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What to Do When God Hates You: A Lordeian Intervention in the Face of the Westboro Case
Last week the United States Supreme Court voted eight to one in favor of a definition of free speech that includes hate speech on what...
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"If You Scared Just Say It": Black and Queer with Nothing to Prove- A Preview of Shirlette and the Dynamite Brothers
Play the song before it plays you. Turn it on before game recognizes game. Touch the wound inside before it heals. This is the...
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Our Reproductive Dystopia: Or, WTF?
Republicans are on the warpath, and their enemy is women. Okay, maybe not all women. Just poor women. And those who are disabled and/or chronically...
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The Pence Amendment: Waging War on the Poor
By Ulli K. Ryder Is there a “war on women?” Does the recent amendment to deny federal funding for Planned Parenthood signal a concerted attack on...
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Assault
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman A new billboard went up in SoHo last week, placed at a busy intersection on Sixth Avenue a few feet...
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Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too
In the world of newspapers, “beneath the fold” apparently means that the feature bears only secondary interest or importance compared to what is situated above...
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James Baldwin: Still So Much To Teach Us
More GRITtv “The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which...
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Spanx and The Marketing of "Normal" in a Fatphobic Culture
By now you’ve likely heard of Sara Blakely’s 21st century girdle alternative, Spanx. Perhaps you’ve even tried them out, or like me, don them religiously—with...
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Foreign Policies
According to operatic lore, the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the opening of the Cairo Opera were supposed to have occurred conjointly with the...
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Mississippi "Odd" (Damn): Black Feminism is Unbelievable
“It just sounds really odd. You know?” This is what a white male police officer said to me several times after he separated my partner...
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Be My (Feminist) Valentine
In her book All About Love, bell hooks makes a startling claim. Her parents did not love her. They gave her enough food to eat, books...
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Introducing: Heather Laine Talley…
TFW welcomes Heather Laine Talley to our Editorial Collective. Heather Laine Talley is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Carolina University. Her teaching and...
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Less Is Not More
When I was growing up in the 1970s, my parents worked for a magazine distribution company in Chicago. My dad was a diesel mechanic and...
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Cupid Ain’t @#$%! (and neither is the symbolic violence of his arrow)
Chocolate hearts will melt, flowers will die, and millions of Americans will be left to foot the bill of yet another over-commercialized holiday. Valentine's Day...
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Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But I Am!
The following essay is a response to “Kanye West Is Not A Feminist But…” For more information, please see the initial essay as well...
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A Time for Action
Abu al Qasim al-Shabbi (1909-943) “Life’s Will” Then it was earth I questioned: “Mother, do you detest mankind? And earth responded: I bless people with...
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Women, Welfare Reform and the Progressive Agenda
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman After more than a year or so of procrastinating I finally watched Lee Daniels’s critically and commercially successful film “Precious: Based on...
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Does Traumatic Brain Injury Have a Gender?
By Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper In the words of American poet Adrienne Rich, “All wars are useless to the dead.” Yet, while...