All posts tagged "Politics"
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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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Diana by Lisa O'Neill
This piece was written in the liminal space after the Boston Marathon bombings had occurred, during the initial firefights and manhunt, during the time when...
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“Somebody’s Children”: A Conversation with Laura Briggs
By Kelly Sharron and Abraham Weil Laura Briggs is the chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. We...
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Building a Racial Justice Praxis
By Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Have you ever had moments in your life that you know have changed you forever? Moments that shifted your consciousness, changed how you...
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The Tragedy of a Failed Politic
By Farah Tanis, Kalima DeSuze, and Nikki Patin Black Women’s Blueprint It is over 180 years since the abolition movement, 165 years since women’s suffrage,...
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Marriage Equality and Beyond: A View from India
A few days before my Facebook News Feed was flooded with red equal signs, I went to a short march in Bangalore. The Gender and...
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Find the Good in Women Who Aren't Margaret Thatcher
By Ren Jender “She must have been miserable,” one of my Facebook “friends” wrote as a kind of eulogy for Margaret Thatcher. I had to...
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Feminists We Love: Liora K
Liora K is an Arizona photographer who produces art not only for work and pleasure, but also for Feminism. When I first discovered Liora’s provocative...
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Confessions of an Anglo Mariachi Musician
When my partner’s father, Saul, first played for me a recording of ranchera singer Miguel Aceves Mejía, I instantly fell in love with his voice....
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Special Report: The Commission on the Status of Women Comes to an End
By Special TFW Correspondent, Mazuba Haanyama The 57th session of the CSW has come to an end. On the 15th of March, the UN member states signed the...
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The Erased Women of the Wall: Settler Feminism and the Moroccan Quarter
By Jimmy Johnson Tel Aviv University Professor Orly Lubin asks about Israeli feminism, “Should feminists struggle for the implementation of equal rights in the army...
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Maternal Evil?
By Keira Williams Before she jumped eight stories to her death, Cynthia Wachenheim left a thirteen-page suicide letter explaining that she was a bad mother....
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Special Report: The Feminist Wire goes to the Commission on the Status of Women, or the CSW Through My Virgin Eyes
By Special TFW Correspondent, Mazuba Haanyama Week one is rapidly drawing to an end and I feel like I have been hit by a train; a...
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An Open Letter to Amanda Marcotte
By Tara L. Conley Dear Amanda. Resting uneasily in this contentious, but necessary space, I write this letter to you. Gloria Anzaldúa calls it a...
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Op-Ed: Nicholas Kristof and the Politics of Writing About Women’s Oppression in Darker Nations
By Sunil Bhatia On February 13, 2013, Nicholas Kristof gave a talk at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. His talk, titled Striving for Global Justice, was...
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On Beyoncé, Benedict, and the Volition of Women
By Lisa O’Neill At a school mass at my all girls’ Catholic High School, the priest said a homily about chastity, and in particular, sex...
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Sacrifice, Religion and Exclusion: On Parade in Little Saigon
By: Duane Bidwell In 1954, the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision made it clear that “separate” is not “equal” when it...