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Clarity (On Clarence Thomas and the Worth of Black Life)
Yesterday, my dad sent me an article from Slate Magazine about a Supreme Court decision written by Clarence Thomas that effectively argued that a black man,...
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“Eating the Other” (at Fat Ho Burgers): Desire and Resistance (Remixed)
At the corner of 11th Street and Ross Avenue in Waco, Texas sits a new eatery: Fat Ho Burgers (or, as some like to call...
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Regrets: Professor Manning Marable
The editors of TFW note with great sadness the passing of Manning Marable, director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia...
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Prescription for Relief
Sex-Crimes-Exhibition-Press-Image-Jan-2011 By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman A few weeks ago I attended an exhibit at the Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn, called “Sex Crimes against...
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Going Postal: The Right’s Sleight of Hand
Most of us remember the widespread atmosphere of optimism that followed Barack Obama’s victory over John McCain. Many also remember statements from some groups on...
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Introducing: Adam Thomas…
TFW welcomes Adam Thomas to our Editorial Collective. Adam Thomas is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at University of California, Irvine, with a...
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Sixty-two hours in Cairo
By Adam John Waterman For Beth Cleary and Peter Rachleff The history of civilization which began in Egypt was not so much a matter of...
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Regrets: Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro
We regret the passing of Geraldine Ferraro, who died on Saturday, 24 March, at the age of 75. In 1984, Congresswoman Ferraro made history when,...
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Up a Tree
All things being equal (which they rarely are), U.S. military intervention in Libya should pay off to the decided advantage of this North African nation’s...
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Special Message from the Editors: Welcome, Dr. Tamura Lomax
The Feminist Wire is proud to welcome Dr. Tamura Lomax aboard! Congratulations to Tamura for a brilliantly successful dissertation defense at Vanderbilt University on Monday,...
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Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk
It’s a hot, muggy day in London. There’s a yellow haze around the city. You’ve been trawling through shops in Covent Garden for hours with...
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Where Are the Radicals?: Islam(ophobia) and Black Urban Politics
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman Who is it that said the more things change, the more they stay the same? If the last decade is any harbinger...
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Special Message from the Editors
We are delighted that our colleague and Editorial Collective member—Nahum Chandler—and his family—his wife Ayumi and their son Aaron—are doing fine. Residents of Kyoto, Japan,...
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The Banality Of Dehumanization: The Case of Infant Gendering
Target is now in the business of selling sex toys or, to be more precise, cock rings. I know this because on a recent trip...
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The Wrong One, Let In
On Friday, March 4th, Connecticut police finally arrested the infamous “East Coast Rapist.” Now known as 39-year old unemployed truck driver Aaron H. Thomas, the...
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Where Are We?
It is even past my bed time at 3 o’clock, Thursday morning, 10 March 2011. But if we’re reading this right, we all have miles...
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Pity the Poor Latvians
Steven Barnes, our welcomed guest contributer, is a professional writer, lecturer, coach and television writer, juggling the challenges between each and maintaining both a blog of...
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A World of Contradictions
Since security forces and militia loyal to Libya’s Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi attacked groups of peaceful protestors on February 17th, widespread bloodshed, disappearances, fear and anger...