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The first ever United Nations report on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people details how around the world people are...
More than 500 people were wrongly imprisoned in Denver’s jails over seven years, with some spending weeks incarcerated or pleading guilty to crimes they did...
A judge ordered two men, ages 34 and 18, to stand trial on kidnapping, gang rape and hate crime charges for allegedly gang raping a...
Tita Caldwell, 80, led the charge of women with walkers and wheelchairs, against Bank of America in San Francisco, CA. last week, explaining that she...
By Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. I was prepared to be scared for HOW hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and pop Diva Beyoncé would introduce their daughter, Blue Ivy,...
By David J. Leonard The college football season came to an end last night. It marked the conclusion of a bowl season that has been...
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, was gathering a group a conservative legislators to stealthily assist in drafting and enacting a Ceauşescu-like law requiring all...
Cesson-Sévigné, a suburb of Rennes, France, has banned the use of the title “mademoiselle” on all official forms starting January 1, 2012. Two feminist groups...
By Soraya Chemaly Today the FBI updated it’s circa 1920 definition of rape. Until today, rape was still defined as “The carnal knowledge of a female...
TFW welcomes Aimee Meredith Cox to the Editorial Collective! Aimee Meredith Cox, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor of performance and African and African...
TFW welcomes C. Riley Snorton to the Editorial Collective! C. Riley Snorton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University....
Three white women crowd the ticket window. “What is Pariah?” one asks, flustered. The ticket vender stammers. “It’s, uh, kind of a slice-of-life among kids...
By Soraya Chemaly, TFW special correspondant The U.S. ranks 40th in the world for women’s political empowerment and we’re losing ground. Fortieth. This ranking, based on 2010 data,...
TFW wishes you and yours the very best in 2012–more love, more wisdom, more justice, more patience, more happiness, and of course, more opportunities to...