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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.
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TFW will be conducting a workshop at NWSA (November 7-10) titled "Mediating Feminisms"
The Feminist Wire‘s proposal for our session titled “Mediating Feminisms: A Workshop By The Feminist Wire” has been accepted for inclusion in the National Women’s...
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Find the Good in Women Who Aren't Margaret Thatcher
By Ren Jender “She must have been miserable,” one of my Facebook “friends” wrote as a kind of eulogy for Margaret Thatcher. I had to...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Millennial Feminists, Stand Up!
By Ashley Yenick Many college-aged women have a skewed view of feminism and how it might apply to them. Millennial feminism was brought to my...
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On Guns, Fetuses, and “Pro-Life” Hypocrisy
Last week, while grieving parents of the children killed in Newtown were tearfully urging gun control measures, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tex.) boldly launched—to well deserved...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pre-Launch Video: Asking for Kale *trigger warning, discusses rape* (by students at Tufts University)
For more information, please visit: Tufts Action for Sexual Assault Prevention: http://tuftsasap.org/ Boston Area Rape Crisis Center: http://www.barcc.org/ Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network: http://www.rainn.org/
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pre-Launch Video: Representations of Black women in Media (students at Royal Holloway)
ACS committee interviewed students about the representation of black women in the media as part of their joint event with the Feminism Society at Royal...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pre-Launch Video: Representations of Gender in Advertising (by students at the University of Saskatchewan)
This video was a school project created for a Women and Gender Studies class at the University of Saskatchewan by Sarah, Kayla and Dylan. Their...
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Op-Ed: Egg Freezing: WTF?*
By Lynn M. Morgan and Janelle S. Taylor Marcia Inhorn’s recent CNN commentary, “Women, consider freezing your eggs” is certainly right about one thing: “Trying...
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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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Meditations of a Deviant Daughter
By Tanwi Nandini Islam When something happened. An allusion to something ominous from the distant past. I documented my rape thoroughly in my creative work,...
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Feminists We Love: Liora K
Liora K is an Arizona photographer who produces art not only for work and pleasure, but also for Feminism. When I first discovered Liora’s provocative...
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Aishah Shahidah Simmons will be screening and discussing NO! The Rape Documentary at Claremont Graduate University (4/17) and Occidental College (4/18)
For more information on NO! The Rape Documentary, please visit here and here. The events below are free and open to the public. However, the organizers request...
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Radical Birthwork as an Act of Resistance
By Ynanna Djehuty I like to open with definitions. The usage of words and knowing the weight they hold is important to all discourse, regardless...
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Short Story: "Small Change"
By Meg Mundell The woman’s blink rate tells him she’s nervous: almost once per second, four times the normal count. Jack knows a touch of...
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Western Novelist Paints a Racy Portrait of Middle Eastern Women in "Stoning the Devil"
By Jill Di Donato Stoning the Devil, a recent collection of interconnected stories set in the United Arab Emirates by writer Garry Craig Powell, dismantles the stereotype of...
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Untangling the Knots: Understanding the Hair Politics of Black Women (Revisited)
By Mazuba Haanyama My central aim involves the politics of bodily performance, in negotiation with shifting realities of a post-Apartheid context, where constructions of gender,...
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On Mistreating Female Athletes
By Allison Javors and Wade Davis, II I fell in love with Women’s College Basketball in 1993. I can remember watching Sheryl Swoopes score 47...
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Op-Ed: Where Femen Has Gone Wrong
By Mohadesa Najumi Femen is a feminist protest group founded in 2008, based in Ukraine. They received international recognition due to their direct and somewhat extreme methods of action....