All posts by Darnell L. Moore
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Black Freaks, Black Fags, Black Dykes: Re-imagining Rebecca Walker’s “Black Cool”
Enter Scene: I am walking in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn—where we do more than die, by the way—rocking a close fade with two parts on the side,...
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Feminists We Love: Rahiel Tesfamariam
Rahiel Tesfamariam is an activist, writer, social commentator and public theologian. She is the Founder / Editor-in-Chief of UrbanCusp.com, a cutting-edge online lifestyle magazine highlighting progressive urban...
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Feminists We Love: Jamilah Lemieux
Jamilah Lemieux is the News & Lifestyle Editor for EBONY.com. In 2005, she created the award-winning blog, The Beautiful Struggler, where for more than six years, she published meditations on race...
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Black Feminist Intellectual: A Conversation with Professor Imani Perry
DM: At present, you hold a primary appointment as a Professor within the Center for African American Studies and a secondary appointment in Law and Public...
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Concluding TFW's Forum on World AIDS Day 2012
Today marks the conclusion of our Forum on World AIDS Day, but we are committed to making space for critical conversations on HIV/AIDS throughout the...
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Introducing TFW's Forum on World AIDS Day
I was in my early teens when an aunt shared that an estranged and presumably “gay” cousin, one whose name was the same as mine,...
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A Letter to Mis(s)-Education*
“Darnell, you can’t write.” I was an eighth-grade student at Morgan Village Middle School in Camden, New Jersey, when you, my Language Arts instructor, reprimanded...
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Michelle Obama's Speech and Its Subtle Appeal to Republican Values?
Michelle Obama’s speech during Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention gathering has provoked talk and tears, and rightly so—she delivered. Political insiders, media outlets, and convention...
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The Spaces Between Us: Off-site at the DNC, Jesse Jackson speaks of need to 'democratize democracy'
Downtown Charlotte is abuzz as Democratic National Convention delegates, media outlets, and big-name politicos make their way to caucus meetings and other preliminary events underway...
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TFW Interview: Keith Boykin on "For Colored Boys"
TFW Editorial Collective Member Darnell L. Moore recently caught up with Keith Boykin, political commentator and New York Times best-selling author, to discuss his newest book,...
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Coming Out or Inviting In?: Part II
Part II Recently, increased attention has been given to the notion of “coming out,” the public disclosure of one’s sexual identity. Many people are especially...
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Coming Out or Inviting In?: Part I
Increased attention has been given to the notion of “coming out” recently. Many people desire access into the private, sexual spaces of celebrities’ lives as...
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movement ii
Trace an out line of bodies in places other than center dis/lodged from we. use chalk: it...
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A Different Remembrance
I found, while thinking about the far-reaching world of the creative Black woman, that often the truest answer to a question that really matters can...
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TFW Forum on Women Filmmakers (Day 3)
TFW is excited to highlight the inventive work of several phenomenal women filmmakers in a three-day forum that ends today. Carmen Torres, tiona m., Aishah Shahidah Simmons,...
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TFW Forum on Women Filmmakers (Day 2)
TFW is excited to highlight the inventive work of several phenomenal women filmmakers in a forum that runs from Wednesday through Friday. Carmen Torres, tiona m., Aishah...
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TFW Forum on Women Filmmakers
TFW is excited to highlight the inventive work of several phenomenal women filmmakers in a forum that runs from today through Friday. Carmen Torres, tiona m.,...
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"The Word" in Two Movements
I. hands journeyed fast in search of ground mines trying to explode desire. mind welcomed hands but they journeyed this landscape like a kleptomaniac’s in...