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What My Mother Taught Me: Loving Self
By Kimberly George Now in the third decade of my life, I am realizing all the things my mother was right about. She was right...
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Poems by Lisa Ciccarello
from & if I die, make me how you are It is the sister inside him that makes him slow. She writes...
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Personal is Political: Get Your Hormones Out of My Body
I believe that any safe birth control option should be made available to anyone (male or female) who wishes to exert control over their reproductive...
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Anti-Imperial Feminist Musings in Morocco
By Zillah Eisenstein I traveled to Fez and Casablanca, Morocco, earlier this month to dialogue with Islamic Feminists there and to see, feel, and stretch...
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TFW’s Sikivu Hutchinson & Andrea Plaid at Atheists of Color “Moving Social Justice” Conference
On October 11-12, the People of Color Beyond Faith network and Black Skeptics Group will host the first annual “Moving Social Justice” conference at the...
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“I Am Because We Are: Ferguson, Family & Freedom” #FergusonFridays
“Where one is oppressed, none are free.” So said several of the signs I saw in Ferguson, Missouri, nearly 3-weeks ago today. My trip to...
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Feminists We Love: Hawa Y. Mire and Luam Kidane of NSOROMMA
When I asked Hawa and Luam who they were, Hawa said: “I’m a storyteller and organizer. My family moved from Somalia and I have grown...
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Elementary Feminisms: A Call to Young Women
By Shama Nathan Recently, I came across an old post that had quickly surfaced on Tumblr. The post was discussing the problem with teaching girls...
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Back Up, Back Off, and Listen
By Aaminah Shakur In the wake of a very public war in Ferguson, Missouri, following the murder by police of Michael Brown, the white power...
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Two Poems by Tsitsi Jaji
By Tsitsi Jaji Pause. (For All the Madibas)* There is a breath before the pendulum rends its center, A breath before what leapt...
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Personal is Political: An Open Letter to amerika
When people say racism doesn’t exist, they are blinded. They are blinded by the privilege and high property value that their skin possesses; they are...
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Where are the White Feminists? MIA on Racist Misogynist Police Violence
The Oklahoma NAACP recently called on the Department of Justice to investigate accused rapist and Oklahoma City Police officer Daniel Holtzclaw for federal hate crime...
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Op-Ed: Perspectives We Don’t Need and Those We Do
By Mirabel Ash In popular discourse, we have come to recognize individuals from dominant groups who advocate for civil rights and liberties on behalf of...
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#FergusonFridays: If it wasn’t for the women…[i]
The reality is that the women and girls are the fabric of the community and hold all together. The women usually think and work for...
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Feminists We Love: Toshi Reagon [VIDEO]
In today’s Feminists We Love feature, writer, performer and arts activist Toshi Reagon talks with TFW Associate Editor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about feminist lineages, the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Step One: Show Skin, Step Two: Praise Talent: A Look at Scarlett Johansson and the Film Industry
By Megan Felder I’ve always loved movies. A lot. Romantic comedy, sci-fi, superhero action – you name it, I will watch it. Perhaps that’s why...
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The Limits of Speaking on Catastrophe: Confessions of a Palestinian Teacher
By Diya Abdo I am a Professor of English at Guilford College. I am Chair of the English Department. I am a faculty member in...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Perseverance Conquers: An Open Letter
By Princess Harmony-Jazmyne Rodriguez The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and...
