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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State (Part I)
By Carolyn Tyjewski I’ve been an activist for decades, and always intentionally (and sometimes not) at the intersections of communities that are fighting similar battles. Whether...
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Collective Dreaming: An Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Almah LaVon
By Tala Khanmalek If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury,...
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5 poems by Khadijah Queen
I don’t remember how old I was when I saw Lou Rawls but we were on Wilshire somewhere with my mom & he drove a...
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Deconstructing the Arrest of Sandra Bland
By Erick A. Paulino By now, most people in the United States know who Sandra Bland is and the circumstances that led to her arrest...
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Why Did Sandra Bland Die? (And Why We Need a White Anti-Racist Feminist Posse)
By Zillah Eisenstein By now Sandra Bland’s name has been in the news for several weeks. A 28-year old Black woman is stopped by a...
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2 poems by Lee Ann Roripaugh
……………….tsunami battles the pink robots / french poststructuralist tsunami it’s such a pitiful bukkake those post-tsunami Roombas cooling down plant walls stripping...
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#SayHerName: #SandraBland is Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer
We interrupt our summer break to #SayHerName and to honor #SandraBland. Sandra Bland should not be dead but she may have taken her own life....
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3 poems by Darrian Wesley
Words Before Dying As my mother’s mother warned of her love when I confessed, gay: many have died for this. But to bullet...
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A poem by Amy Lukau
i always wanted to work on a cotton plantation. you know, somewhere in the deep south. close to cajun town but deeper toward the mouth...
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Act Out features TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis
Heidi R. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College and Associate Editor for TFW, was recently interviewed by Eleanor Goldfield on...
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2 pieces by Cherie Jones
In Memoriam I mourn my vagina, and miss her. My husband mourns her too. As things progressed, we’d used a special Morse when he...
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3 poems by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
THE MOON IS TRANS The moon is trans. From this moment forward, the moon is trans. You don’t get to write about the moon anymore...
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Return from ZombieLand: Academia, Substance Abuse, and Accountability
By Olubukola Yetunde Ogundipe On April 18th 2015, I was hospitalized due to an acute mental breakdown. While this episode was the first of its...
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Free Marissa Now and Stand With Nan-Hui: A Conversation About Parallel Struggles
Alisa Bierria, a member of the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign and a member of INCITE! and Hyejin Shim, an organizer with the Stand with...
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Memory and Violence: Old South Nostalgia in the Wake of the Emanuel AME Shooting
By Jamie Huff Since the recent killing of nine Black congregants at Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel AME church on June 17, debates about the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Hillary Clinton for President? Why She’s Not the Woman We Need
By: Aviva DeKornfeld Hillary Clinton is a woman and as it turns out, this is big news. Back in 2012, both Clinton and Barak Obama...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter to My Ex, Nude Picture
By Kaitlin Harris Dear Gilbert, I wanted to say thank you. Thank you for keeping my private pictures (from two years ago, no less!)...
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4 Poems by Carmen Giménez Smith
EPIGRAMS FOR A LADY If you hate it when your son is preternaturally boy, freight him with your trunk’s warp. A woman could form...
