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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Everyone Should Be a Feminist
By Aisha Jitan Everyone should be a feminist. Tell me you are a believer of justice, true freedom, A believer in fundamental human rights. Tell me now, how are you not a feminist? They dehumanize,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Being
By Malia Nahinu A painful existence— Confusing messages, Spoken to us as children in anger From protective mothers, “DO NOT WALK ALONE AT NIGHT.” Dresses and flowery bows in our hair; A doll: Forced to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Rainy Days
By Sarena Tien “It’s her fault that she got rained on” is tantamount to saying, “It’s her fault that she got raped.” Why? Look around you. Consider the clear disparity between men and women, the...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When You’re Not Physically Masculine: Colorado College’s...
By Jade Pearl Frost Photo from Colorado College NCHT website. Colorado College from Shove Chapel. When I first stepped foot onto Colorado College’s campus as a freshman, I was amazed by the beautiful...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, The Model Minority Myth: “Performing” Asian
By Angela Kong LTAB was founded over a decade ago by the group Young Chicago Authors (YCA). It is considered the largest youth poetry competition. “What’s your major?” They ask me. I pause. I always...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, “No Matter What Machines Do To You:” Navigating...
By Iman Williams Gloria Richardson pushing away a national guard bayonet in Cambridge Maryland in 1963. It’s been two years since I signed the papers to withdraw from Emory University. When signing, I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, “Wrong or Right, Black or White?”: The Convergence of...
By Jazlyn Andrews “The Cat” Batman #1, 1940. Have you ever felt so intrigued by a fictional character that you want to explore every facet of them until they practically jump off the page into...
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Black Feminism Will Save My Life
By Eric Anthony Grollman Like most Black folks, I have a Black woman to thank for my existence (my mother) who, in turn, has another Black woman to thank for her existence (my grandmother), and so on....
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How I Built Community While Researching Accountability
Content Notice: This article is part of the #LoveWITHAccountability forum on The Feminist Wire. The purpose of this forum and the #LoveWITHAccountability project is to prioritize child sexual abuse,...
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Becoming Each Other’s Harvest
Content Notice: This article is part of the #LoveWITHAccountability forum on The Feminist Wire. The purpose of this forum and the #LoveWITHAccountability project is to prioritize child sexual abuse,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Capital-P-Productivity
By Laura Honsig “Capital-P-Productivity” is what a friend of mine called it once. For a long time I’ve been trying to put words to an experience I have had again and again, and this phrase comes pretty...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Renewed Call to Action: Argentina Speaks Out against...
By Fiona Gilligan Photo credit: Fiona Gilligan. Protestors with art and murals. It is Monday, 6 June 2016. A year since the inaugural march, organizers of the mass social-media-born movement...
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Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: “It Hurts”
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 to most folks in Hawai’i – Donald Trump is the ultimate haole....
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My Disability is a Joke
By Caddie Alford What if your disability were just a punchline? Online at The New York Times Opinion, they’re thinking about disability. Funny how quickly these conversations are dulled, transformed...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When Being Sex Positive Isn’t Enough
By Chloe Sariego XXX Neon Sign Since binaries are so early 2000s, I’m increasingly less interested in “pro” and “anti” porn debates. I’ve been a pro-porn feminist for most of my young feminist-hood,...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Volunteering Abroad: Harmful or Helpful?
By Manon Arundhati Fabre While considering my options for the upcoming 2016 summer, I took a particular interest in searching for volunteering opportunities in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I was surprised to...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Why I Read the Comments
By Amelia Roskin-Frazee **Content Warning: sexual violence, hate speech** We’ve all had at least one friend tell us, “Don’t read the comments.” The Comments. The He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named section of...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, First World Problems: How Language Reproduces the...
By Chichi Okonkwo The 21st century has seen continued “cloud” popularization and, with it, memes. The commonality of memes and our propensity to reduce sentences to sound bites is possibly the reason...
View Article#Feministcare: TFW on winter break December 2016
Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. Though we need each other now more than ever, TFW needs a break. This radical feminist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist intervention is the...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Not All Art Is Painted: How A Week Without Makeup Can...
By Jordan Prochnow Makeup. Makeup can be a double-edged sword for me. With it, I feel great; without it, I feel self-conscious. Makeup makes being a teenager in high school difficult because there is...
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