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The Star Studded White Savior Industrial Complex in Haiti
By Natalia Cardona Patricia Arquette’s recent remarks during the Oscars made for strong debate among feminists of color and white feminists in the U.S. Arquette...
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Confronting the Rhetoric of “Black on Black Crime”: A Response to Derailing Strategies
By Xhercis Méndez This article is dedicated to all those who seek to produce justice in the face of state sanctioned violence vis-à-vis police brutality,...
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“Black Girls Matter”: An Interview with Kimberle Crenshaw and Luke Harris
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) released its groundbreaking report, “Black Girls Matter.” Ahmad Greene-Hayes, a guest...
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We Walk Among You: Poverty in the Ivory Tower
By Zoel T. Rodriguez I was in class today talking about poverty. We were discussing public benefits. Or rather, something having to do with poverty...
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Top Yoga Studios Unite to Racially Profile Black “Yoga Thief”
By Sabrina Strings His picture was not to go unnoticed. It was planned that way. Flyers showing his face were posted prominently; one was under...
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White People for Black Lives
By Zillah Eisenstein Revolutionary imagination is the most dangerous and therefore meaningful thing any of us have to offer. So I am writing in support...
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An Interview with Sherry Payne: Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Womanist
Monica: I first became aware of your work through the Black Infant Mortality Awareness Walk. Can you tell me more about the circumstances that prompted...
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Black Lives Matter / Black Life Matters: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Darnell L. Moore
In January 2015, The Feminist Wire and the University of Arizona will co-host the Black Life Matters conference in Tucson, Arizona. Free and open to...
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Afterword: Toni Cade Bambara’s Living Legacy
#BambaraOnTFW Sixty-nine essays, remembrances, love notes, poems, and videos and thirteen days later, my sister co-curator and co-editor, Heidi Renée Lewis and I are closing...
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The Seabirds Don’t Lie
Laura Whitehorn: Rubbish, really, and you showed me so later, narrating the tale of similar idiocies from liberals visiting a Black southern community, romanticizing what...
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Toni Cade Bambara’s Art of Bridging Praxis and Theory
Thabiti Lewis: Young feminists need to pay more attention to Bambara’s fiction and essays, which reveal a pioneering voice that betrothed answers to the range...
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The Authenticating Audience
Louis Massiah: On the contrary, when art is understood as a mode of political work, with the explicit goal of communicating a needed counter-narrative or...
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Towards Freedom from Violence: Queer and Trans People of Color Activism in the U.S.
By Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez As a queer migrant who got asylum based on my sexuality, I often feel exiled from progressive environments in the United States....
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TFW at the Upcoming National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference
Several members of The Feminist Wire will be in San Juan, PR for the National Women's Studies Association annual conference this November! Will you? If...
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Facebook and Apple Want Your Unborn! Or, Why Corporations Should Keep Their Hands Off Employees’ Ovaries
By Sayantani DasGupta We all knew the Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision earlier this year, which ruled that corporations with religious owners cannot be made...
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#FergusonOctober: Francesca Griffin–A Black Woman and the Police State
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes “we who believe in freedom cannot rest” I was in St. Louis, Missouri recently for #FergusonOctober, a call “to build momentum for...
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On Ferguson, the Fragility of Black Boys, and Feminist Futures
By Aliyyah. I. Abdur-Rahman Recently over dinner, my dear friend Sandy Alexandre, Associate Professor of Literature at MIT, and I were talking about both Michael...
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“No Climate Justice Without Gender Justice:” Women at the Forefront of the People’s Climate March
By Julie Gorecki “No climate justice without gender justice!” This was the banner slogan at the forefront of the women’s contingency that gathered for the...
