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Poem Suite: Retold
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, three poets consider...
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New Revolutions? Finding and Naming Them for Transnational Feminisms
By Zillah Eisenstein My writing is a small offering to give political voice to the extra-ordinary attempt at trans-national and cultural and racial and class...
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Personal is Political: My Mother Speaks through My Poetry
Silvia Angulo writes about her relationship with her mother and her desire to write for #personalIsPoliticalonTFW.
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Why Is Academic Writing So Beautiful? Notes on Black Feminist Scholarship
By Emily Lordi The title of this piece responds to Joshua Rothman’s recent essay for the New Yorker blog, “Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?”,...
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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis Interviews Zadie Smith
TFW Associate Editor Heidi R. Lewis interviews author Zadie Smith for the Colorado College 2014 MacLean Symposium on Globalization, Literature, and Culture.
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Spike Jonze’s Her: Loneliness, Race, & Digital Polyamory
By Edgar Rivera Colón Spike Jonze’s Her is a cinematic tour de force, but it’s also a multi-layered cultural document of the present. Her, starring...
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Op-Ed: A Home of Our Own: Temporary Housing and LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
By Nicole S. Junior In 2012, twenty-one-year-old Romelle Johnson was transported by ambulance to a local Brooklyn, New York hospital.* While en route, an EMT...
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Afterword: Standing at the Lordean Shoreline
In the name of the known and unknown ancestors upon whose shoulders we stand… Today is the end of TFW’s global forum on Black Lesbian...
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Continuing the Celebration: Feminist Studies Celebrates Audre Lorde
Aishah Shahidah Simmons — my sister and comrade across miles and years, and the visionary behind the historic forum you’ve been reading for the...
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AUDRE LORDE — THE ETERNAL QUESTION
By Kalamu ya Salaam During the tumult of the seventies, in publications such as The Black Scholar and black World, I engaged with and eventually...
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Three Degrees of Connection
By C.C. Carter It’s what happens when generation “the studied” meets generation “the studier”—connection. We, some two thousand plus miles a part from each other,...
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Mockeries of Separation (a poem)
. by e nina jay “we must not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which we so...
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Feminists We Love: Gloria I. Joseph, Ph.D. [VIDEO]
A feminist is someone who is actively involved in the struggle against sexism. It’s as simple as that. That’s the bottom line. If you can’t...
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Audre Lorde and Spelman College
By Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy Sheftall I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, co-edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and...
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The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College
By Jerry Wever The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College in Atlanta is such a special seminar. This year marks the third offering...
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Personal is Political: Tribute to My Teacher and Friend Audre Lorde
By Melinda Goodman My writing is meant to be spoken out loud. My presence and the presence of the audience creates a sort of vibration...
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Broken Mothers, Shattered Daughters: For Women Who Have Loved and Survived [Trigger Warning]
By Amoni Thompson Broken mothers raising shattered daughters reflecting familiar suns. Little black girls like me were always in some kind of trouble. Whether we...
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Personal is Political: Speaking Power to Truth: Conversations With Sisters Around Audre Lorde
By El Jones “I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me....
