Search results for "Trayvon Martin"
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Instant Messages: On White Womanhood, Fear of Black Men, and Changing Our Minds
By Abe Louise Young because because because as far as I can tell less than a thousand children playing in the garden of a thousand...
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Racial Cowardice, White Denial: Post Racial Delusions in the Era of Zimmerman
The killing of Trayvon Martin, the trial of George Zimmerman, and the aftermath illustrate how much race matters. Yet the response from many, particularly white...
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White Female Jurors and Florida Justice
By Zillah Eisenstein I am white and female, like the almost-white jury that acquitted Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin. But I am also an anti-racist...
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Conclusion: Shakur or, a Primer on the Difference between Morality and Ethics
for LC and TD All that you meet are thieves: to Athens go, Break open shops; nothing can you steal, But thieves do lose it...
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An Open Love Note to My Son: On Mourning, Love, and Black Motherhood
By Christen Smith Raising Black children – female and male – in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If...
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Assata: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
by Rizvana Bradley The trial scene that concludes the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God glimpses a specific form of panoptic enclosure that has given...
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Celebrating Assata Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition
Assata Shakur’s political thought and activism has captured the imagination of artists, activists, women and men around the world. As African activists, we have learned from...
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Reading Rachel
By Rashna Batliwala Singh “Are you listening?” Rachel Jeantel asked defense attorney Don West in the trial of George Zimmerman, as he seemed to turn and...
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Wall of Shame: George Zimmerman’s Defense Team et al.
Let us be clear at the outset: here at The Feminist Wire, we’re fans of the Sixth Amendment and believe that everybody deserves a fair...
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In Conversation: On the Landmark SCOTUS Decisions, Single-Variable Politics and Movement Forward
By Timothy Patrick McCarthy and Darnell L. Moore Darnell: Tim, You have spoken and written publicly about the need—particularly on the part of white and economically privileged...
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Is a picture worth a 1000 words? Race and the politics of mourning
Hank Willis Thomas A couple weeks back, Melissa Harris Perry and her guests discussed the power of images, focusing on the debate as to whether...
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Are All the Women Still White? Kermit Gosnell, “Back Alley” Abortions, and the Politics of Motherhood
By j.n. salters Last week, Kermit Gosnell—the African-American “late-term abortionist” who delivered live babies and then stuck scissors in the backs of their necks and...
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Feminists We Love: Stephanie Gilmore
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Darnell L. Moore Stephanie Gilmore is an antiracist queer feminist scholar-activist who engages activism through education and writing. She facilitates...
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First To Die: Evil Dead and Blackness in Horror
By Joshua Alston The victor in this weekend’s box-office battle was Evil Dead, the remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult-classic horror film, which roared into...
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Lessons on What It Must Be, Not What It Could: Growing Up Black and Boy in America
By Hashim Pipkin At age twelve, before I had one full year of formal schooling, I had a notion as to what life meant that...
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Fear of the Sonic [Un]Known: Sonica Trauma and Black Masculinity in the Popular Imagination
By Regina Bradley Black masculinity is frequently framed within the context of visual culture. In other words, discourses about black masculinity often consider questions of:...
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Feminists We Love: Jamilah Lemieux
Jamilah Lemieux is the News & Lifestyle Editor for EBONY.com. In 2005, she created the award-winning blog, The Beautiful Struggler, where for more than six years, she published meditations on race...
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TFW: The Year in Review
With the intertwined mission of fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives, 2012 gave our contributors no shortage of topics about which to write. We saw...
