Culture
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Exhuming the Ratchet before it’s Buried
Recently, social media was set ablaze after Oxygen revealed it was developing a reality TV show featuring rapper Shawty Lo (real name Carlos Walker) entitled,...
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TFW: The Year in Review
With the intertwined mission of fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives, 2012 gave our contributors no shortage of topics about which to write. We saw...
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Django Unchained: A Critical Conversation Between Two Friends
By David J. Leonard and Tamura A. Lomax There have been so many great discussions on Django Unchained, so many thoughtful and engaging articles, and even...
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In Defense of Pole Dancing
By Kira Jane Admitting to it causes the first onset of swine flu-like symptoms: the beads of sweat, searchlight eyeballs, shivers to rival a damp...
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Book Review: 101 Things That Are Not True About The Most Famous Black Women Alive
101 Things That Are Not True About The Most Famous Black Women Alive (ebook) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Reviewed by Sarah Mantilla Griffin The form...
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Black Survival in the Uchromatic Dark
By Tavia Nyong’o With all the rock dinosaurs that thundered the Madison Square Garden dome during Wednesday’s 12-12-12 benefit concert, a viewer might have missed...
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Poem Suite: Bodies
Have Your Own Timeless Edition Every Black Woman for Free By Naomi Extra Arrives unassembled See instructions enclosed: ...
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The Perpetual Dumb Girl
By Erika L. Sánchez Sometimes, when I have to walk past a group of teenage girls, I fear I’ll hear a version of the affected...
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TFW Poet Spotlight: Darrel Alejandro Holnes
By Darrel Alejandro Holnes Post-Racial You have been a vegan for years and are tired of fearful fishes trembling when you fly above, tired of...
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For the Women of Ciudad Juárez
In late September of 2012, we gathered at the site where the remains of eight murdered women and girls were found in an open...
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The Work, Frontline HIV Prevention Workers, & the Labor of Love Yet To Be Done
By: Lillian Rivera, MPH & Edgar Rivera Colón, PhD December 1st, World AIDS Day, represents a multitude of things to people involved in addressing and living...
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TFW Interviews an Expert in the HIV Prevention Field: Dr. David Malebranche
TFW: The theme for World AIDS Day from 2011-2015, which is “Getting to Zero: Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths,” is a...
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The Assembly
Queens, NY 1984 Nothing in P.S. 19 was ever heated enough. The auditorium, the cafeteria, the large windows with their pull-down plastic vinyl drapes rattled...
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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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Not the Belle of the Ball: Bernice, An Unconventional Girl About Town in Jennifer Lopez’s "South Beach Tow"
By Lillie Anne Brown It was, at first, a voyeuristic peek during an untailored pass-by, a fleeting look here, a backward glance there, one foot...
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Leaving Jesus: Women of Color Beyond Faith
By Sikivu Hutchinson The 24-hour prayer sessions are the true test of a warrior for Jesus. They require Herculean stamina, the patience of Job, the...
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Prometheus Unbound/Woman in Chains: Reading Popular Film through the ‘War on Women’ Framework
I love movies: all kinds. I majored in film technology and screenwriting as an undergraduate student; I minored in Cinema Studies. I grew up...
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“Can I Have Another Snack?” The Trials and Tribulations of Parents and Food
Food is always a challenge on the parental grind. Whether competing with commercials that highlight the nutritional value of the latest sugary cereal (food coloring,...
