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Because Women Matter
For several weeks now, I’ve been posting to Facebook articles about women’s reproductive health, and in particular the Romney campaign’s misogynist disregard for crucial aspects of women’s lives. I’ve...
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Op-Ed: Abortion Rights Advocates Need to Knock Roe from its Pedestal
By Lynne Huffer “It’s Personal,” the new abortion rights campaign of the National Women’s Law Center, hinges on language like this: “Only you know what it’s like to walk in your shoes.” Another ad...
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Feminists We Love: Sandra Fluke
Although best known for her advocacy for gender equality and reproductive justice, for the last decade, Sandra Fluke has devoted her career to public interest advocacy for numerous social justice...
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What Activists and Advocates Taught Us About the Future of Reproductive Justice
By Ed Goldman, Alexandra Minna Stern, Timothy Johnson, and Lisa Harris of the Program in Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice, University of Michigan In spring a dynamic group of activists,...
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Feminists We Love: Alison Piepmeier
It’s hard to say exactly what distinguishes good teaching from great teaching, but the evidence of transformative teaching is undeniable. Transformative teachers cultivate student followings. Students...
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Challenging the “Hard Right” Playbook: In solidarity with Dr. Mireille...
The “hard right” playbook on college campuses is all too clear: create a violent spectacle prompting anger and outrage; feign victimhood lamenting the toxic environment of today’s college campuses;...
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Toward a Feminist Politics of De-Criminalization and Abolition: Why We...
By Tamara L. Spira and Heather M. Turcotte We contest the criminalization of UC Santa Barbara feminist studies professor, Dr. Mireille Miller-Young. As feminists dedicated to fostering movements for...
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A Statement on the Hobby Lobby Ruling
The Feminist Wire finds the Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby to be a gross violation of women’s fundamental freedoms. SCOTUS has determined, in a narrow majority of 5-4, that a...
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Feminists We Love: Jessica Luther ~ Activist, commentator, and change agent
I am not sure when and where I first came in contact with Jessica W. Luther and her work, but ever since that moment I have been continually impressed by her brilliance, her passion for justice, her...
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Op-Ed: Feminism and the PIC: Why “Add-Incarceration-and-Stir” Doesn’t Cut It
By Jeanne Flavin and Laura Huss Many mainstream feminist and prochoice groups have been reluctant to adopt intersectional approaches and to declare common cause with other progressive movements. Yet...
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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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Black on Purpose: Race, Inheritance and Queer Reproduction
By Savannah Shange On the morning of my insemination, I stood chilly in a paper exam gown rechecking the sperm donor number on the side of the vial. My partner frantically searched the order email on...
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Facebook and Apple Want Your Unborn! Or, Why Corporations Should Keep Their...
By Sayantani DasGupta We all knew the Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision earlier this year, which ruled that corporations with religious owners cannot be made to pay for insurance coverage of...
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Slavery: the Haunting Legacy of Sterilization Abuse in California State Prisons
By Tala Khanmalek Last year the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) announced that nearly 150 female prisoners in California were sterilized without consent from 2006 to 2010. The state had been...
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#ShoutYourAbortion: I’ve Had Two Abortions and I Don’t Regret Either of Them
By Ashleigh Shackelford The first time I was pregnant, it was as a result of rape by my then boyfriend’s close friend. I was only 18. After being raped, I did not go to the hospital to get a rape kit...
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#ShoutYourAbortion: The Ethics of Reproduction
What does it mean to have a full life, if you’ve never had full agency?[1] I am the paternal granddaughter of a woman—Rebecca White Simmons Chapman—who had an illegal abortion. Nana was not a teenager...
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Self-Determination and the Struggle to End Violence Against Women Living with...
By Keiko Lane, MFT I don’t think we had slept together yet when he told me about the pills. He was, well, not exactly hoarding them, it was more intentional than that. He was collecting them. Counting...
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“All Lives Matter Act” Is a Blatant Attack on Black Female Bodies in Missouri
By Christine Assefa The deaths of Michael Brown, Jr., Vonderitt Myers, Jr., Kim King, and Kajieme Powell, and the Ferguson Uprising, thrust Missouri into the spotlight, exposing to the nation and the...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When You Renounced the Catholic Church (or sex with you)
By Stevie Lynn Hunter I remember the first time your fingers were inside of me, but nails inside of me have always bothered me because I only imagine how they would tear at me, and I was afraid I...
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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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