The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy

We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read Dr. Joy James’ response to the “Chicago Statement.” We honor these words. We give...

Uncoddling White Women: An Interview with Community Organizer Becky Rafter

By Amanda Hendler-Voss Becky Rafter could have been among the 67% of...

The First White Amerikkkan Man

By Joe Pullen Since before Donald Trump was Donald Trump, it’s been...

EMERGING FEMINISMS, Legislating Islamophobia From Villaneuve-Loubet to Washington

By Amy Oldfield Women of Villeneuve-Loubet, a coastal town just South...

EMERGING FEMINISMS, Do You Recognize Me Now?

By Joy De Guzman On my first days of pre-school a...

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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART THREE
By Guest Contributor on March 9, 2017
By Lina Chhun In this post-inauguration period, we are living with what may seem to be a very keen tension—that tension between the dangers of...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART TWO
By Guest Contributor on March 6, 2017
By Lina Chhun A few months after returning from dissertation work abroad, I attended a talk with Professor Aisha Finch at UCLA. The talk expanded...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Meditations on Occupying Our Present: Why I Continue to Turn to Intersectional Feminism in This Moment, PART ONE
By Guest Contributor on March 2, 2017
By Lina Chhun Today I sat in my car and I waited for the sun to set. I can’t remember the last time I...
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...
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Staying on the Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement on the Election
By admin on November 30, 2016
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...
DAPL and the Matter/ing of Black Life
By Guest Contributor on November 30, 2016
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...
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Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: “It Hurts”
By Guest Contributor on November 7, 2016
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...
EMERGING FEMINISMS, Ideological Abolition: Divesting Ideas (Not Just Money) From the Prison
By Guest Contributor on August 11, 2016
By Bella Week There are about as many higher education institutions in this country as there are prisons, and all but Columbia and the University...
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cadencia (a poem for Orlando)
By Mick Powell on June 15, 2016
By Martina “Mick” Powell for KJ Morris and all the beautiful people we lost in Orlando, FL on June 12, 2016 & that...
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Ending the Colonial/Modern Occupation of Indigenous Women’s Bodies in Guatemala and Perú
By Guest Contributor on May 10, 2016
By Pascha Bueno-Hansen On Friday, March 4, 2016, a group of survivors, advocates, and activists occupied the entrance to the Peruvian national criminal court,...
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Ode to June Jordan’s ‘A Poem about My Rights’
By Kai M. Green on March 25, 2016
Inspired by the work of June Jordan we have both offered artistic, sonic, and poetic meditations on June Jordan’s, A Poem about My Rights.
A Legacy of Resistance
By Guest Contributor on March 24, 2016
words run deep, trickling through layers of Israeli propaganda and lies spoonfed to American audiences of CNN and FOX News. She wove truth...
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A Love Note to June Jordan from Margo Okazawa-Rey
By Guest Contributor on March 21, 2016
You loved South African women struggling to Free South Africa and wrote for them “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Your love of...