February 2017 – The Feminist Wire

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The Many Ways to STRIKE on March 8: Rise, Resist, Organize, Dance, Dialogue, Refuse
By Guest Contributor on February 27, 2017
By Zillah Eisenstein The International Women’s Strike/US on March 8, 2017 hopes to be a catalyst for the liberation of all women, cis and trans—of...
Anti-black Christianity & White Supremacist Gods: A Meditation on Race and Religion in the U.S.
By Darnell L. Moore on February 23, 2017
Today we woke up in a world strikingly similar to and unlike the world we knew this time last year. Scenes replete with countless bodies...
EMERGING FEMINISMS, Organizing Political Rage
By Guest Contributor on February 23, 2017
By Mina Ezikpe On 20 September 2016, the day after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, I, with a few others, traveled...
Poetry by Ansley Clark
By Guest Contributor on February 22, 2017
Signs How to arrange myself in a pleasing yet adequately compelling way how does interiority fare when I walk through the world ...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, American Girlhood and the Confidence Gap
By Guest Contributor on February 20, 2017
By Christiane Gannon My female students are discussing their relationship to criticism, gathered at the back of the room in two groups. On the left...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: From Pernicious Editing to Audacious Rescripting (Benediction)
By Tamura Lomax on February 17, 2017
In her Introduction to Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (2002), an edited collection of essays engaging the hyper-presence of...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: What’s Next: a Bibliography, a Journal and You
By Tamura Lomax on February 16, 2017
Throughout the #BlackSkinWhiteSin forum I was asked the question, “so sis, what’s next?” The truth is, this work intentionally leads to a variety of openings...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Sexual Autonomy Ain’t Schizophrenia: Deconstructing Bynum’s Ableist Rhetoric in “No More Sheets Pt. 2”
By Guest Contributor on February 16, 2017
By Jade Perry Last Monday a good friend sent Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets Part 2” via inbox with the caption, “She’s baaaaack.” I clicked...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Shielding Our Girls From Misogynoir…Even When It Comes From the Church
By Guest Contributor on February 16, 2017
By Kimberly Peeler-Ringer I was getting a feel for my own preaching voice right around the time Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets” came out. I...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: “You’re Jiggling, Baby. Go ‘head, baby.”: Fighting Temptations to Move in the Engineering of Worship
By Guest Contributor on February 15, 2017
By Alisha Lola Jones Ok, we don’t wear girdles no more, but have you heard of SPANX? Have you heard of something that keeps you...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Black Feminist Thoughts on No More Sheets and Black Sexual Politics
By Heidi R. Lewis on February 15, 2017
During my senior year of college, sometime between 2002 and 2003, a good friend of mine—let’s call her Nicole—alerted me to Juanita Bynum’s No More...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: In the Name of Redemptive Self-Love: Stop! The Holyrolling Fashion Police
By Guest Contributor on February 15, 2017
By Melanie C. Jones Since the European male’s predatory gaze upon African women on precolonial African soil, the Black female body in Western culture has...
Poems by A.D.
By Guest Contributor on February 15, 2017
Selections from BITCH/BITCH 7 Cutting / the rot The sweet red / hole Gelatinous / flesh holy / of holies My...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: For Those Still Haunted by The Sheets (Why the Counter-Narrative Matters)
By Guest Contributor on February 14, 2017
By Candice Benbow I remember the first time I watched Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets” sermon. Family members had just come back from the Woman,...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: No Redemptive Quality: Black Women’s Bodies, Black Church and the Business of Shame
By Guest Contributor on February 14, 2017
By Melva L. Sampson In 1996, I sat in an auditorium-styled mega church sanctuary in Washington, DC along with hundreds of other mostly Black women...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: From Free to Freaks: Analyzing Juanita Bynum’s Dilemma of Holy and Ho
By Guest Contributor on February 14, 2017
By Monique Moultrie When Prophetess Juanita Bynum’s most recent Facebook live video came to my attention it was yet another example of Bynum’s attempts at...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: What Juanita Bynum Gets Wrong: Reflections from A Pentecostal Woman Preacher
By Guest Contributor on February 13, 2017
By Keri Day I remember encountering Juanita Bynum for the first time as a college student at a Church of God in Christ (COGIC) Jurisdictional...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Received: Black Women and Our Talking Bodies
By Guest Contributor on February 13, 2017
By Neichelle Guidry One Sunday during my childhood, a woman in my church approached me with a “gift.” “God has led me to give this...

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