Search results for "aishah shahidah simmons"
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TFW at the Upcoming National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference
Several members of The Feminist Wire will be in San Juan, PR for the National Women's Studies Association annual conference this November! Will you? If...
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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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Better Off Dead: Black Women Speak to the United Nations CERD Committee
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Farah Tanis With each of our dead, we mourn the loss of a piece of ourselves and with each of our raped...
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Feminists We Love: Crista Noel, Africana Womanist
I first met Sister Crista Noel in August 2014 when we were in Geneva, Switzerland during the United Nations’ CERD (Committee on the Elimination of...
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Feminists We Love: Marissa Alexander
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Alisa Bierria Today is the first day of Standing Our Ground Week of Action (July 25 – August 1, 2014) in Jacksonville,...
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Who’s Still a Slave? Contemporary Black Women’s Rhetoric, Art, and Global Realities
By Janell Hobson “Are you still a slave?” That was the title of a forum on May 6, 2014 at the New School, featuring black...
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Dear Sister: The connections between sexual violence and feminism’s toxicity
By Mandy Van Deven & Lisa Factora-Borchers If you want to know the future of online feminism, you have to know its past. Since no...
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Rage and Meditation: Celebrating Toni Cade Bambara’s 75th Birthday
Word libation in honor of Toni Cade Bambara’s genius: The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of...
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One Thing: Toni Cade Bambara in the Speaking Everyday
Toni Cade Bambara is a life saver. Expert on Black women’s creative and spiritual practice, Akasha Gloria Hull says that Bambara’s enduring work The Salteaters induces...
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Afterword: Standing at the Lordean Shoreline
In the name of the known and unknown ancestors upon whose shoulders we stand… Today is the end of TFW’s global forum on Black Lesbian...
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Continuing the Celebration: Feminist Studies Celebrates Audre Lorde
Aishah Shahidah Simmons — my sister and comrade across miles and years, and the visionary behind the historic forum you’ve been reading for the...
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Feminists We Love: Gloria I. Joseph, Ph.D. [VIDEO]
A feminist is someone who is actively involved in the struggle against sexism. It’s as simple as that. That’s the bottom line. If you can’t...
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The Battle Against Misogyny at Spelman College
By Banah Gha As a student at Spelman College, I want to share our story of activist organizing against misogyny, misogynoir, as Moya Bailey puts...
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Collective, Reflective Conversation on Community, Liberation
by Sappho Fulton and Ness white This conversation was one part of my and Sappho’s joint multilayered and interdisciplinary performance assigned for Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s...
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Feminists We Love: Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, M.D., M.Sc. [VIDEO]
“We are feminist warriors, not perfectionists.” ~ Lisa Factora-Borchers ~ I begin with my sister Lisa Factora-Borchers’ quote to remind myself that striving for perfection is actually...
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Personal is Political: Reconciling Feeling and Thinking: A Call to Action in the Name of Difference
By Rachel Edwards As a student in the first graduate class taught by Aishah Shahidah Simmons dedicated to the study of Audre Lorde’s life and...
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Personal is Political: Audre Speaks: Lordean Lessons for a White Man
By Chris Rupertus The very first thing I say to my seniors on the very first day of the semester is this: “I have a...
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Dear Audre…Epistolary Poems for Our Lorde
By Lyndon K. Gill In early June of 2013, the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) convened its thirty-eighth annual conference in Grand Anse, Grenada. Just a...
