WMC News & Features
June 01, 2020 | Jennifer Suchland | Race/Ethnicity
White women, we have a very, very serious problem

White Americans must disavow, relinquish, dismantle, and divest from white supremacy at an individual and institutional level.

WMC News & Features
March 21, 2019 | Aviva Stahl | International
The Christchurch shooter fits the profile of most mass shooters: white and male

This attack, like almost all mass shootings, was perpetrated by a man.

WMC FBomb
September 04, 2018 | Julie Zeilinger | Arts and culture, Race/Ethnicity
This children’s book author is teaching her readers about white privilege

Higginbotham has covered topics including death, sex, and divorce. Recently, she told the FBomb about her newest book, Not My Idea, which tackles racism and white privilege, and is available now.

WMC News & Features
May 15, 2018 | Koritha Mitchell | Race/Ethnicity
New memorial and museum: where the “community” impacted by lynching includes women

The new lynching memorial and museum in Montgomery, Alabama, model a powerfully inclusive approach to history.

WMC Women Under Siege
August 12, 2017 | Lauren Wolfe | Media, Politics, Race/Ethnicity
Trump, women, media: White supremacy in Charlottesville has taken a village

No, Donald Trump is not Adolph Hitler.

That this horrific idea exists, floating in our collective ethos and demanding a refutation is shocking. But this is where we are, and the failure to address the horror only means a greater evil is sure to come.

WMC Women Under Siege
August 12, 2017 | Lauren Wolfe | Politics
Why it suddenly might not be crazy to compare Trump to Hitler in 1933

In November 2016, a scholar named Sebastian Schutte—a Marie Curie fellow at the Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz in Germany—wrote an interesting article in The Washington Post. In it he argued that Trump had not reached Hitlerian heights. Not yet.

WMC FBomb
January 03, 2017 | Vicki Soogrim | Feminism, Race/Ethnicity
On the Ground: An Interview With The Founders of Columbia University's First South Asian Feminism(s) Alliance
In the fall semester of 2015, the first ever South Asian Feminism(s) Alliance (SAFA) was introduced to Columbia University. SAFA founders and Barnard alumnae Sarika Kumar, Mallika Walia, and Kaavya Ma...
WMC Live
November 12, 2016 | Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Smeal, Maria Teresa Kumar | Misogyny, Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #187: Gloria Steinem, Maria Teresa Kumar, Eleanor Smeal, Salamishah Tillet. (November 13, 2016)
Robin on dread, resilience, where we are now, and where we're going. Guests: Special Election 2016 Analysis Roundtable, with Gloria Steinem, Maria Teresa Kumar, Eleanor Smeal, Salamishah Tillet—on what happened, and strategies for what's next.
WMC FBomb
August 23, 2016 | Karla Majdancic | Feminism, Girls, Media, Race/Ethnicity
Being A Swifty Who Rejects White Feminism
Hi, my name is Karla, and I have been a die hard Swifty for as long as I can remember. I pre-ordered all of Swift's albums, We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together was one of my favorite shower songs...
WMC FBomb
April 24, 2016 | Vicki Soogrim | Feminism, Race/Ethnicity
It's Time To Start Exercising "Oppositional Resistance"
For a long time, the feminist movement failed to include the voices of marginalized groups. While criticism of this reality has seemed to particularly emerge in recent years, the feminist movement mus...
WMC FBomb
February 16, 2016 | Reilly W | Feminism, Misogyny, Race/Ethnicity
How I Am Trying To Overcome A White Feminist Mindset
As a straight, upper middle class, private school educated, white teenage girl, my first understanding of feminism was undeniably "white feminism." This type of feminism is one that fails to address i...
WMC Speech Project
February 10, 2016 | Jacqueline Wernimont | Education, Online harassment
Social Norms, Not Tech, Fuel Abuse
September 8th There is a man in my living room saying that feminists on a university campus “should be shot to death and remaining survivors tied to a tree with their throats slit with a dull knife.”...
WMC FBomb
January 05, 2016 | David Guirgis | Feminism, Misogyny, Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
What The Reaction To Sandra Bland's Case Reveals About White Feminism
Sandra Bland, an African-American woman arrested for failing to use her turn signal, was found dead in her jail cell three days after her arrest in July. On Wednesday, December 23, a Texas grand jury ...
WMC FBomb
August 25, 2015 | Saskia G | Body image and body standards, Education, Feminism, Misogyny, Race/Ethnicity
On Women's Equality Day, Let's Talk About White Feminism
I used to be a White Feminist. As a white woman, I thought it was my only option. But, as a video produced by the Huffington Post and a thoughtful post by the young star Rowan Blanchard both explai...
WMC Live
July 03, 2015 | Naomi Oreskes, Negin Farsad, Sini Anderson | Politics, Race/Ethnicity, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #132: Naomi Oreskes, Negin Farsad, Sini Anderson. (Original Airdate 7/4/2015)
Robin on SCOTUS rulings and domestic terrorism. Guests: climate science defender Naomi Oreskes; Muslim feminist comedian Negin Farsad; and documentary filmmaker Sini Anderson's new subject—women and Lyme Disease. Plus, Surrealism Corner.
WMC Live
June 26, 2015 | Melissa Silverstein, Gayle Lemmon, Liz Garbus | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #131: Melissa Silverstein, Gayle Lemmon, Liz Garbus. (Original Airdate 6/27/2015)
Robin on racism, Charleston, the battle flag of the Confederacy and the 2nd Amendment. Guests: Liz Garbus, director of documentary on Nina Simone; Gayle Lemmon on women soldiers in special ops; Mellissa Silverstein on Hollywood's "genderquake."
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