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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Bloody Cage
By David Rojas Tony picked up Carlos at approximately 11:30 pm on a chilly, snowy December night. Holding onto the hose that would help incinerate...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Let Your Anger Consume the World, Not You
By Samantha Pevear I lie on my bed with my legs against the wall, feet arched towards the ceiling. I begin banging my heels into...
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Queer African Reader: A Review
By Rita Nketiah and Rose Afriyie In the past decade, African sexual minorities have received increasing attention. 2013 alone saw numerous headlines most notably around...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Girl(s) with the Pearl Earring(s)
By Renna Gottlieb I’m sitting in a small dining hall at Connecticut College, surrounded by about fifty of my student peers. My school is located...
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3 poems by Valerie Bandura
Vagina and Cross-Cocks For their flag, ……….a sliced pair of white boxers, and on it, ………………………………………………………………in marmalade, the diamond shape of a vagina...
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New Category Coming Soon: Personal is Political
This column honors personal narrative as a source of politics, analysis, pedagogy, and survival. Thus, in keeping with the feminist legacy of naming the private...
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TFW Available for Women’s History Month!
March is Women’s History Month! And The Feminist Wire is available for speaking engagements. If you follow our work, you know that we serve a...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Understanding My Juicy Thighs, Thanks to Jenny from the Block
By Jamie McKaie The biography sat on the bookshelf of my fourth grade classroom, as if patiently waiting for me. The bell rang. Ring. I ran for...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Conversations With My Abuelita
By Isabel Hibbard I like to think that I have helped my abuelita cope with the pain of her past, especially during her loneliest years...
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Feminist Theory: A College Forum
Last semester, I taught a course in feminist theory. The primary goal of this course was to have students read feminist theories, but with a...
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Moving On…(with Addendum of January 9, 2014)
On December 20, 2013, Adele Wilde-Blavatsky published this essay in HuffPo. Surprisingly, she referred to events that occurred in 2012, from which we’ve long moved...
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Katniss and Anastasia: Mismatched Heroines in a Shared Hell
By Lucy Berrington Why does America’s confused cultural gaze keep landing on two such mismatched literary heroines as Katniss Everdeen and Anastasia Steele? One is...
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2 poems by Geffrey Davis
Unfledged What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? — Robert Hayden Weekends too my father...
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3 poems by Trish Salah
notes toward dropping out (March 1995) This is where I ceased— Not to be too obvious, or in mutation, or distilled, transmogrification ...
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Open Letter to Presiding Bishop-Elect Joseph W. Walker III and the “By Invitation Only” Attendees of the Inaugural Meeting of the SHIFT
Religion is a site of both freedom and oppression. The Black Church in particular, is a significant source of meaning making and marginalization in the...
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Two Poems by Gala Mukomolova
By Gala Mukmolova Girl-talk * I’ve really been working on my orgasmic meditation, my ex tells me. If the instructor touches my clit in...
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4 poems by Sonya Renee
A Poem For The Girl Who Solicited Money To Get To the National Poetry Slam (I assume by plane) Because ”I am only 20...
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An Open Letter to My Transgender Brothers on World AIDS Day 2013
By Kai M. Green Dear Kinfolk: Today is World Aids Day. Today, I remember those who we have lost. I remember the ancestors we have...
