By Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Darnell L. Moore, & Kenyon Farrow Over and over again as racially-conscious, Black feminist lesbian and gay people, we find ourselves...
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons Gloria Steinem is a Second Wave White Feminist pioneer who, for over 40 years and counting, has been at the forefront...
Since writing my review of Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, entitled “Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes,” originally written for Palimpsest: A...
The Feminist Wire celebrates a multiplicity of feminist expressions from a variety of editors and writers that span genders, sexualities, professions, incomes, races, ethnicities, abilities,...
Sande Smith: To be in the company of your fierce and loving inquiry. Your influence didn’t stop there, though. When I was planning how to...
Cara Page: She asks us to be well/ to love ourselves and one another/ So that we are all safe and loved.
J. Bob Alotta is the Executive Director at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, a global foundation based in NYC that provides critical resources to...
By Lisa Factora-Borchers I usually beam when Ohio makes news. Usually. In presidential election years, the inner grin shows its teeth when I hear the...
I often celebrate and lift up the names of two women–Audre Lorde and Toni Cade Bambara –who are not related to me by blood but...