Generations of white women’s violence stop here: On watching the Amy Cooper video with my 5-year-old white daughter

By Annie Menzel For white people working to align ourselves with justice, it makes sense to want to distance ourselves from Amy Cooper, the “Central Park Karen.” Amy Cooper deliberately lied to...

Our Letter of Camaraderie to Black Women and WOC: A promise from (some) white women after watching Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us”

"We want white supremacy to end, no matter what it means for...

The Lemonade Reader: Black Feminists Read Beyoncé

The Lemonade Reader, edited by Kinitra D. Brooks and Kameelah L. Martin,...

Black Lesbian Resistance and Resilience

We are in an intergenerational relay race for our survival. I received...

THE MAKING OF A NEW ANTI-RACIST FEMINIST WORKING CLASS; #Feminism4the99

By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing this just a few weeks after...

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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When Being Sex Positive Isn’t Enough
By Guest Contributor on November 10, 2016
By Chloe Sariego Since binaries are so early 2000s, I’m increasingly less interested in “pro” and “anti” porn debates. I’ve been a pro-porn feminist for...
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My Disability is a Joke
By Guest Contributor on November 9, 2016
By Caddie Alford What if your disability were just a punchline? Online at The New York Times Opinion, they’re thinking about disability. Funny how quickly...
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Poem: ““you realize adults know nothing about girls when they ask you extra dumb questions”
By Guest Contributor on November 9, 2016
By Jacklyn Janeksela just as i swallowed a spoonful of peanut butter or right when i swallow a spoonful of peanut butter she asks me...
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Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: “It Hurts”
By Guest Contributor on November 7, 2016
By Judy Rohrer In the beginning of September I published a short article on a Hawai’i news site analyzing what I thought to be obvious...
EMERGING FEMINISMS, Renewed Call to Action: Argentina Speaks Out against Femicide
By Guest Contributor on November 7, 2016
By Fiona Gilligan It is Monday, 6 June 2016. A year since the inaugural march, organizers of the mass social-media-born movement #NiUnaMenos renewed their...
EMERGING FEMINISMS, Where Flowers Can Grow
By Guest Contributor on November 3, 2016
By Anastasia L. **Content Notice: discussion of sexual assault and violence** When I was twelve, I was first sexually assaulted by a relative while we...
Fiction: “Nature, Nurture”
By Guest Contributor on November 2, 2016
By Namrata Poddar Lisette don’t like to work. Mostly, she paint mandalas on tiles and have exhibition four times a year to sell her...
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Male Ego Bulls**t: On Martial Arts Training, Violence, and Toxic Masculinity
By Guest Contributor on November 1, 2016
By Jesse Goldberg This past summer, I got to watch a friend of mine win her first sanctioned kickboxing title. I’ve been training in martial...
TFW’s Sikivu Hutchinson debuts Jonestown film “White Nights, Black Paradise”
By Sikivu Hutchinson on October 31, 2016
On November 18, 1978, more than 900 people died in a mass suicide/murder at the Peoples Temple Settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. Based on the acclaimed novel...
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On Gloria Naylor’s Transition: A Love Note
By Heidi R. Lewis on October 31, 2016
On September 28, Gloria Naylor died of a heart attack while visiting the Virgin Islands at just 66-years-old. I was just 7-years-old and in 3rd grade...
EMERGING FEMINISMS, Capital-P-Productivity
By Guest Contributor on October 31, 2016
By Laura Honsig “Capital-P-Productivity” is what a friend of mine called it once. For a long time I’ve been trying to put words to an...
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“It Takes A Village”: Afterword to the #LoveWITHAccountability Forum
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons on October 28, 2016
There aren’t any words that will articulate the depth of my deep gratitude and love for each of the twenty-nine individual #LoveWITHAccountability forum contributors who...
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LOVE WITH ACCOUNTABILITY: A Mother’s Lament & A Daughter’s Postscript
By Guest Contributor on October 28, 2016
As a Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Activist, I am shocked and ashamed of myself. I am ashamed that I let my...
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Becoming Each Other’s Harvest
By Guest Contributor on October 28, 2016
Let us envision a society that does not empower the carceral state to intervene in the affairs of our families and communities, but instead builds...
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Who is Accountable to the Black Latinx Child?
By Guest Contributor on October 27, 2016
Content Notice: This article is part of the #LoveWITHAccountability forum on The Feminist Wire. The purpose of this forum and the #LoveWITHAccountability project is to prioritize child sexual abuse,...
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On Moving Forward
By Guest Contributor on October 27, 2016
Removing the threat of prison is also likely to bolster odds that victims and their families come forward and challenge abusers. The prospect of losing...
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It’s the Whispers
By Guest Contributor on October 27, 2016
Current activism about everything from the school-to-prison pipeline to police violence notes that our Black children are deemed older than we really are, with knowledge...
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activist, poet, prison abolitionist, human rights advocate, incest and rape survivor
By Guest Contributor on October 26, 2016
I don’t need an “apology” from the harm doers in my life to actually heal. I don’t need a pitiful recognition to liberate myself. Amends...