All posts tagged "U.S."
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America's Autumn: A Time for Growth Amidst Struggle
By Darnell L. Moore These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the...
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Dispatch from Occupy Wall Street
By Jennifer K Uleman Tuesday, October 11, 2011: I went back down to Occupy Wall Street today. I’d been down on Saturday, for the first...
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From the Editors on "Occupy Wall Street"
The Feminist Wire is happy to present a series on “Occupy Wall Street,” as it moves from its origin to 145 other cities throughout the United States...
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In Support of Occupy Wall Street
By Zillah Eisenstein and Chandra Talpade Mohanty “Occupy Wall Street” is an incredible movement even if there is no easily ready-made pre-existing political language to...
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Teenaged Nightmare: Violent Masculinity and Young Women of Color
They were carefree and besotted, joined at the hip, the epitome of a young couple steeped in the insular world of teen obsession. To some,...
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The Revolution Might Not Be Televised (but it might be on Facebook)
For ten days people have been on Wall Street as part of the “Occupy Wall Street” protest and major U.S. media outlets have been nearly...
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Tamar and Troy, or, When Can We Cry?
By Ashon Crawley But when brought them near to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me,...
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A Message from the Editors Concerning the Execution of Troy Anthony Davis
We join millions of Americans in expressing our profound sorrow tonight that despite recantations and substantial doubt concerning his guilt, the state of Georgia has...
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The Myth of “Gay Marriage,” The Reality of Gay Hate: Dispatches from New York and North Carolina
The recent ruling in favor of gays and lesbians in New York has had unintended consequences. And I don’t mean that the global wellbeing of...
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Fables for Our Time
I should have been grading papers yesterday. In fact, I missed my own assignments, watching coverage that I know nearly as well as the digits...
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A Review: Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project by Charles “Chas” Brack
By Darnell Moore “Sakia Latona Gunn: We Will Remember Her Name” (2008). Charles B. Brack (Producer) and Co-Produced with Third World Newsreel. Color; 58 minutes;...
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Palin, Bachmann and the Political Feminism of the Right
As the 2012 Presidential election draws nearer, political observers and frontrunners alike are sure to begin reconstructing new and old partisan paradigms, with hopes of...
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Bad “Bitches,” True Women
By Sikivu Hutchinson As Middle America shuffles out of its hangover from the Casey Anthony trial and into the debt ceiling morass, the war on...
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Revolt of the Little Grey Cells
I’ve had it, dear readers. The gloves are off. Conservatives, you’d best take cover cause I’m about to verbally whup some Republican ass. After more...
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Help for "The Help"
By Gwendoline Y. Fortune, Ed. D. Within twenty-four hours, friends sent three critical reviews of “The Help,” a film that is garnering high praise, boosting sales...
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Talking Vaginas and Football Heroes: Gender, Race and Advertising
Summer’s Eve has pulled its controversial “Hail to the V” ads amidst enormous criticism from feminists, bloggers, YouTube watchers and…well, just about everybody. Thank goodness...
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On Her Birthday: Ida B. Wells
Last Saturday marked Ida B. Wells’ 149th birthday. On July 16, 1862, a few months before the Emancipation Proclamation and three years before the Thirteenth...
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The Pink Days: Living Happily Ever After the New York State Gay Marriage Bill?
By Darnell L. Moore Soon are the days when progressives (and, neoconservatives alike) will deploy the Empire State’s Marriage Equality Act as a case for...