Search results for "Assata Shakur"
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What Will It Take to Free Our Political Prisoners?
By Liz Derias The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a revolutionary organization based in the u.s. that fights to uphold the self-determination and the human...
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Coming Home.
By Happy Mwende Kinyili My name is Mwende and I am a woman. These identities – woman, Kamba, young, sweet – have come easy to...
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The Black as the Thing in Deck-Erinnerung
By Athi Mongezeleli Joja “For the Negro who works on a sugar plantation in Le Robert, there is only one solution: to fight.” – Frantz...
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“I Am Not a Slave”: Remembering to Sustain and Connect Our Black Radical Traditions
By Wangui Kimari I am not a slave. Say it again. I am not a slave. These are words that have been getting Afrikans into...
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Sisters in Struggle: An Ode of Love
By Mazuba Haanyama In tribute to the life and legacy of Assata Shakur, we commune here, sisters bound in struggle, reflecting on the myriad of...
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Feminists We Love: Rosa Clemente
Rosa Clemente is an Afro-Puerto Rican grassroots community organizer, Hip-Hop activist, independent journalist, and scholar. She is a feminist we love because she boldly continues...
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Call for Submissions: TFW Love as a Radical Act Forum
Times always seem to be especially trying for those of us committed to transnationally eradicating anti-feminist, racist, and imperialist politics both publicly and privately. Like...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Finding Black Feminism: A Revelation of Black Hair
By Ravon Ruffin I recently had the opportunity to do an assignment that required me to articulate the ways in which Black Feminist Thought applies...
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Press Release: A Letter to Barack Obama (change.org)
The Feminist Wire supports the petition below. To add your name, please visit change.org. For more on Assata Shakur from us, please see forthcoming articles celebrating her...
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The Rise of Beyoncé, The Fall of Lauryn Hill: A Tale of Two Icons
By Janell Hobson Fifteen years ago, the stardom of then-23-year-old Lauryn Hill had peaked when she released what would become her defining musical legacy. After...
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Meditations of a Deviant Daughter
By Tanwi Nandini Islam When something happened. An allusion to something ominous from the distant past. I documented my rape thoroughly in my creative work,...
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Feminists We Love: Rahiel Tesfamariam
Rahiel Tesfamariam is an activist, writer, social commentator and public theologian. She is the Founder / Editor-in-Chief of UrbanCusp.com, a cutting-edge online lifestyle magazine highlighting progressive urban...
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You Call That a Black President? Or, How Stupid Do Mainstream Politicians Think Black People Are?
Reflections on the DNC: Part 1 I went to the Democratic National Convention on a press pass. I had secretly hoped to rediscover my desire...
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For My Sistah(s): A Black Feminist Queer Consciousness-Raising Book List
By Kiyan Williams I am the over-protective older brother of a fourteen-year old young black woman. And I am worried for her. I was worried...
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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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Bios
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,...
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The Violence, Anti-Blackness, and Black Life Matters Forum: An Introduction
The recent shooting and murder of 18-year old Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, galvanized a local movement for justice on behalf...
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K.O.S. (Determination): Black Communities Keeping It Real and Right
By Liz Derias “…among those that have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of overcoming.” ~ Mumia Abu Jamal, Death Blossoms: Reflections from a...
