Education
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Trayvon's Class of 2013
Last weekend, at Black Skeptics Los Angeles’ scholarship ceremony, my colleagues and I had the profound honor of giving scholarships to five brilliant youth of color who...
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A Statement on the Reclamation of All Black Life: For Trayvon, Marissa, & Jordan
By Brothers Writing to Live We begin this collective statement by proclaiming a truth that has been rehearsed on countless occasions by many before us: The...
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Assata IS Free
By Safiya Olugbala We would meet in the dreamworld where it was safe for me to ask you anything and no one would hear the...
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Coming Home.
By Happy Mwende Kinyili My name is Mwende and I am a woman. These identities – woman, Kamba, young, sweet – have come easy to...
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What Assata Means to Me
By Amira Davis The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., was, for me, a politicizing moment. It was then I realized, you could die for...
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On Assata
By Darol Kay I can’t quite pinpoint my first memory of Assata Shakur. Her story was not included in the endless number of VHS tapes...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Dear Assata: You Are More of a Woman than America Told You
By Christine Ohenewah Recent news about the FBI’s latest addition to their Most Wanted Terrorist list and the strong recommendation of my mentor prompted me...
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3 Reasons Why You Should Be Paying Attention to Moral Mondays in North Carolina
“Grotesque” is the word the New York Times used in an editorial today to describe North Carolina politics. I can think of some others. In...
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Dispatch from the 'Very House of Difference': Anti-Black Racism and the Expansion of Sexual Citizenship – OR – We Need to Do So Much Better at Loving Each Other
By Kai M. Green and Treva Ellison We (Treva and Kai) are Black, queer, trans, and anti-capitalist scholars, activists, and artists based in Los Angeles,...
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Gender, Race, And Going To Class: A Call For A Feminist Reading of For-Profit Colleges?
Most of us have seen the ads exhorting us to “call today!” to start on a new future with a college degree. How many of...
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In Conversation: On the Landmark SCOTUS Decisions, Single-Variable Politics and Movement Forward
By Timothy Patrick McCarthy and Darnell L. Moore Darnell: Tim, You have spoken and written publicly about the need—particularly on the part of white and economically privileged...
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The Princesses of Long Island: A Long Hard Post-Feminist Look in the Mirror
By Shoshanna R. Schechter-Shaffin Like blogger Lindsey Orlofsky, I too watched Bravo’s new series “The Princesses of Long Island” in horror. For those of you...
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A Feminist Education
By Emily Turner This past year, I’ve been working in a low-performing school in the South Bronx as an academic coach and mentor to a...
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Confession
By Nancy Kricorian Back when I earned my MFA in Poetry at Columbia, the majority of the students were women, and nearly all of our...
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Despite Apologies from Racist Frat, UC Irvine Black Students Stick to Demands
You might already know that a series of racist behaviors toward Black people recently brought national attention to University of California, Irvine’s (UCI) campus. A...
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Mad Science or School-to-Prison? Criminalizing Black Girls
High stakes test question: A female science student conducts an experiment with chemicals that explodes in a classroom, causes no damage and no injuries. Who...
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A Love Note to Sisters in Struggle
By Leah Sicat March 31, 2013 Dear Sisters, I have learned, over time, that it’s a man’s world in which some men hate women, some...
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I’m Complicated, Just like Feminisms: A Black and White Feminist Working It Out (Part II)
On Friday, April 26, TFW published Part I of a conversation between myself and Dr. Connie Ruzich about all things feminism, race, socioeconomic status, religion, and...
