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Fixing the World: A Feminist Intervention
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 provocative suggestions for instigating social...
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Disabilities Studies Gains Cultural Capital? And Now What?
By Alyson Patsavas Alyson Patsavas at the Code of the Freaks panel. Photo courtesy of the author. I attended my very first Society for Disability Studies conference in the summer before I started a PhD...
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Cognitively Accessible Language (Why We Should Care)
By Elizabeth Grace If you use plain language to describe and discuss even complex theories, more people will be able to read your writing. Not everyone will believe this is a good thing. There are...
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Op-Ed: Economic Barriers in Disability Studies
By Corbett Joan OToole It’s a dirty little secret in Disability Studies that only people with a lot of disposable income can participate. If you have no money, you have little or no participation in...
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No More Civility: Putting an End to UConn’s Violence and Silence
By Martina Powell and Lauren Todd When University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst addressed the recently filed Title IX complaint against the university as “astonishingly misguided” and...
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An Open Letter to UConn Students
By Judy Rohrer I am choosing the form of an open letter as a tribute to the courage UConn student Carolyn Luby showed when she issued her open letter to President Susan Herbst last April, critiquing...
View ArticleFeminist Theory: A College Forum
Last semester, I taught a course in feminist theory. The primary goal of this course was to have students read feminist theories, but with a constant eye not only on the centrality of the category...
View ArticleConversations With My Abuelita
By Isabel Hibbard I like to think that I have helped my abuelita cope with the pain of her past, especially during her loneliest years in the United States, the mid 1990s. I was four years old and my...
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TFW Available for Women’s History Month!
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 three-pronged mission: feminism, anti-racism, and...
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Let Your Anger Consume the World, Not You
By Samantha Pevear I lie on my bed with my legs against the wall, feet arched towards the ceiling. I begin banging my heels into the wall, watching as small indentations begin to deepen the potholes...
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The Sentiment of Success
By Camille Evans I am an artist, a feminist, and a reluctant perfectionist. But what I am certainly not is—emotional. When it comes to self-expression, I find myself to be an utter failure, desperately...
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A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia
A Review of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia By Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde Women of color in academia are at a crucial crossroad. Within the inherently...
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TFW at Transnational Feminist Practices Conference
TFW Co-Founder and Managing Editor Tamura Lomax will be speaking at the Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices conference hosted by the Barnard College Center for Research on Women on...
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The Lorde Works in Mysterious and Magical Ways: An Introduction to TFW’s...
I write libation to all those known and unknown ancestors across lifetimes that have gone before me and upon whose shoulders I literally stand. Audre Lordecopyright Dagmar Schultz Tuesday, February 18,...
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Audre Lorde Comes to Spelman College Archive 2009
By Opal Moore Audre LordeImage copyright: Dagmar Schultz “I must always be/ building nests in a windy place” . Audre Lorde, “Portrait” . “Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the...
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Are You Doing Your Work? White Transmen Holding Ourselves Accountable to...
By Andrew J. Young Audre LordeImage copyright: Dagmar Schultz When Aishah Shahidah Simmons first asked me to submit a piece to The Feminist Wire’s forum on Audre Lorde, I have to admit, I was nervous....
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A Love Note To Audre
By Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck (9 February 2014) Dearest Audre, It’s me Cassandra. So much has happened in my life since that spring evening in Munich in 1988 where you convinced me to interpret your...
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Meaning to Survive
By Lynn Roberts © Dagmar Schultz Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. ~ Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light 1988 On the eve of my 52nd...
View ArticleCall for Submissions: “Beyond Critique: Feminist Strategies in the 21st Century”
Editors: Susannah Bartlow (guest editor), Stephanie Gilmore, Duchess Harris. A lot of the daily cycle of social justice work involves hassle, toxicity and disrespect. Whether turning outward to address...
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On Audre Lorde
By Rev. Dr. Valerie Bridgeman, Hebrew Biblical Scholar Audre LordeImage Credit: © Dagmar Shultz Professor Paula Cooey introduced me to the writings of Audre Lorde in a “Women, Religion, and Literature”...
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