Don't Miss
The Lemonade Reader: Black Feminists Read Beyoncé
THE MAKING OF A NEW ANTI-RACIST FEMINIST WORKING CLASS; #Feminism4the99
Black Feminism and Black Moses, Part II
On #survivingrkelly: deconstruction, accountability, and a #networkofpredation
A Commitment to/with/for The Damned
The Time Has Come for White Women to Move Beyond Lip Service: Toward an Anti-Racist Professional Ethics for White Women’s Studies Directors
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.
-
3 poems by Arielle Greenberg
Who I’d Like to Meet I am on tiptoe scanning our tallest bookshelves for something to pack to read on the plane. I am...
-
Op-Ed: Feminism and the PIC: Why “Add-Incarceration-and-Stir” Doesn’t Cut It
By Jeanne Flavin and Laura Huss Many mainstream feminist and prochoice groups have been reluctant to adopt intersectional approaches and to declare common cause with...
-
A Latina’s Perspective on MBK
On July 10, women of color spoke out on President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) policy initiative, in a webinar sponsored by the African American...
-
13 Challenges Legislators Underestimate when Fighting Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Minors
By Aya de Leon Concern about sex trafficking of underage girls is on the rise throughout the US. Various states are considering or have passed legislation...
-
The Babies on Facebook
By Susan Harlan Today, the babies have no say. The babies are abroad. They’re in Rome, or on the top of a mountain (in a...
-
Op-Ed: All the News Fit for White Men: Why Journalism is Failing America
By David Cuillier If you want to know what kinds of news Americans consume in their daily lives, just ask a white man. He probably picked...
-
From Corpses, Artworks and Dreams of by Raha Namy
The novel Corpses, Arts and Dreams of is a triptych that hopes to tell the story/history of a people of a place and time, from...
-
The War on Women in My Hometown
We at The Feminist Wire, and many people around the United States, were shocked but not surprised by the Supreme Court decision on Hobby Lobby....
-
J. Crew Is Into African Fashion Now?
To kickoff swimsuit season, J. Crew announced the launch of its Bantu African swimwear line. Perhaps best known for its summer in the Hamptons look,...
-
Feminists We Love: Jessica Luther ~ Activist, commentator, and change agent
I am not sure when and where I first came in contact with Jessica W. Luther and her work, but ever since that moment I...
-
La Femenista Presence
By Cynthia Estremera In college I was surrounded by white feminists and white feminism. I was co-President of our feminist group “The Third Wave” and...
-
Poetry by Sarah Gonzales
fairy tales 2 I wish I could spit rhymes with the ease of a liberated tongue, relay my stories minus the empty hours of...
-
Homeland Security Goes to School
By Nicole Nguyen On a rather dreary day in April 2013, I found myself holed up inside of a cardboard box on a closet shelf some...
-
Feminists We Love: Yara Sallam
Editors’ Note (July 1, 2014): The Feminist Wire stands in solidarity with our sisters in Egypt. On Saturday (June 21, 2014), Yara Sallam was arrested by...
-
Tales from the Kraka Tower
By Aphrodite Kocięda and Kyle Romano Tales from the Kraka Tower is a grassroots web-series that satirizes “diversity” in academia. What makes our series different from others...
-
A Statement on the Hobby Lobby Ruling
The Feminist Wire finds the Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby to be a gross violation of women’s fundamental freedoms. SCOTUS has determined,...
-
In Solidarity with Egyptian Feminists
On Saturday (June 21, 2014), Yara Sallam, featured in TFW last year as a Feminist We Love, was arrested by Egyptian authorities while participating in a peaceful demonstration calling...
-
Astonishing Embodiments: Poetry and Feminism from Molly Sutton Kiefer
By Molly Sutton Kiefer I remember that heady time of my undergraduate years when I was so anxious to change the world–that requisite minor in...
