All posts tagged "U.S."
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Regrets: Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro
We regret the passing of Geraldine Ferraro, who died on Saturday, 24 March, at the age of 75. In 1984, Congresswoman Ferraro made history when,...
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Special Message from the Editors: Welcome, Dr. Tamura Lomax
The Feminist Wire is proud to welcome Dr. Tamura Lomax aboard! Congratulations to Tamura for a brilliantly successful dissertation defense at Vanderbilt University on Monday,...
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Where Are the Radicals?: Islam(ophobia) and Black Urban Politics
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman Who is it that said the more things change, the more they stay the same? If the last decade is any harbinger...
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The Banality Of Dehumanization: The Case of Infant Gendering
Target is now in the business of selling sex toys or, to be more precise, cock rings. I know this because on a recent trip...
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The Wrong One, Let In
On Friday, March 4th, Connecticut police finally arrested the infamous “East Coast Rapist.” Now known as 39-year old unemployed truck driver Aaron H. Thomas, the...
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Where Are We?
It is even past my bed time at 3 o’clock, Thursday morning, 10 March 2011. But if we’re reading this right, we all have miles...
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A World of Contradictions
Since security forces and militia loyal to Libya’s Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi attacked groups of peaceful protestors on February 17th, widespread bloodshed, disappearances, fear and anger...
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What to Do When God Hates You: A Lordeian Intervention in the Face of the Westboro Case
Last week the United States Supreme Court voted eight to one in favor of a definition of free speech that includes hate speech on what...
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"If You Scared Just Say It": Black and Queer with Nothing to Prove- A Preview of Shirlette and the Dynamite Brothers
Play the song before it plays you. Turn it on before game recognizes game. Touch the wound inside before it heals. This is the...
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Our Reproductive Dystopia: Or, WTF?
Republicans are on the warpath, and their enemy is women. Okay, maybe not all women. Just poor women. And those who are disabled and/or chronically...
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The Pence Amendment: Waging War on the Poor
By Ulli K. Ryder Is there a “war on women?” Does the recent amendment to deny federal funding for Planned Parenthood signal a concerted attack on...
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Assault
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman A new billboard went up in SoHo last week, placed at a busy intersection on Sixth Avenue a few feet...
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Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too
In the world of newspapers, “beneath the fold” apparently means that the feature bears only secondary interest or importance compared to what is situated above...
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James Baldwin: Still So Much To Teach Us
More GRITtv “The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which...
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Mississippi "Odd" (Damn): Black Feminism is Unbelievable
“It just sounds really odd. You know?” This is what a white male police officer said to me several times after he separated my partner...
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Be My (Feminist) Valentine
In her book All About Love, bell hooks makes a startling claim. Her parents did not love her. They gave her enough food to eat, books...
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Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But I Am!
The following essay is a response to “Kanye West Is Not A Feminist But…” For more information, please see the initial essay as well...
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Women, Welfare Reform and the Progressive Agenda
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman After more than a year or so of procrastinating I finally watched Lee Daniels’s critically and commercially successful film “Precious: Based on...