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Anne Braden: Defiant, Inspiring, and Self-Aware
Emblematic of a generation of men and women in the South that challenged their parents’ generation’s views on race, jobs, gender, sexuality, and a broader...
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Roe v. Wade's 40th Anniversary
By Rachel G. Fuchs This week, we commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that allowed women the fundamental human...
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Choosing Our Own Lives: Two 40-Something Feminists Reflect on Roe
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica J. Casper [Over a two-day period, TFW Collective Members Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica J. Casper shared an e-dialogue...
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Washington Post and 'Feminist Americans' Won't Let Michelle Obama Have It All
This began as an essay about the re-emergence of the “having it all” debate, led by Anne Marie Slaughter’s article in The Atlantic last year....
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What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About Gun Control
In the wake of the Newtown shootings, the airwaves have been vibrating—often furiously—with conversations about guns. And as always in the United States, the issue...
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Code Red Homophobia: Homelessness, HIV and Black Religiosity
For the past several months, Crenshaw Boulevard in predominantly black South Los Angeles has featured a series of striking billboards condemning homophobia and its role...
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Three Poems
by Alessandra Lynch mademoiselles d’avignon The one we look at as the one cursed hangs her orange beast-face, a block for a...
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Ovary
I left my ovary on the subway last night. Stepped out. Felt light. Heard the doors close behind me, and realized I’d left my ovary...
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Dismantling the Anti-Life Alliance
By Maria Faini In Marietta, Ohio, on an October afternoon just prior to the recent Presidential election, Tea Party and Catholic protesters confronted Nuns on...
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Two Internship Opportunities at TFW
Editorial Intern TFW seeks a part-time editorial intern, preferably an advanced undergraduate or early graduate student. Duties will include triaging manuscript submissions, tracking reviews, communicating...
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The Place of Our Spines: An Inter/Review of nomad of salt and hard water by Cynthia Dewi Oka
“Poems come to stand in the place of our spines.” -Cynthia Dewi Oka “notes on Captain Ahab’s workshop/ before the poet is harpooned” We are...
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Yes, I Do Look Like A Lawyer
By Maria Angela Johnson I have been an attorney for six years. Nonetheless, when I tell someone what I do, too often I hear this...
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Library of Congress digs into 170 billion tweets
An effort by the Library of Congress to archive Twitter posts has amassed more than 170 billion tweets, which the library is now seeking to...
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Poem Feature: "Moviemakers"
by e nina jay moviemakers are so clever and so programmed we are one cannot watch one hour of television live one day...
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Conversation Piece: Queer Fashion on Campus
During the 2012 presidential election, there was much conversation among journalists, bloggers, and activists about the innovative ways students were using social media to mobilize...
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E(race)sure, Queerness, and Civil Rights in the South: The Undocubus and the Legacy of Bayard Rustin
By Brittany D. Chávez As a queer woman of color artist-scholar-activist living in the U.S. South, I am deeply invested in historical legacies of queer...
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Exhuming the Ratchet before it’s Buried
Recently, social media was set ablaze after Oxygen revealed it was developing a reality TV show featuring rapper Shawty Lo (real name Carlos Walker) entitled,...
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Rape, American Style
By Sikivu Hutchinson On Violent Silence: When I was five years old I was sexually assaulted by neighbors. Ours was a tranquil post-white flight neighborhood...
