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"Beasts of the Southern Wild": An Affective Review
I have a confession: I didn’t like Beasts of the Southern Wild. And I don’t fully understand why. Don’t get me wrong; there were a...
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Woman's Work
Depending on the promise, girls pack differently. Girls from the north, known for their beautiful pale skin created out of long winters will pack their...
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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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Able Normative Supremacy and the Zero Mentality
Within our neoliberal cultural imaginary, disabled people are rendered as bodies lacking agency. As a result, the measures of progress used to gauge the inclusion...
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Rethinking Women in Combat
By Kim Tran Last Thursday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta further integrated the armed forces by lifting a 1994 ban barring female service members from...
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A Black Feminist Comment on The Sisterhood, The Black Church, Ratchetness and Geist
There’s been much talk about TLC’s new show The Sisterhood, a reality show about the lives and struggles of Ivy Couch, Domonique Scott, Christina Murray, DeLana Rutherford,...
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Shades of Darkness—And Now A Sliver of Light
Today, January 26, 2013, marks India’s 64th anniversary as a republic. It is not an old republic if seen in “nation” years but definitely old...
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Choosing Our Own Lives: Two 40-Something Feminists Reflect on Roe
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica J. Casper [Over a two-day period, TFW Collective Members Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica J. Casper shared an e-dialogue...
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What We Aren’t Talking About When We Talk About Gun Control
In the wake of the Newtown shootings, the airwaves have been vibrating—often furiously—with conversations about guns. And as always in the United States, the issue...
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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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Gratefulness
The holiday season is not just about gifts and Santa Claus, it’s about being grateful for what you have and recognizing the people who are...
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Black Feminist Intellectual: A Conversation with Professor Imani Perry
DM: At present, you hold a primary appointment as a Professor within the Center for African American Studies and a secondary appointment in Law and Public...
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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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Lily and Michelle
By Cynthia Tavilla Our children will not meet our every expectation, fulfill our every dream, or follow our agenda. Our children live out their own...
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Proving Rape to Receive Public Assistance: Pennsylvania HB 2718
By Kalen Young Now that the adrenaline from November 6th has begun to wear off, I find my concentration turning to more localized legislation. My...
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Concluding TFW's Forum on World AIDS Day 2012
Today marks the conclusion of our Forum on World AIDS Day, but we are committed to making space for critical conversations on HIV/AIDS throughout the...
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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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HIV/AIDS in the Prison Industrial Complex
By Sandy Guillaume As the United States prepared to mark another World AIDS Day (WAD), I wondered to myself: What catchy slogan will be used...