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#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Why Human Rights Don’t Work for Me
By Lydia Lopez Recently, I attended a panel called “Women’s Rights in the 21st Century: Fifteen Years After United Nations Security Council Resolution...
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Police Criminals and the Brutalization of Black Girls
In Alice Walker’s short story “The Flowers,” a little girl happens upon the decomposing body of a lynching victim while she is out picking flowers. ...
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Transgender Medicine: Medicare Access to What?
By Eric Plemons After a debilitating injury at work left Shane Smith permanently disabled, he joined the ranks of more than 50 million Americans who...
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A Review of Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s Blue Talk and Love by Sarah Mantilla Griffin
Review: Blue Talk and Love by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan “A Block Party in Blue Mood” by Sarah Mantilla Griffin We have been waiting for...
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2 poems by Sanchari Sur
Badaun Sisters 27 May, 2014, Katra Village, Badaun District, Uttar Pradesh, India Strange fruits found on dusty back roads in forgotten Indian villages. ...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Everyday Athlete
By Mariah Conn Start workout. My shoe feels loose. Glance behind. This hill is too steep. Nailed it. Oh, the tunnel. Better take out...
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Disciplining Black Queer Motherhood
By Shannon Nasah-Miller No, I am not over it. I hoped to have some of the events of Memorial Day weekend washed away. My wife...
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TFW on Break July 2015
In the spirit of self-care and sustainability, The Feminist Wire Editorial Collective will be breaking for the month of July, beginning July 1st. We will be back in...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Forum Submissions on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival DUE 6/1/15
PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS!! TODAY: JUNE 1, 2015 Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the College Feminisms Forum! Please continue to share...
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Medicare’s New Coverage for “Transsexual Surgery” Relies on Dated Notions of Gender
By Eric Plemons In 1981, the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) created a Medicare National Coverage Determination (NCD) that declared, “the surgical procedures...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Deeper Look: Exploring the Violent Homophobia of Jamaica
By Felicia Garcia One afternoon, I was driving to work and I had the reggae station playing on Pandora. Buju Banton’s “Boom Bye-Bye” came on....
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2 poems by Rebekah Bergman
To Make a Woman into a Monster First you must strip her of a nonessential body part. You could replace this with...
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Cisgender FemmeNist reflections on Trans* Justice: Moving from Adoration to Action
By Kari Lerum In my Sophomore year of college a straight-identified masculine-presenting cisgender heterosexual guy-friend surprised me by saying: “I want to be you...
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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis & Aishah Shahidah Simmons to Visit Berlin
Heidi R. Lewis, TFW Associate Editor and Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College, will teach her course entitled Hidden Spaces, Hidden...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A History of Lipstick
By Zoe Handler I fall in love for the first time. My partner sighs when my kisses leave faint red lipstick marks on their...
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#BlackChurchSex: Taking the Harness Off the Mouths of the Oppressed
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.” –Revelations 12:11 “Are you sure...
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Campus Rape Survivors Need Policy Change, Not Trigger Warnings
By Maggie Hardy I write as a rape survivor, and like any victim, I can assure you that triggers are out there. If higher education...
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Beyond Saying Her Name
#SayHerName: Toward a Gender Inclusive Analysis of State Violence report’s release is timed to support mobilization for a National Day of Action on Black Women...
