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On Black/Brown Girlhood, Black Feminism, and the Arts: A Conversation with Aimee Meredith Cox and Ruth Nicole Brown: Part II
Introduction: TFW Editorial Collective member, Darnell L. Moore, recently facilitated an insightful and incite(ful) dialogue on Black/Brown girlhood with scholars/artists/activists Ruth Nicole Brown and Aimee Cox....
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On Black/Brown Girlhood, Black Feminism, and the Arts: A Conversation with Aimee Cox and Ruth Nicole Brown: Part I
Introduction: TFW Editorial Collective member, Darnell L. Moore, recently facilitated an insightful and incite(ful) dialogue on Black/Brown girlhood with scholars/artists/activists Ruth Nicole Brown and Aimee...
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Rep. Jim Sensenbrenners' Posterior Fixation
Last week Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner was overheard saying that First Lady Michelle Obama should attend to her “large posterior” before lecturing Americans on eating right. ...
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France to pay for breast implant removal over cancer fear
The French government will pay for tens of thousands of women to have silicone breast implants removed over concerns about a possible link to a...
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For David Kato: A Love Poem: a Ugandan Gay Rights Activist, 1964-2011
By Joseph Ross Because my kisses are tender against your throat. Because my lips are not the steel hammer that snaps your neck...
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Transnational Parental – Child Abduction: ’Tis the Season to be Wary
By Anique John-Carter and Alanna Kennedy Transnational abduction frequently conjures up images of children being trafficked from one part of the world to another for economic...
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Remedy for a Homophobic/Biphobic/Queerphobic/ Transphobic Naija
By Adaku Chinenye Utah On Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 my country, Nigeria, passed an anti-gay bill through the Senate that would criminalize same-sex marriages and civil...
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Suit: Arizona authorities shackled pregnant inmate
A Mexican woman — a former inmate in Maricopa County, Arizona — claims in a lawsuit that sheriff’s officers mistreated her during and after her...
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The Intimacy of Mentoring
Let me be clear: As a daughter of the working class and a first-generation college student, I would not be where I am today without...
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Mentor or Ares?: Some Other Considerations on Mentoring
In his 2003 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush urged “the men and women of America” to mentor. He noted that “ne mentor,...
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Gingrich to gay man: Vote for Obama
When asked how he plans to engage the gay community in his bid for president, Newt Gingrich on Tuesday told a voter he wouldn’t be...
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Occupy Denver protesters disrupt vigil held to honor homeless who died in past year
After days of urging protesters to remove shanties from the Broadway sidewalk along Civic Center park, across the street from the site of Tuesday’s candlelight...
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Our Feminist Future
On the school grounds they call each other bitches with machine gun fury. This is the “new” term of “endearment”; a grand show of eye-rolling,...
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Off-the-Hook Black Feminist Mentorship: An Anti-Capitalist Re-evaluation
A lot of times, June Jordan couldn’t pay her phone bill. I held the disconnection notices in my own hands, sitting hungry and enthralled in...
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TFW Editorial Collective Forum on Mentoring
By Heather Laine Talley and Monica J. Casper Here we are, deep in the throes of the holiday season. Many of us are surrounded by...
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U.S. Poverty: Census Finds Nearly Half Of Americans Are Poor Or Low-Income
Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans – nearly 1 in 2 – have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on...
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Arpaio investigation results to be released
The Justice Department began its civil-rights investigation of Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio in 2008 and publicly disclosed the probe in March 2009 after months of complaints alleging...
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Kim Jong-il, North Korean Leader, is Dead
Kim Jong-il, the reclusive North Korean leader who has been battling ill health following a reported stroke in 2008, has died, the North’s official news...