Family
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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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Don’t tell me about your nanny (unless you’re willing to put your money where your mouth is)
A recent Time magazine article on the “Invisible World of Nannies, Housekeepers, and Caregivers” by Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, prompted me to...
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Savita Halappanavar’s Bell Tolls for All Women
By Maria Faini and Kim Tran Thirty-one year old Savita Halappanavar died in late October from a miscarriage. News of her death haunts women around...
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Forgotten Victims: Domestic Violence Among Gay Men
By Rob Stephenson Here are the words of an abuse survivor, taken from the website of a support organization: “I told him I didn’t want...
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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,...
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Elizabeth Warren: Responsible Interracial Politics?
Elizabeth Warren, candidate for the Senate in a highly contested race against Tea Partyer Scott Brown in Massachusetts, has faced an unprecedented type of scrutiny...
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Secret Survivor: An Interview with Amita Swadhin
On the morning of July 16, 2012, I received a letter from Amita Swadhin, an activist and educator who is at the forefront of the...
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A Feminist Review of Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania is an animated movie about a hotel for monsters. The film starts by following the lives of two main characters, Mavis and her...
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Violence on the Border
By Laura Ilardo They say that the US-Mexico border is a very dangerous place. Surrounded by cactus, scrub, and hundreds of miles of dry desert,...
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Dutch Abortion Ship Heads for Morocco
Moroccan police Thursday escorted from its waters a small yacht carrying women’s rights activists claiming to be able to perform abortions on board, after anti-abortion...
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World Contraception Day
Today, September 26th, is World Contraception Day. And here at TFW, we invite you to consider what contraception has meant and may still mean to...
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On Motherhood and Surviving Sexual Violence
By Gretchen Davidson There are moments in life that lift a curtain and give us a glimpse of what is really propelling us through this...
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Up to 70% of women in Afghan prisons accused of 'moral crimes'
High-level Afghan government officials have for the first time publicly confirmed that it is not a criminal offense for women and girls to “run away”...
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We Have Always Known: Embodying Community Accountability
A review of Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, a special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order (Vol 37, No. 4,...
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I Was Raised By Welfare: A Defense of Social Safety Programs
By Bertha Alvarez Manninen A few houses down from my own, there sits a white Jeep parked in front of a middle-class suburban home. Every...
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U.S. Positive Women's Network devastated by murder of HIV-positive woman in Dallas
The U.S. Positive Women’s Network (PWN), a national membership body of women living with HIV, is devastated to hear the tragic news that a young...
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Storytelling: Or, Autoethnography in the Academic Industrial Complex
By Mejdulene B. Shomali When my sisters and I were young, we’d ask our father to tell us a story before bedtime. I’m not sure...
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On Michelle and Motherhood
Sarah Mantilla Griffin “And I say all of this tonight not just as First Lady…and not just as a wife. You see, at the end...