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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Is Shonda Rhimes a Feminist?
By Alexander Stoffel Season five of Shonda Rhimes’s wildly popular show Scandal drew approximately eight million viewers per episode. What does it mean to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When You Renounced the Catholic Church (or sex with you)
By Stevie Lynn Hunter I remember the first time your fingers were inside of me, but nails inside of me have always bothered me...
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THANKSGIVING MEAL by H. Melt
THANKSGIVING MEAL i arrive at my parents house for my first thanksgiving with my girlfriend in the oven is the turkey on the...
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Dear Friend of The Feminist Wire, Collective care and support is a feminist practice we at The Feminist Wire (TFW) work to embody. Today, we are writing...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Screws, Servos, and Sexism: How Men Almost Made Me Quit Engineering
By Jordan Prochnow During my sophomore year in high school, I joined the robotics team. The majority of the team consisted of mostly boys;...
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2 poems by Martha Silano
Ode to Frida Kahlo’s Eyebrows Cult of the brow ascending like a condor, of refusal to bow to the whimsy of busy tweezers. From...
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Dreaming of a (Feminist) Revolution
By Zillah Eisenstein This is an offering for after “Super-Tuesday’s” outcome…when many of us are beginning to think that we will have to vote for...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, (F)Act of Blackness: The Politics of Mixed Race Identity
By Jazlyn Andrews “That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and...
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The Night I Met Gregory Corso, or Go Pump Yourself by M.J. Tenerelli
The Night I Met Gregory Corso, or Go Pump Yourself I am early for Dinner With the handsome misogynist lawyer Who is much older...
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Black Women Reclaim the Conversation on Racism Worldwide
The last two years have seen an upsurge of highly-visible demonstrations and growing movements against racism across the world, from #BlackLivesMatter in the United States...
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The Funniest Thing You Ever Heard by Michelle Lewis
The Funniest Thing You Ever Heard Ha Ha 1: Animul When Animul asked me to take our flames & make them into one I...
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Diana: impending by Ian Ellasante
Diana: impending one month with no shot and Diana is calling to me again one month in which the girl is unbraiding herself into...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Repression and Inequality in the California State University Health Clinic
By Chris Arreola Last year, I visited the San Francisco State University (SF State) Student Health Services center to receive testing for sexually transmitted...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Chemistry Class
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A Series of (Un)related Events: Forty-Five Years After The Black Woman: an Anthology* by Marquis Bey
A Series of (Un)related Events: Forty-Five Years After The Black Woman: an Anthology* Marquis Bey It starts without context. Cast as insane, volatile,...
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To each their own?
By Celeste Orr When I speak of the discrimination women and the LGBTQI communities face or when I am asked to discuss my doctoral...
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Poem: “Venus”
by Megan Spencer sunday morning on the highway after a breakfast of sweet potatoes and coffee we drove into a swarm of bees....
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Poem: “Fatima Cries”
By Brian Burmeister As she watches her hair fall to her feet. Her father speaks as he watches . ...
