A Zimbabwean politician has sparked outrage by suggesting the spread of HIV can be curbed if women shave their heads, stop bathing and deliberately make...
Poetry of the Taliban, a soon-to-be-released collection of poetry written by Taliban fighters, faced a storm of criticism this past week. The book’s editors —...
The Endless Baptism For Palestine For the last few months, I’ve been working on a series of essays on Palestine. I’ve now written and erased...
By Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Hunger strikes have historically been used as a form of non-violent civil disobedience and protest. Liberation movements in the United States protesting...
Linda Martín Alcoff teaches philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the City University of New York, both at Hunter College and the Graduate Center....
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández is Associate Professor of American Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin....
Rosa-Linda Fregoso is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer. She is the author of six books and edited collections, and has over 50 essays published in print...
It’s been said that “mother” is a verb and not a noun. But of course, it’s both. Mothers are and mothers do, and quite often...
When I was eleven years old the Dance Theatre of Harlem came for the first time to Cincinnati, my hometown. Weeks leading up to the...
I often celebrate and lift up the names of two women–Audre Lorde and Toni Cade Bambara –who are not related to me by blood but...
to sleep all day in loving arms or call my mother and hear her say Bushra? I was thinking of you right now to...
I found, while thinking about the far-reaching world of the creative Black woman, that often the truest answer to a question that really matters can...
It was not that Ilana Randolph did not like people. She did. What she didn’t like was the way they looked at her, and at...
In 1977, I won my elementary school’s spelling bee, sending me to the regional match where, after several rounds, I was defeated by the word...
Dear Mummy, Thank you for living life with such joy even when life itself has not be generous to you. Thank you for teaching us...
I have always been awful at football. And for that, I give thanks. The first thing I want to do is to thank my mother,...
The defenders of the National Football League (NFL) have been busy. In the wake of the suicide of Junior Seau, on the heels of several...
By Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper Last year in TFW, we wrote about the gendered aspects of traumatic brain injury (TBI), noting stark differences between...