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TFW’s Co-Managing Editor Darnell L. Moore for USA Today
MEET DARNELL. THE 39-YEAR-OLD IS A SPEAKER, EDUCATOR AND WRITER. The four short video segments below are for a special Black History Month Series on...
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Poetry by deborah brandon
on my modern maidenless voyage, i’m stitched onto the sky. the boy next to me on the plane spills his sugar all over the boy...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Cops Can’t Come Here: How A Predominantly White Institution Is My Safe Haven
By ray(nise) cange Preface: I started this piece before Mike Brown. Before we were protesting for our rights. I started this one day after running...
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Moving Images: On Queerness and Eritrean Identity
By Hel Gebreamlak Masculinity was the last thing I learned how to do. I wasn’t one of those baby dykes who literally knew in utero....
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Policing Our Girls, Taming ‘Topsy’
“Let them haul the little monster out of school and into jail”. These were the words of a commenter on CNN.com’s site responding to...
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Personal is Political: Dismantling Racism and White Supremacy Must Come from Within
Too often when the rubber hits the road with anti-racist white people being held accountable by Black/Latin@/Asian/Indigenous/Arab peoples for their OWN acts of covert and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Divergence
By Brianna Suslovic You took me to my first protest when I was in the first grade, Mom, a peaceful affair outside the federal...
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TFW’s Brooke Elise Axtell to Perform with Katy Perry at Grammys
TFW's Brooke Elise Axtell will perform with Katy Perry at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 8, 2015 at the Staples Center...
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We Walk Among You: Poverty in the Ivory Tower
By Zoel T. Rodriguez I was in class today talking about poverty. We were discussing public benefits. Or rather, something having to do with poverty...
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Op-Ed: Black Trans Women to the Front!
by janaya (j) khan In the first month of the new year, three Black trans women have been murdered in the United States. Many of you...
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Poetry by Jos Charles
. BOTTOM FEED to demand is to be wet with so many eyes. i wanna be dickfucked in the face until my dough...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Precious Life
By Sarah de Schweinitz The first thing I notice in this advertisement is the model’s closed eyes. She appears to be either sleeping...
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Top Yoga Studios Unite to Racially Profile Black “Yoga Thief”
By Sabrina Strings His picture was not to go unnoticed. It was planned that way. Flyers showing his face were posted prominently; one was under...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Three Poems to End Domestic Violence
By Stephanie Carter under his control sweet lullabies, he watches you dreaming. only so he can destroy them when you hit reality, as...
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3 poems by Tamiko Beyer
Water stilled is not a dying sound One bee clambers into a rose, then another—together they bump and buzz the bloom heavy with pollen...
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TFW’s Mecca Jamilah Sullivan at Kweli / NY Times African Heritage Reading Series
Join TFW Associate Editor MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN (author of Blue Talk and Love), LASHONDA KATRICE BARNETT (author of Jam on the Vine), and TIPHANIE YANIQUE (author...
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Mourners for Black Queer and Trans Lives Attacked by Castro Bar
by QTPOC Liberation “We are here because the gay community has been silent. We need you in the streets with us. We honor the lives...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Buff, Black, Tattooed, and Feminist: On the Utility of a Bro-Feminist
By Marquis Bey A feminist friend of mine—a 4’10” queer white woman—jokingly mocks my “bro-ness,” that is to say, my proclivity to throw around weights...
