LGBTQI
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“Action Expresses Priorities”: The Sochi Olympics and a Culture of Complicity
The upcoming Sochi Olympics are already shrouded in violence and inequality. It is the Olympics after all, so the political, social, and cultural entanglements between the...
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Say No to Homophobia: The 2014 Russian Olympics
By Zillah Eisenstein I have recently returned from St. Petersburg, where nationalist thugs assaulted gay pride demonstrators in June of this year after Putin passed...
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Op-Ed: What We Can Learn from the 2014 Winter Olympics?
By Wade Davis II Every four years I look forward to the Olympics. To be honest, I’m not ultra enamored with the opening day pageantry...
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Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy (A conversation with editor Sekile Nzinga-Johnson)
Sekile Nzinga-Johnson is a BADDDDD sista in the Sonia Sanchez sense. She is a mother, educator, scholar, ruler of the roller derby scene as Malice...
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Disposable Children: Whiteness, Heterosexism and the Murder of Lawrence King
It isn’t until the end of director Marta Cunningham’s new HBO documentary film Valentine Road, the gut-wrenching chronicle of the 2008 classroom murder of 15...
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Sites of Violence: Why Our Notions of “Sex Positive” Feminism Are in Need of an Overhaul
While skimming through news a few weeks ago, I noticed that one of the current hot topics on feminist threads was the Cliteracy project, an...
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Fiction Flash: Lyssa in Limbo
By Michelle Auerbach (Excerpt from The Third Kind of Horse) I stared hard at Melody, at the blonde tips of her hair and I knew,...
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The Cape May Cross Culture Ferry
By Angela Dicks On July 6th, I traveled with my new wife, Kelly, from Washington D.C. to Cape May, N.J., for a short honeymoon. It...
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Your survival taught me how to love
By Anwar Uhuru Two years ago at a conference I met a man who changed my life. We were both in the audience and the panel...
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A Dialogue of Love: A Conversation on Freedom and Affect
By Marcie Bianco and J.T. Roane TFW Collective Member, Darnell L. Moore, delivered a talk titled, “What Freedom Feels Like: On love, empathy and pleasure in the...
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Dedicated to the next century of Queer Asian artists and activists
By Celeste Chan and Margaret Rhee Dear future ones: . They will say we have done nothing. ……….That we have no one, …………………no history, no...
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On Love, Action, and Lesbian-Feminism
By Julie R. Enszer Writing about lesbian-feminist publishers in the 1970s and 1980s, I am haunted. Often I wake with a fragment from a poem...
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Romantic Love – a Feminist Conundrum?
By Renata Grossi Romantic love has been read as a radical force capable of breaking down entrenched social barriers. Philosophers and sociologists have argued that...
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LGBTQ Film Feature: “U People” Fifth Anniversary Interview with Hanifah Walidah
Nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2010, U People is a music video, a documentary LGBT film, and a...
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Op-Ed: How to be Black in the Age of Obama, George Zimmerman, and Paula Deen: Notes from Summer, 2013
Welcome to the impossible future. White people are talking about race. Sometimes, they’ll even talk about racism. Some will say the word “racism” hesitantly,...
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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Reads at Nuyorican Poets Cafe for Fresh Fruit Festival NYC
Even as LGBT characters and “out” celebrities become more common in pop culture and mainstream media, the richness and complexity of real queer lives is...
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Carrying Trayvon’s Body: What is to be done?
By Shana Redmond To live in this world as Black people is to be confronted by the possibility of harm at every turn, to live...
