All posts tagged "Violence"
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A Love Note for Movement
By Purvi Shah The work of ending violence and enabling gender equity is hard. The victories are too rare, the celebrations too brief. And so...
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Race and Community Accountability
By Qui Dorian Alexander I came into feminism as a butch Latina lesbian at a women’s college. Today I stand as a brown queer trans...
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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...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter to UConn President Susan Herbst
Dear President Susan Herbst, I write to you today as a UConn student, but more specifically as a UConn woman and feminist. I want to...
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Reckoning: Race and Sexual Assault in Colombia
By Stacia Penn I am a young black American living in Colombia. My life in Medellin has been a multi-faceted privilege, affording me access to...
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An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India
Mr. Prime Minister: I read today that you were “disturbed” about the rape of another child in Delhi, a five-year-old girl. My question to you...
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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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On Guns, Fetuses, and “Pro-Life” Hypocrisy
Last week, while grieving parents of the children killed in Newtown were tearfully urging gun control measures, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tex.) boldly launched—to well deserved...
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Meditations of a Deviant Daughter
By Tanwi Nandini Islam When something happened. An allusion to something ominous from the distant past. I documented my rape thoroughly in my creative work,...
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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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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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Darnell L. Moore helps launch Ring the Bell: One million men. One million promises.
Ring the Bell: One million men. One million promises is a movement that encourages men across the globe to make concrete, actionable promises to combat violence against women. Launch...
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4 Poems by Pooja Garg Singh
anatomy of a rape there are ways and ways to love a woman a 101-ways book can be found, open to page 51 ...
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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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If coherent light
Marina Abramović, in The Artist is Present, sat on a wooden chair in the spring of 2010 and made eye contact with anyone who cared...
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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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Op-Ed: Solo Women Travelers: “Go Out Without Your Body”
By Alice Driver “The only thing left to say is, ‘If you don’t want anything to happen to you, go out without your body,’” instructed...