By Viki Peer I was so excited to attend a university-wide screening of After Tiller, the 2013 Emmy-winning documentary about the four remaining doctors who...
By Manon Arundhati Fabre While considering my options for the upcoming 2016 summer, I took a particular interest in searching for volunteering opportunities in Sao...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...