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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
#eulogizingaretha: A Rose Is Still A Rose
#eulogizingaretha: The Queen Saved My Soul
#eulogizingaretha: A Natural Black Woman: Aretha Franklin’s #BlackGirlMagic
#eulogizingaretha: Her life. Her love for us. Our love for her.
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Op Ed: A Curse Be Upon It
By Ankita Anand For years now I have been looking to enrich my vocabulary of swear words with no troublesome arrows in the quiver. There...
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Black Freedom Fighters in Ferguson: Some of us are queer
Not all of the freedom fighters are Black men with masculine swag and pedigree. Not all of them are cisgender and straight and able-bodied. Some...
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TFW’s Heather Laine Talley Releases Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance
Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance By Heather Laine Talley In the twenty-first century, appearance matters seemingly more than ever before. At...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Slamming the Door: An Analysis of Elsa (Frozen)
By Shira Feder The Disney Princess franchise presents misogynist and terrifying fairy tales for profit. These stories enforce patriarchal views towards women that instate an...
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Editorial: In Solidarity with Anita Sarkeesian and All Women Who Speak Out
This morning, we, along with many others, learned that feminist blogger and media critic Anita Sarkeesian has been forced to cancel a scheduled talk at...
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Poem Suite: Shards
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Personal is Political: Can the Subaltern Catcall?
If we wish to sincerely practice intersectionality in our feminism, then we must look with eyes unclouded by idolization at the white feminists of the...
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CFP: A Forum on “Climate Change and Feminist Environmentalisms”
By Cristina Awadalla, Piper Coutinho-Sledge, Alison Criscitiello, and Sonalini Sapra As guest editors of this forum, we created the theme with the intent to create a...
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Black on Purpose: Race, Inheritance and Queer Reproduction
By Savannah Shange On the morning of my insemination, I stood chilly in a paper exam gown rechecking the sperm donor number on the side...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Coffee
By Shelby Simonsen My boyfriend never liked coffee. The rich, bitter, earthy flavor didn’t jive with his tongue....
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Poem Suite: Monsters
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Are You Willing to Put “5” on TFW?
The Feminist Wire just hit 50! We are so excited that more than 50,000 people have liked our Facebook page, which means thousands of readers have access to...
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Personal is Political: The Myth of Diversity and Critical Thinking in American Academia
American ideals about meritocracy and “pulling yourself up by your boot straps” are myths. They simply do not exist. Education in a capitalist system is...
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A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement by Alicia Garza
By Alicia Garza I created #BlackLivesMatter with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of my sisters, as a call to action for Black people after...
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“Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!”: Gesture, Choreography, and Protest in Ferguson
The bodily act of the hands up don’t shoot protests takes those same bodies that are surveilled, disciplined, controlled, and killed and infuses them with...
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TFW’s Mecca Jamilah Sullivan reads at All About Skin celebration of women writers of color
Saturday, October 25th, 2014 5:00-7:30pm at La Casa Azul Bookstore 143 E 103rd St, New York, NY 10029 ...
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#FergusonFridays: Not all of the Black freedom fighters are men: An Interview with Black Women on the Front line in Ferguson
By Kristin Braswell As we marched from West Florissant to the Ferguson Police Department on that sweltering day in August, a bevy of voices carried...
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How Many Black Histories We Still Don’t Know: An Interview With Simone Leigh
I am walking north on Buffalo Avenue from Crown Heights toward Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, passing corner stores and apartment complexes, looking for the Weeksville Heritage...
