Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic—and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In The Fire This Time, Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation--a multiracial, multi-issue, and multicultural activist organization--and Vivien Labaton, its first executive director, offer an exciting cross section of feminist voices that express new directions in activism, identity, and thought. Ayana Bird dissects the role of black women in hip-hop; Joshua Breitbart and Ana Noguiera demonstrate how Indimedia can break the hold of the corporate media over the news; and Jennifer Bleyer reviews the exhilarating power unleashed by the GirlZine movement. Anna Kirkland’s analysis of transsexual and transgendered people and the law is deeply thoughtful, and Shireen Lee's piece on women, technology, and feminism envisions empowering prospects for women..

Ranging from media and culture to politics and globalization, The Fire This Time is a call to new frontiers of activism, and helps reinvent feminism for a new generation.

“A feast of original insights and radical acts by some of our generation’s sharpest writers and doers.” –William Upski Wimsatt, co-editor, How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office

“This first-rate collection of writings by young activists represents the new wave of gender, race and class analysis for the twenty-first century.”Manning Marable, Director, Center for Contemporary Black History, Columbia University

“This collection, by an extraordinary bunch of young people—mostly women, a few men—will awaken you and excite you. What they are writing and doing gives new life to the word “feminist.” If their ideas and actions take hold, we could have a different world.” –Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of The United States

“These feminists rock.”Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation

“These essays don’t simply tell us about third wave feminism, they show us its breadth and impact. By the end of The Fire This Time you will have a better understanding of the activism that’s required to change the world.” –Jennifer Baumgardner & Amy Richards, coauthors, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and The Future

Foreword: We Are Using This Power to Resist

REBECCA WALKER

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Introduction: Making What Will Become

VIVIEN LABATON AND DAWN LUNDY MARTIN

PART I CHANGING MINDS AND EYES: MEDIA AND CULTURE

Claiming Jezebel: Black Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expression in Hip-Hop

AYANA BYRD

An Independent Media Center of One’s Own: A Feminist Alternative to Corporate Media

JOSHUA BREITBART AND ANA NOGUEIRA

Cut-and-Paste Revolution: Notes from the Girl Zine Explosion

JENNIFER BLEYER

Can You Rock It Like This? Theater for a New Century

HOLLY BASS

The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism

SHIREEN LEE

PART II NEW ACTIVISM IN THE GLOBAL CITY

Exporting Violence: The School of the Americas, U.S. Intervention in Latin America, and Resistance

KATHRYN TEMPLE

Domestic Workers Organize in the Global City

AI-JEN POO AND ERIC TANG

A Baptism by Fire: Vieques, Puerto Rico

ELISHA MARÍA MIRANDA

When Transgendered People Sue and Win: Feminist Reflections on Strategy, Activism, and the Legal Process

ANNA KIRKLAND

Bearing the Blame: Gender, Immigration, Reproduction, and the Environment

SYD LINDSLEY

She Who Believes in Freedom: Young Women Defy the Prison Industrial Complex

ROBIN TEMPLETON

Afterword

Looking Ahead: Building a Feminist Future

VIVIEN LABATON AND DAWN LUNDY MARTIN

Coda

WILMA MANKILLER

Recommended Organizations

Notes

Acknowledgments