-
It's Not The Load That Breaks You Down; It's The Way You Carry It
By Kamilah Aisha Moon Five strong, consistent years as an adjunct professor. So what? So what you spend extra, unpaid hours assisting students who arrive needing...
-
Occupying Myself: Resisting the Colonial Voices Within and Accepting My Heaviness
By Erin “Mari” Morales-Williams Right now I am depressed. My aunt’s husband sexually violated me when I was a teenager, and since she is still...
-
With Audre as My Guide: Teaching and Surviving in Post Katrina New Orleans
By Sandra E. Weissinger I started my career as a sociologist in New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina. The school I worked at still...
-
I’m Exhausted but I Do Want to Be Well: Raising Womanish Girls, the Performance of Mothering and Wading in Murky Waters
By Melva L. Sampson I am exhausted! It is exhaustion that overwhelms and overruns me because of its deep-seated roots. Roots that make one question...
-
Good Night Women
"ripping hot and fierce down the night sky till they are out of our pining sight, too quickly, more frequently than we can bear, their incandescent metal, incinerating,...
-
Illinois Establishes Scholarship for Undocumented Migrants
Applications for the new DREAM fund scholarship in Illinois will begin Thursday, November 1. The DREAM fund was created by state legislation and passed in...
-
The Shape of My Impact
Sounds to Me Like A Promise: On Survival (After Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years by Dagmaar Schultz) “I love the word survival, it always sounds...
-
Under Ivory-Tower Eyes: Influence of Womanist Warriors as Public Intellectuals
By Lindah Mhando This is a dedication to my dear sister friend Aaronette White. The use of the word “warrior” doesn’t suggest women as warmongers ready...
-
Can I Live?
By Analena Hope “Can I live?” This simple yet resounding question has been posed a number of times in different ways by Black feminists within...
-
Black (Academic) Women's Health: To Be in Context
By Tressie McMillan Cottom My great grandmother used to pay me to talk, about anything and nothing. She just “loved to hear that child speak!”...
-
Afterword: On Voting
Over this past week, TFW Collective members and guest writers have had their say about electoral politics, generally, and voting, specifically. Over and over again,...
-
White Rage, Black Obama
Reflections on the DNC: Part 2 The hysteria that characterizes these commotions convinces me that the current American political...
-
He’s Not the One We’ve Been Waiting For: Thoughts on Collective Effervescence, Stockholm Syndrome, Reluctant Voting, and Reclaiming “We”
“And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if...
-
Voting as an Act of Reckoning with Communal Obligations
I grew up in South Texas listening to startling accounts of Mexican Americans robbed of their right to vote by power holders so threatened...
-
A Response to "Voting as a Radical Act": A Word on the Shade of Shade…
By: Jakeya Caruthers Though an old trope, what makes a sketch like “I Know Black People” so electrically hilarious is its sharp challenge to the...
-
Voting as a Radical Act
By: Isaiah M. Wooden and Darnell L. Moore In a different presidential election year, 2004, Comedy Central’s ever-popular sketch series, Chapelle’s Show, featured a boundlessly...
-
My First Vote
It’s a strange time to be a young woman in America and to be facing voting for the very first time. When women are still...
-
Queer the Vote
By: Samuel “Basil” Soper In first grade, my teacher asked, “Do you know who your parents are voting for?” I announced to my peers that...