All posts tagged "Activism"
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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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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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THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE of BLACK LAWYERS (NCBL) CONDEMNS THE FBI’S CONTINUED ATTACKS ON ACTIVIST ASSATA SHAKUR
The Feminist Wire is committed to providing space for critical dialogue. We are reprinting NCBL’s statement in its entirety with permission from the authors with...
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Hands Off Assata!
By Angela Y. Davis I was one of those seasoned activists who were utterly taken by surprise when Assata Shakur was recently placed on the...
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An Introduction to TFW's Forum on Assata Shakur: America's Grammar Book on Black Women and Terrorism
Assata Shakur has been given many names over the past four decades. Her political allies in the 1970s struggle for black liberation knew her as...
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10 Ways Men Can End Violence Against Women
By Sacchi Patel As I checked my Twitter feed on the morning of Tuesday, April 30, 2013, I expected to find mostly depressing news, as...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS:A Statement of Clarification Acknowledging The Presence of Rape Culture
By Dani Cofini and Kelly Casey According to feminist theory, rape culture is defined as the normalization, victim-blaming, and tolerance that often pardons rape and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter Addressing the UConn Community
By Victoria Rossetti, Rebecca Barton, and Stephanie Naranjo To the UConn Community: This letter is in response to the events surrounding Carolyn Luby’s open letter...
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Confession
By Nancy Kricorian Back when I earned my MFA in Poetry at Columbia, the majority of the students were women, and nearly all of our...
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It's Open Girl-Meat Season
By Jawahara Saidullah “Kya maal hai.” What good stuff. “Bilkul sahi cheez yaar.” Absolutely, great stuff, man. Maal means, stuff, thing, or merchandise. So does...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Dear UConn Social Justice Community…
We are calling for your support in an escalating situation on the UConn campus. A student published an open letter to the UConn President on The...
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Un-Women's Liberation
By James Bliss And I wonder what I may be risking as I become more and more committed to telling whatever truth comes across my eyes...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter in Response to the Backlash at Uconn
By Nathaniel Herter I’d like to preface this article by noting that while news stories might upset, they rarely leave me shaking with rage, and that...
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Op Ed: Defying Antiblackness at UC Irvine—and Everywhere
By John Murillo III The University of California, Irvine’s Black Student Union continues to act in response to one instance in a lengthy genealogy of...
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The UConn WGSS Public Statement
The Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Connecticut applauds Ms. Luby for creating an open dialogue about the relationship among the...
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Why is UConn's Mascot a Rape Meme?
By Soraya L. Chemaly Two days ago, Carolyn Luby, an undergraduate at University of Connecticut published a remarkable open letter to the school’s president, Susan Herbst, in The...
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Urgent: Press Release: An Open Letter to President Susan Herbst, the UConn Community, Barstool Sports, and others on Behalf of Carolyn Luby
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2013 In light of the recent vitriolic, anti-feminist, misogynist, and malevolent backlash directed at UConn senior Carolyn Luby in response...