Black Women
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Radical Birthwork as an Act of Resistance
By Ynanna Djehuty I like to open with definitions. The usage of words and knowing the weight they hold is important to all discourse, regardless...
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Untangling the Knots: Understanding the Hair Politics of Black Women (Revisited)
By Mazuba Haanyama My central aim involves the politics of bodily performance, in negotiation with shifting realities of a post-Apartheid context, where constructions of gender,...
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Poetic Justice: Drake and East African Girls
By Safy-Hallan Farah I am an East African Girl. A couple years ago, one of my friends told me that being an East African meant I’m...
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Feminists We Love: Kaila Adia Story
Kaila Adia Story (Ph.D., African American Studies & Women’s Studies Temple University M.A., African American Studies Temple University; B.A. Women’s Studies DePaul University) is an associate professor...
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Defense of Marriage: Racism, Family Values and the 99%
As the lead attorney for Proposition 8 trotted out the standard Christian fascist “marriage is only for procreation” party line before the Supreme Court yesterday,...
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Feminists We Love: Joan Morgan (Video)
Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist, author and a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The...
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Deadline Approaching: Call for Submissions for TFW forum on "Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminisms"
In 1979, Black socialist feminist lesbian writer, scholar, and organizer Barbara Smith stood in front of the National Association of Women’s Studies and said the...
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A Declaration: Toward A New Politics of Black Female Sexuality*
I want to begin this essay by declaring my stake and investment in the project of rearticulating and reframing narratives around Black female sexuality. I...
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Rethinking Masculinities: A Queer Woman of Color's Perspective
By Muna Mire Within our capitalist heteropatriarchial cultural imaginary, masculinity figures as a sort of psychomachia. This is to say, masculinity has proven itself to...
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Special Report: The Feminist Wire goes to the Commission on the Status of Women, or the CSW Through My Virgin Eyes
By Special TFW Correspondent, Mazuba Haanyama Week one is rapidly drawing to an end and I feel like I have been hit by a train; a...
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Taunts, Tweets, and Black Girl Genius
By Salamishah Tillet “Baby girl genius,” is what I muttered when I saw Quvenzhané Wallis shine bright on the television screen last Oscar Sunday night. Beaming...
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Race, Feminism and the Academy: I Got Out of Pocket
When The Onion called nine-year-old Oscar phenom Quvenzhané Willis a gendered, sexualized slur, like thousands of others I watched it unfold live on Twitter. In...
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Femmes, Pulling the Pieces Together: A Keynote Address by Pratibha Parmar
Last August, award-winning filmmaker Pratibha Parmar delivered a keynote address at FEMME Conference 2012: Pulling the Pieces Together, in Baltimore, Maryland. We are thrilled to...
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(Insert Witty Scandal-Related Title Here): Continuing the Dialogue
By Brandon T. Maxwell The following is an attempt to respond to some of the critiques of my article, “Olivia Pope and The Scandal of...
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Yes, brotha—come GET me!: A Black Feminist’s (Late) Response to Think Like a Man
I just finished watching Think Like a Man for the first time on Starz. I resisted going to see the film when it was released...
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Love In a Time of Scandal
By Brittney Cooper and Treva Lindsey The following conversation took place on Sunday, February 10th, 2013. What began as a Facebook conversation among several dynamic black feminists/womanists...
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Transit Violations: Locating the ‘Bus Rape’ in L.A. and Other Public Geographies of Violence
By: Asha Best I began writing this piece in late November 2012, but even in the process of returning to it and revising, reports of...
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Olivia Pope and the Scandal of Representation
By Brandon Maxwell On April 5, 2012 Shonda Rhimes premiered yet another television drama that would entice millions of viewers to faithfully return to their...
