The Feminist Wire is fundamentally committed to intersectional truth-telling. We are uncompromising in this, and we will name the damage. We are not the mainstream...
By M. Shadee Malaklou Two days after President Obama pardoned the White House turkey and one day after Americans sat down at tables across the...
Imperatives for Carrying on in the Aftermath by Natasha Trethewey Do not hang your head or clench your fists when even your friend, after hearing...
Who will sing a Black girl’s song? During the spring 2015 semester, a group of students at Colorado College, where I am Associate Director and...
By Sumayyah Malik “A tribute to weirdom” i’m going to spread the primrose smell off myself, and will sprout today, like Jack’s beanstalk...
Mother’s Day Hangover 2016 I have 3 days of prime emotional anethesization to work through before I get on this creaky jetplane to New York,...
By Chichi Okonkwo The 21st century has seen continued “cloud” popularization and, with it, memes. The commonality of memes and our propensity to reduce sentences...
By Amelia Roskin-Frazee **Content Warning: sexual violence, hate speech** We’ve all had at least one friend tell us, “Don’t read the comments.” The...
By Rora Blue My dad first introduced me to feminism when I was a teenager. He bought me the book Full Frontal Feminism. Since...
By Viki Peer I was so excited to attend a university-wide screening of After Tiller, the 2013 Emmy-winning documentary about the four remaining doctors who...
By Manon Arundhati Fabre While considering my options for the upcoming 2016 summer, I took a particular interest in searching for volunteering opportunities in Sao...
By Chloe Sariego Since binaries are so early 2000s, I’m increasingly less interested in “pro” and “anti” porn debates. I’ve been a pro-porn feminist for...
By Caddie Alford What if your disability were just a punchline? Online at The New York Times Opinion, they’re thinking about disability. Funny how quickly...
By Jacklyn Janeksela just as i swallowed a spoonful of peanut butter or right when i swallow a spoonful of peanut butter she asks me...
By Judy Rohrer In the beginning of September I published a short article on a Hawai’i news site analyzing what I thought to be obvious...
By Fiona Gilligan It is Monday, 6 June 2016. A year since the inaugural march, organizers of the mass social-media-born movement #NiUnaMenos renewed their...
By Anastasia L. **Content Notice: discussion of sexual assault and violence** When I was twelve, I was first sexually assaulted by a relative while we...
By Namrata Poddar Lisette don’t like to work. Mostly, she paint mandalas on tiles and have exhibition four times a year to sell her...