All posts by Tamura Lomax
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No, You Aren’t Amber Cole’s Father
If you follow events on the intertubes, you may have heard of the sad case of Amber Cole, a 14-year-old girl who was videotaped...
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Judge approves historic settlement for black farmers
Remember Shirley Sherrod, former Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture? Back in July 2010 Sherrod was wrongfully fired by...
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Update: Scott Olsen has reportedly regained consciousness
News sources are reporting that Iraq veteran, Scott Olsen, injured in an Oakland police raid earlier this week, has regained consciousness in recovering from a...
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Beyond Wall Street–Occupying Patriarchy…
To Occupy Patriarchy is to draw attention to “the far deeper and greater problem of patriarchy which depends in large measure on the exploitation, disempowerment, and subjugation...
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My Female Colleagues Told Me Not To Talk About The Abuse. I Did It Anyway
To tell or not to tell? That is the question that many domestic abuse survivors face daily. Michele Weldon, assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University,...
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Occupy Gender!
Just as most Occupy Wall St protesters do NOT want to eradicate capitalism, most feminists/gender justice advocates do not want to get rid of gender.~Sally...
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From the Editors on "Occupy Wall Street"
The Feminist Wire is happy to present a series on “Occupy Wall Street,” as it moves from its origin to 145 other cities throughout the United States...
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Introducing: Sikivu Hutchinson…
TFW welcomes Sikivu Hutchinson to our Editorial Collective. Sikivu Hutchinson is a senior intergroup specialist for the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission. She received a Ph.D. in...
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Introducing: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan…
TFW welcomes Mecca Jamilah Sullivan to our Editorial Collective. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is from Harlem, New York. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming internationally in publications including Callaloo,...
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Palin, Bachmann and the Political Feminism of the Right
As the 2012 Presidential election draws nearer, political observers and frontrunners alike are sure to begin reconstructing new and old partisan paradigms, with hopes of...
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Strauss-Kahn, Domestic Immigrants and Money, Power, Respect
See I believe in money, power and respect. First you get the money. Then you get the motherf–kin’ power. And after you get the f–kin’...
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Eddie Long, Creflo Dollar, and the Black Church's Sanctioning of Sexual Violence
In September 2010 Bishop Eddie Long, prominent Atlanta pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, was accused of sexual improprieties with four young men—Anthony Flagg, Spencer...
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Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge
We are I delighted to announce the forthcoming release of Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge, edited by our very own, Monica Casper, and...
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Breaking News: Osama Bin Laden is Dead
The man known as Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda, is dead. Last night President Obama confirmed that Bin Laden was shot to death...
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A Message from the Editors
The Feminist Wire appreciates and respects the many voices that contributed to last week’s events. We are particularly pleased with the expeditious, cross-gendered, cross-generational, and...
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Shayne Lee, Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between These Thighs: An Open Letter
Since writing my review of Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, entitled “Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes,” originally written for Palimpsest: A...
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Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes
Reprinted from Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, with SUNY Press. Update: Final copy now available in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender...
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“Eating the Other” (at Fat Ho Burgers): Desire and Resistance (Remixed)
At the corner of 11th Street and Ross Avenue in Waco, Texas sits a new eatery: Fat Ho Burgers (or, as some like to call...