Sept 15, 1976, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” premiered on Broadway for the first...
The Feminist Wire celebrates a multiplicity of feminist expressions from a variety of editors and writers that span genders, sexualities, professions, incomes, races, ethnicities, abilities,...
By Annie Menzel For white people working to align ourselves with justice, it makes sense to want to distance ourselves from Amy Cooper, the “Central...
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...
There aren’t any words that will articulate the depth of my deep gratitude and love for each of the twenty-nine individual #LoveWITHAccountability forum contributors who...
By Zillah Eisenstein Dear Cecile Richards, You are amazing, along with the huge Planned Parenthood apparatus that delivers health care and reproductive freedom to millions...
By Desiree Adaway I am a woman that makes her living helping individuals, communities, and organizations have difficult conversations, specifically the most important conversation to...
If we wish to sincerely practice intersectionality in our feminism, then we must look with eyes unclouded by idolization at the white feminists of the...
Susannah Bartlow, Stephanie Gilmore, and Duchess Harris We envision this forum as a way to map that terrain beyond critique in the means and moment...
March is Women’s History Month! And The Feminist Wire is available for speaking engagements. If you follow our work, you know that we serve a...
Today is the final day of 2013. And this year has been one that pushed many people around the world to deeply consider and interrogate...
Recently, NYU Press published 22 Ideas to Fix the World, edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa. It’s a fine book, full of smart, engaging, and...
By Sayantani DasGupta Like Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s other collaboration, television’s Southpark, Broadway’s Book of Mormon is crass, potty-mouthed, and frequently offensive. But among all the things...
By Hana Riaz For many Women of Colour feminists globally and in the West, our struggle with mainstream feminism remains an arduous and painful one....
By Josh Cerretti and Theresa Warburton What does it mean for a white person living in a white supremacist society to label themselves an ‘anti-racist...
By Cori Mattli When you are 18 and in college, you take a class that introduces you to feminism. You like thinking about feminist theory–it gives...
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By Joshua Alston This week, Morrissey announced that he is canceling the remainder of his North American tour, due to an ongoing battle with a bleeding...