Politics
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Those Poor Muslim Women
By Josh Shahryar For the past several months, I’ve been bombarded by questions about what I think of Femen’s work in Tunisia. This happened after...
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Gender Policing the Vegan Woman
By Corey Lee Wrenn I have always used my Facebook account as a tool for social activism. Opening up oneself to the public world of...
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The Military Rape Problem is Not About Women or Sex
By Kari O’Driscoll I may be just one more voice in the wind when it comes to this issue, but I just can’t stay quiet...
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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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What You Don’t Know Can Kill You: Race, Class, and Access to Genetic Cancer Testing
By Duchess Harris and Christine Ohenewah When Professor Harris was in law school, she gave a presentation in her “Feminist Jurisprudence” course on a New...
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Why Every City Needs a Center Square: On the Turkish Uprisings, Coalition Building and Coexistence
By Evren Savci It has been almost two weeks since May 28th, when the residents of Istanbul started protesting the urban renewal project instigated by Turkey’s Prime...
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Op-Ed: Legal Birth Control: An Overlooked Milestone
By Annet Ruiter This month marks the 48th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut, which struck down a state law that...
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Are All the Women Still White? Kermit Gosnell, “Back Alley” Abortions, and the Politics of Motherhood
By j.n. salters Last week, Kermit Gosnell—the African-American “late-term abortionist” who delivered live babies and then stuck scissors in the backs of their necks and...
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Rhetoric We Don’t Believe In
By Eddie Glaude, Lester Spence, Imani Perry, Josie Pickens, David Leonard, and Kiese Laymon We come together to share our various thoughts and reactions to...
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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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Our Sister, Assata Shakur: Life, Struggle, Justice, and Love
By Lisa Brock and Beth E. Richie Feminist women of color activists and anyone who considers themselves our allies in the struggle for justice need...
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Feminists We Love: Assata Shakur (Love Note)
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “No one is going to give you the education you need...
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A is for Asylum
Assata do not dry like dissipated plums under castro’s bronzing sun you mural fortress you live memorial spirited artifice rouged sea salt that marinates america’s...
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Hands Off Assata!
By Angela Y. Davis I was one of those seasoned activists who were utterly taken by surprise when Assata Shakur was recently placed on the...
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An Introduction to TFW's Forum on Assata Shakur: America's Grammar Book on Black Women and Terrorism
Assata Shakur has been given many names over the past four decades. Her political allies in the 1970s struggle for black liberation knew her as...
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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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Building a Racial Justice Praxis
By Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz Have you ever had moments in your life that you know have changed you forever? Moments that shifted your consciousness, changed how you...
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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...