By Kim Tran Last Thursday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta further integrated the armed forces by lifting a 1994 ban barring female service members from...
There’s been much talk about TLC’s new show The Sisterhood, a reality show about the lives and struggles of Ivy Couch, Domonique Scott, Christina Murray, DeLana Rutherford,...
Here at The Feminist Wire, we like to roll with the punches, grow with the times, and reinvent ourselves when necessary and fruitful. This week,...
By Lynne Huffer “It’s Personal,” the new abortion rights campaign of the National Women’s Law Center, hinges on language like this: “Only you know what...
Today, January 26, 2013, marks India’s 64th anniversary as a republic. It is not an old republic if seen in “nation” years but definitely old...
By Erica Cardwell In grade school, we used a phonics book called the Victory Drill Book. It was filled with various words, prefixes, suffixes, and...
Emblematic of a generation of men and women in the South that challenged their parents’ generation’s views on race, jobs, gender, sexuality, and a broader...
By Rachel G. Fuchs This week, we commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that allowed women the fundamental human...
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica J. Casper [Over a two-day period, TFW Collective Members Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica J. Casper shared an e-dialogue...
This began as an essay about the re-emergence of the “having it all” debate, led by Anne Marie Slaughter’s article in The Atlantic last year....
In the wake of the Newtown shootings, the airwaves have been vibrating—often furiously—with conversations about guns. And as always in the United States, the issue...
For the past several months, Crenshaw Boulevard in predominantly black South Los Angeles has featured a series of striking billboards condemning homophobia and its role...
by Alessandra Lynch mademoiselles d’avignon The one we look at as the one cursed hangs her orange beast-face, a block for a...
I left my ovary on the subway last night. Stepped out. Felt light. Heard the doors close behind me, and realized I’d left my ovary...
By Maria Faini In Marietta, Ohio, on an October afternoon just prior to the recent Presidential election, Tea Party and Catholic protesters confronted Nuns on...
Editorial Intern TFW seeks a part-time editorial intern, preferably an advanced undergraduate or early graduate student. Duties will include triaging manuscript submissions, tracking reviews, communicating...
“Poems come to stand in the place of our spines.” -Cynthia Dewi Oka “notes on Captain Ahab’s workshop/ before the poet is harpooned” We are...
By Maria Angela Johnson I have been an attorney for six years. Nonetheless, when I tell someone what I do, too often I hear this...