my mind awash in currents of confusion: I confess—I don’t know what the man...
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The United States of Incarceration
By LaToyyia Knight-Gonzales and Monica J. Casper America has a prison problem. And this problem does not involve a shortage of jails. Nor is it...
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Featured Writer: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
from “A Strange People” We-Chrissie will let the white men see and touch our difference. She will smile for doctors and handlers like Mrs. Susan’s...
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The Defiant One: Euzhan Palcy
By Trica Danielle Keaton For Joanne and David Burke, with thanks and appreciation. Marlon Brando, Susan Sarandon, Donald Sutherland, Gérard Depardieu and the controversial American...
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On the Death of Osama bin Laden
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman My son asked me last night if I were “happy” that Osama bin Laden had been killed. He expressed his own sense...
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Birds of Different Feathers
By Patricia Friedrich I have to confess that it was with some trepidation that I took my family to see the new animated movie Rio....
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Spotlight Poet: Nicole Sealey
Underperforming Sonnet Overperforming ————–FOR MARILYN NELSON This poem, this time, is the best idea / I’ve ever had—the best in history / even, the best...
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Thoughts on Feminist Critique (Real and Faux): An Addendum to “Faux Feminist Men”
Due to the high readership, commentary on, and sharing of “Faux Feminist Men and Other Figments (Real and Imagined)” by TFW collective member Heather Talley, we...
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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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Featured Poet: Donika Ross
The Yard On the grounds between history and science, Nelida and I walk, two slips of girls, lovely analogies of each other. See our books,...
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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...