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Black Lesbian Resistance and Resilience

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We regret the passing of Geraldine Ferraro, who died on Saturday, 24 March, at the age of 75. In 1984, Congresswoman Ferraro made history when,...
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By Hortense Spillers on March 25, 2011
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Special Message from the Editors: Welcome, Dr. Tamura Lomax
By Hortense Spillers on March 22, 2011
The Feminist Wire is proud to welcome Dr. Tamura Lomax aboard! Congratulations to Tamura for a brilliantly successful dissertation defense at Vanderbilt University on Monday,...
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By Monica J. Casper on March 20, 2011
It’s a hot, muggy day in London. There’s a yellow haze around the city. You’ve been trawling through shops in Covent Garden for hours with...
Where Are the Radicals?: Islam(ophobia) and Black Urban Politics
By admin on March 16, 2011
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman Who is it that said the more things change, the more they stay the same? If the last decade is any harbinger...
Special Message from the Editors
By Hortense Spillers on March 15, 2011
We are delighted that our colleague and Editorial Collective member—Nahum Chandler—and his family—his wife Ayumi and their son Aaron—are doing fine. Residents of Kyoto, Japan,...
The Banality Of Dehumanization: The Case of Infant Gendering
By Heather Laine Talley on March 14, 2011
Target is now in the business of selling sex toys or, to be more precise, cock rings. I know this because on a recent trip...
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The Wrong One, Let In
By Guest Contributor on March 11, 2011
On Friday, March 4th, Connecticut police finally arrested the infamous “East Coast Rapist.” Now known as 39-year old unemployed truck driver Aaron H. Thomas, the...
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By Hortense Spillers on March 10, 2011
It is even past my bed time at 3 o’clock, Thursday morning, 10 March 2011. But if we’re reading this right, we all have miles...
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By Guest Contributor on March 9, 2011
Steven Barnes, our welcomed guest contributer, is a professional writer, lecturer, coach and television writer, juggling the challenges between each and maintaining both a blog of...
A World of Contradictions
By Guest Contributor on March 8, 2011
Since security forces and militia loyal to Libya’s Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi attacked groups of peaceful protestors on February 17th, widespread bloodshed, disappearances, fear and anger...
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By Alexis Pauline Gumbs on March 7, 2011
Last week the United States Supreme Court voted eight to one in favor of a definition of free speech that includes hate speech on what...
"If You Scared Just Say It": Black and Queer with Nothing to Prove- A Preview of Shirlette and the Dynamite Brothers
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs on March 3, 2011
Play the song before it plays you. Turn it on before game recognizes game. Touch the wound inside before it heals. This is the...
Our Reproductive Dystopia: Or, WTF?
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The Pence Amendment: Waging War on the Poor
By Guest Contributor on March 1, 2011
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By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman A new billboard went up in SoHo last week, placed at a busy intersection on Sixth Avenue a few feet...
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By Hortense Spillers on February 25, 2011
In the world of newspapers, “beneath the fold” apparently means that the feature bears only secondary interest or importance compared to what is situated above...
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By Hortense Spillers on February 23, 2011
More GRITtv “The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which...

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