History
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Is a picture worth a 1000 words? Race and the politics of mourning
Hank Willis Thomas A couple weeks back, Melissa Harris Perry and her guests discussed the power of images, focusing on the debate as to whether...
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Why Sebastien de la Cruz Should Be Respected and Protected
To be in proximity to any NBA franchise during a championship run, for lots of kids in our sports obsessed culture, is a dream come...
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Book Review: Marci Blackman's "Tradition"
By Quincy Scott Jones Town and Country: A Review of Marci Blackman’s Tradition (Water Street Press, 2013) In the most brilliant crimes stories, the detective must travel,...
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Assata the Unflinching
by Gregory L. Caldwell and Omar Ricks Dear President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, At the risk of running afoul of the PATRIOT...
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“Somebody’s Children”: A Conversation with Laura Briggs
By Kelly Sharron and Abraham Weil Laura Briggs is the chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. We...
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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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Film: "Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights" by Nevline Nnaji
Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights is a feature-length documentary that focuses on black women’s marginalization between the Black Power and Feminist movements, as...
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Across Difference, Toward Liberation: An Introduction to TFW’s Forum on Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism within Feminism
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Heather Laine Talley Perhaps in this twenty-four hour news cycle culture, the horrid sexist and racist sexualization of nine-year old...
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Western Novelist Paints a Racy Portrait of Middle Eastern Women in "Stoning the Devil"
By Jill Di Donato Stoning the Devil, a recent collection of interconnected stories set in the United Arab Emirates by writer Garry Craig Powell, dismantles the stereotype of...
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A Declaration: Toward A New Politics of Black Female Sexuality*
I want to begin this essay by declaring my stake and investment in the project of rearticulating and reframing narratives around Black female sexuality. I...
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An Open Letter to Amanda Marcotte
By Tara L. Conley Dear Amanda. Resting uneasily in this contentious, but necessary space, I write this letter to you. Gloria Anzaldúa calls it a...
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Sacrifice, Religion and Exclusion: On Parade in Little Saigon
By: Duane Bidwell In 1954, the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision made it clear that “separate” is not “equal” when it...
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Django in Philly
By Quincy Scott Jones On my last New Year’s Day in Philadelphia, I did what I always do on New Year’s Day in Philadelphia: I...
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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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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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Anne Braden: Defiant, Inspiring, and Self-Aware
Emblematic of a generation of men and women in the South that challenged their parents’ generation’s views on race, jobs, gender, sexuality, and a broader...
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E(race)sure, Queerness, and Civil Rights in the South: The Undocubus and the Legacy of Bayard Rustin
By Brittany D. Chávez As a queer woman of color artist-scholar-activist living in the U.S. South, I am deeply invested in historical legacies of queer...
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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...