Feminism Archives

"True crime" relies on the manipulation and simplification of facts to create entertaining narratives. Elena Kiejliches, who was featured on Snapped in 2004, reveals how her story was twisted to perpetuate harmful stereotypes about women's violence.

Feminism

'It's not a story—it's a life:' A look at Snapped, from the inside

Hairstory

Barbie: Pretty Police

Come on Barbie, give us nothing!

"Dark Matter": A poem for grief & other loves

How Tina Turner's trauma remains a hip-hop trope—and why we need to abolish it

Who said we all survived?

Five Black Southerners you should know this Women's History Month

The number of women in U.S. prisons is skyrocketing, but little data exists about their experiences.

Women have long borne the brunt of over-policing. Now, they're the fastest-growing incarcerated population in Texas.

Treva Lindsay and Melissa Harris-Perry on misogynoir, poverty, and violence

How radical feminist politics shaped one of ATL's most beloved neighborhoods

A Native Crew asks: 'Whose land are you skating on?'

'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics

"If we can dismantle patriarchy and capitalism, we might be onto something"

Fighting climate gentrification with a radical community garden

Black Body As Told By The Stirrups

I know the culture that produced Kavanaugh: tradition and violence at D.C. prep schools

Midwifery makes a comeback in Alabama

Linea Nigra

A bill that gives human rights to embryos is headed to the South Carolina Senate floor

Spilling new entrances for queer Black feminist possibilities

Ain't coming back again

Flora Crater, Southern state politics, and the ERA

Two poems: "The Ancestral Wombyn" and "Whispers From the Womb"

Two poems: "Muse Redaction" and "Are There Parts of You People Wear Around?"

Scenes in the lives of two Mississippi matriarchs

What would it really mean to have a woman as the U.S. President?

Re-booting the feminist bookstore