Culture
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A Fly Girl: Black Sexual Politics and Beyoncé
By David J. Leonard and Kristal Moore Clemons A newly discovered horse fly by Australian scientist Bryan Lessard has become global media fodder. While usually not a...
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Lose like a Man: Who is Really Losing in the new Weight Watchers Campaign?
By David J. Leonard It seems that Charles Barkley is everywhere and that isn’t just because there are basketball games on each and every day...
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The Trouble with "Flip-flopping"?
Newt has taken to apologizing, but not for cheating on his wife as she was violently ill or participating in the Clinton witch hunts which...
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Why Jay-Z’s “Glory” Dedication to Blue Ivy Made this Black Man Cry
By Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. I was prepared to be scared for HOW hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and pop Diva Beyoncé would introduce their daughter, Blue Ivy,...
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Black Queer Gender and Pariah’s “Grand Swagger”
Three white women crowd the ticket window. “What is Pariah?” one asks, flustered. The ticket vender stammers. “It’s, uh, kind of a slice-of-life among kids...
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On Black/Brown Girlhood, Black Feminism, and the Arts: A Conversation with Aimee Meredith Cox and Ruth Nicole Brown: Part II
Introduction: TFW Editorial Collective member, Darnell L. Moore, recently facilitated an insightful and incite(ful) dialogue on Black/Brown girlhood with scholars/artists/activists Ruth Nicole Brown and Aimee Cox....
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On Black/Brown Girlhood, Black Feminism, and the Arts: A Conversation with Aimee Cox and Ruth Nicole Brown: Part I
Introduction: TFW Editorial Collective member, Darnell L. Moore, recently facilitated an insightful and incite(ful) dialogue on Black/Brown girlhood with scholars/artists/activists Ruth Nicole Brown and Aimee...
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For David Kato: A Love Poem: a Ugandan Gay Rights Activist, 1964-2011
By Joseph Ross Because my kisses are tender against your throat. Because my lips are not the steel hammer that snaps your neck...
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The Intimacy of Mentoring
Let me be clear: As a daughter of the working class and a first-generation college student, I would not be where I am today without...
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Why I Might Watch Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse
While Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse, a televisual extension of Why Did I Get Married and Why Did I Get Married Too, runs against...
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Criminal Fashions: The Hermeneutics of Hip-Hop Aesthetics
The hip hop aesthetic has recently made its way to the cover of Vogue Italia, one of the most influential magazines of the fashion world....
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Octavia McBride-Ahebee
The Japanese Teahouse To Greg Witcher I can now see the skirt hems of hants stitched by the hands of the living they keep with...
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Cheryl Clarke
one million black women and no mention of HIV/AIDS? vi. In this hostile corridor A quickening nostalgia suffuses me, this late evening fin...
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2011 World AIDS Forum: Featured Poet: Tim’m T. West
“medicine” how i do it this not-always-easy how i keep strong on weak(er) days is i think of the joy beckoning for me to...
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The Girls in The Band
The Girls in The Band, directed and produced by Judy Chaikin, Michael Greene, and Nancy Kissock, and edited by Edward Osei-Gyimah, literally screens in the...
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Soup Maker for the Masses
By S. Buchalter There was a time, that I was on the front lines or behind the fences, in the dark, at night, climbing over...
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Featured Filmmaker: Nev Nnaji
Nev Nnaji’s “Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights” reflects upon the marginalization of black women in the Black Power and Feminist movements and raises...
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“We Are More Loved Than We Know”: Masculinity, Feminism and the Love that Will Save Our Lives
June Jordan teaches that: “Love is lifeforce.” And the healing power of love has saved my life more than once. In the name of this...