All posts tagged "Abortion"
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: My Message to Anti-Abortionists
By Anonymous Dear Picketer, Pulling into the abortion clinic you were there to greet me after my hour-and-a-half long drive across the state line....
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Personal is Political: Post-Abortion Mental Health Is a Feminist Issue
It’s our duty as feminists to keep abortion legal and safe—and safe means that we need to address the underlying problems that are causing women...
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3 Poems by Emily Carr
yolk (v.) he’s gonna havta reach inside you. he’s gonna do it. you asked him to. he’s gonna tell you how old it is. he’s...
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The War on Women in My Hometown
We at The Feminist Wire, and many people around the United States, were shocked but not surprised by the Supreme Court decision on Hobby Lobby....
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A Statement on the Hobby Lobby Ruling
The Feminist Wire finds the Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby to be a gross violation of women’s fundamental freedoms. SCOTUS has determined,...
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Expectations: Intimate Feminisms Embodied
By Erin Durban-Albrecht and Monica J. Casper Our intention in collating this Mothers Day montage for The Feminist Wire is to celebrate women’s contributions...
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The Lorde Works in Mysterious and Magical Ways: An Introduction to TFW’s Audre Lorde Forum
I write libation to all those known and unknown ancestors across lifetimes that have gone before me and upon whose shoulders I literally stand. Tuesday,...
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Feminists We Love: Alison Piepmeier
It’s hard to say exactly what distinguishes good teaching from great teaching, but the evidence of transformative teaching is undeniable. Transformative teachers cultivate student followings....
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Op-Ed: Abortion Funds: Bridging the Gap in Reproductive Health Care Where Texas and The Hyde Amendment Won’t
By Amanda Williams As open enrollment of the Affordable Care Act finally kicks off, Americans are beginning to celebrate a healthier future for our country. ...
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How To Forgive Abortion When You Are the Aborter
Andria Nacina Cole I imagine there are many feminists who would like to mourn an abortion but are afraid to do so, because to admit...
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Op-Ed: Debating Abortion
By Wanda Kolomyjec I find myself debating women, and I am weary. They speak of their belief that abortion might be murder, that it is...
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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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Confessions of a Complicated Latina Feminist
By Juliana Britto Schwartz “You Americans, why are you so obsessed with labels?” The way my Brazilian cousin looks at me, she might as well...
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Feminists We Love: Stephanie Gilmore
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Darnell L. Moore Stephanie Gilmore is an antiracist queer feminist scholar-activist who engages activism through education and writing. She facilitates...
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Cynthia Wachenheim and the Impossible Terrain of Motherhood
By Alison Piepmeier As Keira Williams wrote here recently, Cynthia Wachenheim killed herself—and attempted to kill her son—because she felt that she’d been a terrible...
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Op-Ed: Abortion Rights Advocates Need to Knock Roe from its Pedestal
By Lynne Huffer “It’s Personal,” the new abortion rights campaign of the National Women’s Law Center, hinges on language like this: “Only you know what...
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Roe v. Wade's 40th Anniversary
By Rachel G. Fuchs This week, we commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that allowed women the fundamental human...
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Choosing Our Own Lives: Two 40-Something Feminists Reflect on Roe
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica J. Casper [Over a two-day period, TFW Collective Members Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica J. Casper shared an e-dialogue...
