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Message from The Editors: In Commemoration of 9/11
We wish to express our sincere sympathies for all of the victims of September 11, 2001, now ten years ago. The tragedy of that day...
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Making the Left TRANSPARENT; An Anti-Racist Feminist Friendly Critique, Again
By Zillah Eisenstein These are strange times. Rupert Murdoch and his media empire are finally exposed for hacking and deception and there is some accounting...
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A Review: Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project by Charles “Chas” Brack
By Darnell Moore “Sakia Latona Gunn: We Will Remember Her Name” (2008). Charles B. Brack (Producer) and Co-Produced with Third World Newsreel. Color; 58 minutes;...
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Music Feature: Diallo Hall on Sudanese "Girls' Music" and Artist Alsarah
In one of my favorite songs by Afro Beat progenitor Fela Kuti, he exclaims: If you call woman African woman no go ‘gree She go...
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Palin, Bachmann and the Political Feminism of the Right
As the 2012 Presidential election draws nearer, political observers and frontrunners alike are sure to begin reconstructing new and old partisan paradigms, with hopes of...
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Fitting In, In Beijing
My decision to go to Beijing, China for a summer literature institute provoked a variety of responses in those with whom I shared my plans. ...
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Message from The Editors: Submissions
As one of its features of coverage from time to time, TFW is pleased to invite submissions on women subjects–both contemporary and historic–who have made...
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Bad “Bitches,” True Women
By Sikivu Hutchinson As Middle America shuffles out of its hangover from the Casey Anthony trial and into the debt ceiling morass, the war on...
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Revolt of the Little Grey Cells
I’ve had it, dear readers. The gloves are off. Conservatives, you’d best take cover cause I’m about to verbally whup some Republican ass. After more...
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Featured Writer: shulamith eagle
Visit to the Androcologist The office is spacious, airy and full of plants and sunlight, yet it has the subtle aroma of a medical office,...
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Help for "The Help"
By Gwendoline Y. Fortune, Ed. D. Within twenty-four hours, friends sent three critical reviews of “The Help,” a film that is garnering high praise, boosting sales...
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From the Editors on "The Help"
We have been overwhelmed and overjoyed by our readers’ response to Duchess Harris’s article on the novel, The Help. We deeply appreciate the unprecedented number...
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Second (and Third, and Fourth…) Helpings: A Big Black Woman’s Thoughts on "The Help"
By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Until more recently than I’d like to admit, I constructed my identity in direct opposition to the image of the Mammy....
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Featured Artist: J'Nell Jordan, Painter
She Just Wanna Dance Oil and acrylic on masonite board Dimensions: 24″ x 36″ Sky High Daze Oil and acrylic on masonite board Dimensions: 24″...
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Beyond The Sacrificial Good Woman: Black Feminism and Freethought
By Sikivu Hutchinson In the 1997 film The Apostle, Robert Duvall plays a white Southern Christian fundamentalist preacher and murderer on the lam and seeking...
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Kathryn Stockett Is Not My Sister and I Am Not Her Help
By Duchess Harris, PhD, JD. I did not attend Wednesday’s movie release of “The Help” from DreamWorks Pictures, based on the New York Times best-selling...
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A View from London
At the time of writing, the protests that began two nights ago in the North London neighborhood of Tottenham have developed into full-blown riots in...
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Resurrecting the Great Mother
By Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW “I found god in myself and I loved her /I loved her fiercely.” – Ntozake Shange We come into this world...