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Positively Speaking: An Interview with Maria Mejia
By: C. Jones The Feminist Wire has decided to place the voices of persons living with HIV/AIDS at the center of its 2011 World AIDS...
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TFW Editorial Collective and Guest Responses to the 2011 WAD Challenge
What will need to happen to achieve the goal of eliminating new HIV infections, AIDS related deaths, and discrimination? What can we do, collectively, to...
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Octavia McBride-Ahebee
The Japanese Teahouse To Greg Witcher I can now see the skirt hems of hants stitched by the hands of the living they keep with...
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HEALTH DESK: World AIDS Day 2011: Getting To Zero
By Elizabeth McSpiritt, MD, MPH Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, a day dedicated to bring awareness to those who have died from the disease and...
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Cheryl Clarke
one million black women and no mention of HIV/AIDS? vi. In this hostile corridor A quickening nostalgia suffuses me, this late evening fin...
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Tim’m T. West
“medicine” how i do it this not-always-easy how i keep strong on weak(er) days is i think of the joy beckoning for me to...
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2011 World AIDS Forum
If the AIDS epidemic has revealed the fragmentation of our society and more importantly the breakdown of African American communities, then, in the end, to...
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Holiday Films: Does This Year's Crop Misrepresent Women?
By Soraya Chemaly The Holiday movie season is here! And, true to form, as revealed in USC’s Annenberg School’s most recent study of gender in the 100...
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Call for Submissions: Trans-Scripts, an interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Irvine
Volume II: 2012, “Queer Interventions and Intersections” Journal Publication Date: April 15, 2012 Deadline for the submission of papers: January 1, 2012 Trans-Scripts – a...
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Mitt Romney's Evolving Attitude Toward Women
By Amanda Winkler Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are speaking out about GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s attitude toward women, asserting...
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Media, Sports and Black Queer Youth: Tayshana Murphy and the Dimming of Stars
I didn’t know Tayshana Murphy was gay. I’m from Harlem, and I like to think I’m tapped into important conversations among New York’s LGBTQ people...
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The Girls in The Band
The Girls in The Band, directed and produced by Judy Chaikin, Michael Greene, and Nancy Kissock, and edited by Edward Osei-Gyimah, literally screens in the...
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Writer/Activist Mona Eltahawy Arrested, Beaten, Sexually Assaulted By Police In Cairo
Mona Eltahawy — New York-based blogger, feminist activist, award-winning columnist and public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues — was arrested yesterday in Cairo. She’d...
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Locating Paule Marshall
The first time I encountered Paule (silent ‘e’) Marshall, I was an undergraduate—a first-generation college student—at the University of Chicago. I was majoring in sociology...
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Giving Thanks
All of us at TFW wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving! While you are enjoying your day with family and friends, we hope that...
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Young, Gay And Homeless: Fighting For Resources
A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities assert that somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay,...
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Exclusive: Bachmann Reception on ‘Fallon’—Unfunny, Guys
Commentator Megan Carpentier offers five songs The Roots—famous for their satiric walk-on song picks on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon”—could have used to “snark” Michele...