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Tales from the Kraka Tower
By Aphrodite Kocięda and Kyle Romano Tales from the Kraka Tower is a grassroots web-series that satirizes “diversity” in academia. What makes our series different from others is that we are all...
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La Femenista Presence
By Cynthia Estremera In college I was surrounded by white feminists and white feminism. I was co-President of our feminist group “The Third Wave” and made waves as a Latina who embraced the principles...
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Pretty Black Girls Just Don’t Exist
By Kaila Philo At least, this is what I’ve taken from you all these years. Black women aren’t meant to be love interests or high school crushes, dynamic leaders or multi-dimensional heroes; but rather,...
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Refusing to Compromise My Beliefs
By Christina Peterson As a student, I never thought I would be stuck in a place where I face the possibility of failing a class because I refuse to conform to another person’s beliefs. During my junior...
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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 so, please consider adding our presentations to...
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Love in a Time of Contingency: A Letter to Women’s and Gender Studies
By Gwendolyn Beetham “As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is...
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Touching Base with Tayari Jones: An Interview on Black Female Writers and...
By Eve Dunbar Tayari Jones attended a brunch in Brooklyn to which I was also invited a few weeks ago. Seven-deep in the a living room of our mutual friend, Tricia, the brunch party flitted from...
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On Feeling Depleted: Naming, Confronting, and Surviving Oppression in the...
By Nicole Nguyen and R. Tina Catania “There is a politics to exhaustion. Feeling depleted can be a measure of just what we are up against.”[1] Meet Stuart. He’s a fellow doctoral student. Watching...
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Op-Ed: Why We Need Critical Ethnic Studies in Arizona (and Everywhere Else)
By Michelle Téllez I find it imperative to call attention to the disconnect between Ethnic Studies as a discipline and the communities from which it emerged. Universities, and many individual faculty...
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Feminists We Love: Wagatwe Wanjuki
Wagatwe Wanjuki is a feminist activist working and living in the New York City area. She uses new media tools to advance social justice. You can learn more about her work here. Stephanie: Wagatwe, I’ve...
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In Support of Professor Steven Salaita: A Letter to Chancellor Phyllis Wise
By Robin G. Kelley Dear Chancellor Wise, Please do not ignore or delete this letter, or have your administrative assistant file it away. I understand that you’ve been inundated with correspondence,...
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Two Poems by Lorean Galarza
Error: Page Not Available I’m sorry. What you are asking for is not an option. This page Is Not Available. Error. My breasts are my own. Do not ask me if you can see them. My waist is my own....
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Baby Gammy and the Problem of Women’s Labor
By Raj Patel In a recent opinion piece in The Guardian, Suzanne Moore likens inter-country surrogacy to a “twisted version of slavery,” one where “poor women are disposable receptacles for the...
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On Ferguson’s Protest and Its Occupation
By Vanessa Lynn Lovelace Associated Press/Jeff Roberson On Saturday, August 9, 2014 at around noon, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Eyewitnesses...
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Police Militarization, Race, and American Ideology: A Response to Dan Arel...
By Carolyn Davis Just about 15 months ago, I sat in front of my television in Brookline, a Boston suburb, and watched on live TV as police officers rolled armored vehicles down the streets of...
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Faculty Against Rape: Press Release
The Feminist Wire is honored to support Faculty Against Rape (FAR). We reprint their press release, issued today, in solidarity with FAR, faculty members who seek to address sexual violence on college...
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Bringing “All” to the Tent of Communal Healing
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes Inspired by the story of a Black enslaved woman, Margaret Garner, Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved explores the narrative of Sethe, who killed her daughter Beloved to protect...
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Perseverance Conquers: An Open Letter
By Princess Harmony-Jazmyne Rodriguez The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not...
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The Myth of Diversity and Critical Thinking in American Academia
By Brittany Chávez and Louis Yako The authors of this piece refuse the pitfalls of identity politics, but we both connect deeply and find ourselves situated with people, whom, in today’s world, count...
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How Useful is a Feminist Approach to History for Historians?
By Grace Corn In today’s world, the very word “feminism” can stir up polarized reactions. As a feminist myself, I find it difficult to understand how feminism, in Pat Robertson’s words, “encourages...
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