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Re-Writing Political Scripts–Democracy and Transformation in Egypt
It is certainly true that politics is theater: Familiar scripts are activated and rehearsed given the assumed audience. And the political actors, despite any espoused...
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An Open Letter to Judge Cosgrove
The following letter was written in response to the prosecution, conviction and sentencing of Ms. Kelly Williams-Bolar on two counts of felony (tampering with records)...
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Making Sense of Violence in the Aftermath of Tucson
By Yolande M. S. Tomlinson The consensus in the mainstream media, both on the left and right, is that Jared Lee Loughner’s decision to shoot...
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A Response to Ron Neal's Essay, "Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But…"
TFW supports our writers’ prerogative to take unpopular positions on important matters, but from time to time, the editors will not agree with an...
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Scales and Measures
I’ve awakened early the last few days because school started in earnest this week. Funny thing how the oldest habits linger (this particular one has...
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Kanye West Is Not a Feminist But…..
By Ronald B. Neal I’ve been thinking about Kanye West and gender politics for quite some time. It began back in ’05 when his pop ular...
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A Method to His Madness? Gender-Based Violence in the Tucson Shootings
By Janell Hobson By now, we have heard various theories about why 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner may have shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head and...
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There Is Nothing Funny About Rape, But…
“There is nothing funny about rape, but…” appears in my inbox and introduces me to a video of a justifiably irate man defending his sister’s...
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The Zen of Young Money: Being Present to the Genius of Black Youth
I fly with the stars in the skies, I am no longer trying to survive, I believe that life is a prize, But to live...
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MLK was no Feminist but…
TFW celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. today—not because he was a self-proclaimed feminist, but because his politics were. King’s radical notion of the “beloved community,”...
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Mothering Ourselves Manifests
Lavender water, feather boas, dance breaks and booty shakes. Split pea soup and togetherness tasted. Queerness affirmed, fear and shame released, plants watered, seeds planted,...
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The Onus of Black Respectability
By Terrion L. Williamson Recently, I was reading a book about the lives of black women in America in which the authors recount the story...
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An Opening Notation on the Limits of Paternalism
By Nahum D. Chandler It has been said that we must be prepared in the progress of all reformatory movements for periods of exhilaration and depression,...
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Truth or Consequences
A self-described “Blue-Dog” Democrat, Arizona’s “Gabby” Giffords likely did not know her assailant, nor, ironically, that in 2007, she had written him, as one of...
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Access Denied: The Ins/Outs of “What’s Down There”
Gay people have been fighting for the right to keep what happens in their bedroom private, but when it comes to our privates everyone wants...
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Tucson Tragedy: Naming the Unspeakable
My daughters-Mason, 9 and Delaney, 6-are in Tucson this weekend with my parents, who live there. My mother took the girls to the Tucson Symphony...
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TFW's Statement on the Attack of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her Staff, and Constituents
TFW is deeply saddened by the vicious attack against Congresswoman Giffords, her staff, and constituents in Arizona today. Our sympathies are with all who have been...
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ADVENTURES IN RACE: NOTES ON MARK TWAIN’S HUCKLEBERRY FINN
The recent furor surrounding a new edition of Mark Twain’s nineteen-century classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has far-reaching implications beyond the crude oppositions of censorship...
