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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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Speak out for adjunct equity because your silence will not protect you
By Paula Maggio On the Ohio campus where I taught women’s studies for five years, the lavender Saturn of one of my most thoughtful feminist theory students was easy to identify. Its bumper was...
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bell hooks Remembers Toni Cade Bambara
In her 1999 book, Remembered Rapture: the writer at work, bell hooks devotes a chapter to remembering and celebrating the life and work of Toni Cade Bambara. Fifteen years later, on the occasion of The...
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It’s Not the Salt; it’s the Sugar that Will Kill You
By Kalamu ya Salaam Toni Cade BambaraPhotographer/copyright: Jane Poindexter Toni was unprocessed, natural sea salt. No chemical additives, too glitzy or trendy packaging, no capitalist mark-ups to...
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Toni Cade Bambara’s Art of Bridging Praxis and Theory
By Thabiti Lewis Maria Stewartsource: http://bit.ly/115SKYH The March 2014 issue of Ebony Magazine published an article by Jamilah Lemieux entitled “Black Feminism Goes Viral.” Lemieux mentions Black...
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Toni Cade Bambara: The Moment In-Between
By Dr. Eleanor Traylor The telephone rang insistently. I had just crossed the threshold of sleep having entered that territory where angels and demons stage a holy or profane war which consciousness...
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How Toni Cade Bambara Saved Me
By Imani Uzuri I was a heading into my sophomore year in undergrad, and took my first Women’s Studies class during that Summer. After a full year of beginning to be politicized around my Blackness, I...
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Liberation Legacy: Fifteen Years of the Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism...
By M. Bahati Kuumba and Malika Redmond Throughout the country in recent years, Black women have been forming work-study groups, discussions clubs, cooperative nurseries, cooperative businesses,...
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Feminists We Love: Linda Janet Holmes [VIDEO]
Linda Janet HolmesPhotographer: Sonali Gulati©AfroLez® Productions I firmly believe that my friendship/camaraderie with Linda Janet Holmes is one of many lasting gifts that Toni Cade Bambara gave both...
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Afterword: Toni Cade Bambara’s Living Legacy
#BambaraOnTFW Sixty-nine essays, remembrances, love notes, poems, and videos and thirteen days later, my sister co-curator and co-editor, Heidi Renée Lewis and I are closing The Feminist Wire’s online...
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Black Lives Matter / Black Life Matters: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors...
In January 2015, The Feminist Wire and the University of Arizona will co-host the Black Life Matters conference in Tucson, Arizona. Free and open to the public, the event aims to build on the visionary...
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Breaking News: An Open Letter of Love to Black Students: #BlackLivesMatter Dec
By blackspaceblog Black students and professors, Beaumont Tower, Michigan State University, December 6, 2014. photo by Darryl Quinton Evans We are Black professors. We are daughters, sons, brothers,...
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“What White Publishers Won’t Print:” Systemic Racism in (Institutionalized)...
By Mali D. Collins In 2013, I began an internship with an academic publishing press. It seemed to be the perfect combination of my dream job: higher education and publishing. I was a young writer, my...
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Two Poems by Ruth Corkill
By Ruth Corkill I Never Called You Lolita She’s a real glamour puss hmm. She doesn’t Just doodle around she actually Calls herself an artist, the sort of thing That makes my teeth curl, watch your...
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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis on Bitch Media’s “Propaganda”
From the Bitch Magazine website: What are young feminists excited about today? On this episode, we head back to school, talking with students around the country about feminism on campus. The first...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Buff, Black, Tattooed, and Feminist: On the Utility of a...
By Marquis Bey A feminist friend of mine—a 4’10” queer white woman—jokingly mocks my “bro-ness,” that is to say, my proclivity to throw around weights in the gym; my love for hip-hop; my boilerplate...
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We Walk Among You: Poverty in the Ivory Tower
By Zoel T. Rodriguez I was in class today talking about poverty. We were discussing public benefits. Or rather, something having to do with poverty and poor people and how terrible it is that some...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Divergence
By Brianna Suslovic You took me to my first protest when I was in the first grade, Mom, a peaceful affair outside the federal building downtown where the cops glared and we chalked the sidewalk,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Cops Can’t Come Here: How A Predominantly White...
By ray(nise) cange Preface: I started this piece before Mike Brown. Before we were protesting for our rights. I started this one day after running late to work because a cop thought I looked...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: The Day I Understood My Privilege
By Shama Nathan Retrieved from: http://internationalliving.com/fund-your-life/teaching-english/ My friend and I sat on his back porch, slithering in the Caribbean heat. We sat in quietness, mostly...
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