Entertainment
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Why I Haven't Given Up on Hip-Hop
By Amber Jones When did you first fall in love with hip-hop? This question frames one of my favorite films, Brown Sugar (2002). The film...
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First To Die: Evil Dead and Blackness in Horror
By Joshua Alston The victor in this weekend’s box-office battle was Evil Dead, the remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult-classic horror film, which roared into...
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Untangling the Knots: Understanding the Hair Politics of Black Women (Revisited)
By Mazuba Haanyama My central aim involves the politics of bodily performance, in negotiation with shifting realities of a post-Apartheid context, where constructions of gender,...
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Feminists We Love: Joan Morgan (Video)
Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist, author and a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The...
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Confessions of a Black Morrissey Fan
By Joshua Alston This week, Morrissey announced that he is canceling the remainder of his North American tour, due to an ongoing battle with a bleeding...
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Taking the white man-boy seriously
By Kyle Kusz The white man-boy is the most important cultural figure in America today. Hyperbole? Maybe. But, allow me to make a case that...
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Taunts, Tweets, and Black Girl Genius
By Salamishah Tillet “Baby girl genius,” is what I muttered when I saw Quvenzhané Wallis shine bright on the television screen last Oscar Sunday night. Beaming...
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On Beyoncé, Benedict, and the Volition of Women
By Lisa O’Neill At a school mass at my all girls’ Catholic High School, the priest said a homily about chastity, and in particular, sex...
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It’s a Wrap: After the Academy Awards
The 85th Annual Academy Awards have come and gone. According to some, including my 11-year old daughter Mason (a TFW Collective Member), the show was...
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Op-Ed: The Dangerous Limits of Race at the Academy Awards
By Roya Rastegar We are far from a “post-racial” society. The films nominated for Best Adapted or Original Screenplays reveal an intensifying compulsion to engage...
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Zero Dark Thirty and the Problem of Pakistan
Zero Dark Thirty has been the subject of heated debate since its early release on Christmas Day last year. A number of reviews have focused...
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Drunk On A Plane: Or, Why I Loved “Flight”
Almost a decade ago, I eagerly awaited the release of Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, thinking it was a boxing movie. It wasn’t, really—any more...
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Django in Philly
By Quincy Scott Jones On my last New Year’s Day in Philadelphia, I did what I always do on New Year’s Day in Philadelphia: I...
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"Beasts of the Southern Wild": An Affective Review
I have a confession: I didn’t like Beasts of the Southern Wild. And I don’t fully understand why. Don’t get me wrong; there were a...
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A Sliver of Silver in "Silver Linings Playbook": A Look at Mental Illness in Film
Hollywood is notorious for the ways it presents and brandishes mental health to mass audiences. In the rare instances in which a major motion picture...
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Five Things "The Sessions" Gets Right: Sex and Disability on Screen
So much of criticism, feminist critique included, hinges on highlighting what is wrong. In the case of film reviews, we so often ask what on-screen...
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(Insert Witty Scandal-Related Title Here): Continuing the Dialogue
By Brandon T. Maxwell The following is an attempt to respond to some of the critiques of my article, “Olivia Pope and The Scandal of...
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Yes, brotha—come GET me!: A Black Feminist’s (Late) Response to Think Like a Man
I just finished watching Think Like a Man for the first time on Starz. I resisted going to see the film when it was released...
