Black Women
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TFW’s Sikivu Hutchinson and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Partner to Address Sexual Violence with Youth in South Los Angeles
On Friday, March 7, 2014, TFW Associate Editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons gave a presentation on the importance of naming and ending sexual violence with approximately 50...
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Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (Book Review)
By David B. Green, Jr. I have learned through the process of story telling and sharing that we all come from various walks of life...
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Nicki Minaj and Pretty Taking All Fades: Performing the Erotics of Feminist Solidarity
By Jillian Hernandez and Anya M. Wallace This essay aims to consider an erotics of feminist solidarity, not a solidarity that only decries the...
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Black History Remix: Nicki Minaj, Self-Defense, and Black Women’s Suppressed Histories
By Janell Hobson Just a few days before Valentine’s Day and in the midst of Black History Month, pop star and rapper Nicki Minaj...
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Why Is Academic Writing So Beautiful? Notes on Black Feminist Scholarship
By Emily Lordi The title of this piece responds to Joshua Rothman’s recent essay for the New Yorker blog, “Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?”,...
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Afterword: Standing at the Lordean Shoreline
In the name of the known and unknown ancestors upon whose shoulders we stand… Today is the end of TFW’s global forum on Black Lesbian...
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Continuing the Celebration: Feminist Studies Celebrates Audre Lorde
Aishah Shahidah Simmons — my sister and comrade across miles and years, and the visionary behind the historic forum you’ve been reading for the...
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AUDRE LORDE — THE ETERNAL QUESTION
By Kalamu ya Salaam During the tumult of the seventies, in publications such as The Black Scholar and black World, I engaged with and eventually...
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Three Degrees of Connection
By C.C. Carter It’s what happens when generation “the studied” meets generation “the studier”—connection. We, some two thousand plus miles a part from each other,...
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Mockeries of Separation (a poem)
. by e nina jay “we must not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which we so...
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Feminists We Love: Gloria I. Joseph, Ph.D. [VIDEO]
A feminist is someone who is actively involved in the struggle against sexism. It’s as simple as that. That’s the bottom line. If you can’t...
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Audre Lorde and Spelman College
By Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy Sheftall I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, co-edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and...
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The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College
By Jerry Wever The Audre Lorde Archival Research Seminar at Spelman College in Atlanta is such a special seminar. This year marks the third offering...
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Personal is Political: Speaking Power to Truth: Conversations With Sisters Around Audre Lorde
By El Jones “I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me....
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Audre Lorde Comes to Spelman College Archive 2009
By Opal Moore “I must always be/ building nests in a windy place” . Audre Lorde, “Portrait” . “Conduct your blooming in the noise...
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POSTSCRIPT: a love note
By Michelle Parkerson “Don’t mythologize me.” Audre Lorde (from the documentary, “A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL”) Consider this a love note never sent, Audre, for that...
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Love Note for Audre Lorde
By Jennifer Abod Audre was the first black lesbian feminist that I saw in the flesh. I had discovered her several years before in a...
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Collective, Reflective Conversation on Community, Liberation
by Sappho Fulton and Ness white This conversation was one part of my and Sappho’s joint multilayered and interdisciplinary performance assigned for Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s...
