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THE MAKING OF A NEW ANTI-RACIST FEMINIST WORKING CLASS; #Feminism4the99
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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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Feminists We Love: Kristen E. Nelson
Kristen E. Nelson is the author of Write, Dad (Unthinkable Creatures Press, 2012). She has recently published work in The Volta, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky Journal, Trickhouse, and Everyday Genius, among...
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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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Towards Community Wellness: Healing from Trauma through Yoga
By Jardana Peacock Some stories you don’t want to tell. Some places you just don’t want to return to. But some stories destroy you unless...
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Featured Poet: Aditi Rao
By Aditi Rao Dear Mr. Yadav, I too am an Indian Woman “Referring to the recent ‘Slut Walk’ held in the Capital, Mr. Lalu...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: My Journey to Feminism: How Feminism Inspired My Life
By Elizabeth Dorssom I first started referring to myself as a feminist when I was 17. Even though I didn’t identify as a feminist until I was...
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An Open Letter to Facebook
From Women, Action and Media May 21, 2013 An Open Letter to Facebook: We, the undersigned, are writing to demand swift, comprehensive and effective action...
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To Our Sisters, Morehouse
By Kalima DeSuze, Nicole Patin and Farah Tanis on behalf of the members of Black Women’s Blueprint To Our Sisters, To those who have survived...
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Rhetoric We Don’t Believe In
By Eddie Glaude, Lester Spence, Imani Perry, Josie Pickens, David Leonard, and Kiese Laymon We come together to share our various thoughts and reactions to...
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Book Review: Marci Blackman's "Tradition"
By Quincy Scott Jones Town and Country: A Review of Marci Blackman’s Tradition (Water Street Press, 2013) In the most brilliant crimes stories, the detective must travel,...
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Best Laid Plans
By Dara Tafakari Mathis I am a punch line of a black woman and my pride is bruised. You will laugh later, I promise myself, but...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Shattering Silence (Video)
By Molly Baker On April 23, University of Arizona student Dean Saxton, better known as Brother Dean, stood on a bench brandishing a sign that...
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Op-Ed: Are Black People More Homophobic Than White People?
By Sidney Fussell Simply put, no. Black people are not “more” homophobic than white people. That’s a myth. But here I want to unpack what...
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The Universe Loves You!: Dear Universe: Letters of Affirmation and Empowerment for All of Us by Yolo Akili
Did you know that my mom is a therapist? She is! And at it’s very best psychology is the science of learning how to love...
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Assata the Unflinching
by Gregory L. Caldwell and Omar Ricks Dear President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, At the risk of running afoul of the PATRIOT...
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Press Release: A Letter to Barack Obama (change.org)
The Feminist Wire supports the petition below. To add your name, please visit change.org. For more on Assata Shakur from us, please see forthcoming articles celebrating her...
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Our Sister, Assata Shakur: Life, Struggle, Justice, and Love
By Lisa Brock and Beth E. Richie Feminist women of color activists and anyone who considers themselves our allies in the struggle for justice need...
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Feminists We Love: Assata Shakur (Love Note)
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “No one is going to give you the education you need...
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A is for Asylum
Assata do not dry like dissipated plums under castro’s bronzing sun you mural fortress you live memorial spirited artifice rouged sea salt that marinates america’s...