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Front Line Defenders Dublin Platform Testimony
By Charlene Carruthers I gave this speech in Dublin, Ireland before the release of video showing the execution of Laquan McDonald by Chicago Police Officer...
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#Feministcare: TFW on winter break for the month of December
Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. And thank you for loving us and valuing our work. It’s been quite the year. As you...
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4 poems by Maged Zaher
* Making money takes time So is making sentences I pass by my thoughts of you They are satisfying Then eliminate the list of places...
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Nourishing for Disturbing and Disrupting: An Interview with Desiree Adaway
In world changing circles, self care might be the word of the year. Activists and artists, writers and teachers, organizers and trauma workers are transforming...
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A poem by John Pluecker
A Tree or Another or a Lover After Martin Buber and his English translator Ronald Gregor Smith I can look on a tree...
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Editorial
U.S. election politicking is distasteful even during the best of times. In our white supremacist, misogynist, xenophobic, capitalist nation—more oligarchy than democracy, further entrenched by Citizens...
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The Missing “P” in U.S. Anti-Trafficking Law
By Jennifer Suchland The three Ps of legislation and advocacy in anti-trafficking discourse are Prevention, Prosecution, and Protection. The “three Ps” emerged at the end...
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Charlie Sheen and Celebrity (HIV) Status
By Keiko Lane, MFT I didn’t want my work week to go like this, but by Monday afternoon it was clear that much of it...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Why Were We Laughing at Drake’s Dancing in “Hotline Bling?”: On Body Movement and Black Masculinity
By Lauren M. Todd In the past month, there has been a huge buzz of unabashed laughter at the Grammy-Award winner, Billboard Chart record breaker,...
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Poetry by Rebecca Lauren and Melissa Buckheit
Suffering by Melissa Buckheit This isn’t the answer. The answer is my hand on the table, saying what we thought privacy was, on your...
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White Nights, Black Paradise new novel on Jonestown by TFW’s Sikivu Hutchinson
On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, a Black multiracial church, died in a Guyana jungle settlement named after the church’s...
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Collective Statement on Precarity and the Demand for Feminist Accountability in NWSA, 2015
STATEMENT TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S STUDIES ASSOCIATION ~~~ In the aftermath of the 2015 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference focused...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, I Am A “Failure” To China, But Let’s “Fail” Together
By Yaqing Yang I’ve grown a “failure” to my Dad and “lost” to my Mom and Gram. Yesterday, I read an article published by BuzzFeed...
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In Support of Black Girls’ Defiance
By Connie Wun Much of mainstream America witnessed the police brutality that took place at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina, in which a Black...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Dear Communities: In Lieu of a Conclusion to the “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival
Dear Communities: We are grateful for your engagement with this Forum over these past two and half weeks—reading, comments, and sharing with others. Your interest...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, End to Beginning
By Sa Fa *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* and then one day you finish your...
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#shoutyourabortion
By Britta Child ‘Tis true, I had been careless for far longer than my allotted grace period when I found out I was pregnant. Years of...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, for the professor who hurt me & got away with it
By Martina “Mick” Powell *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* i will let you have this...
